Racist Cupcakes?

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Racist Cupcakes? Berkeley Leftists Blow Gasket over Affirmative Action Bake Sale

Posted on September 27, 2011 at 10:52pm by Tiffany Gabbay Print »Email »

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The highly anticipated “Increase Diversity Bake Sale” organized by U.C. Berkeley College Republicans finally took place on Tuesday — and with explosive results.

The bake sale, which based its price structure on race — higher pricing for white and Asian students, lower pricing for black, Hispanic and female students – was intended to expose the hypocrisy of proponents of CA Senate Bills 185 and 387, that seek to re-introduce Affirmative Action by allowing the university system to base student admissions on ethnicity.

The pricing structure was as follows:

$2.00 for White/Caucasian

$1.50 for Asian/Asian American

$1.00 for Latino/Hispanic

$.0.75 for Black/African American

$0.25 for Native American

$.025 off for all Women

Last week The Blaze explained the College Republicans’ intent:

“Just like the CA Senate Bills 185 and 387 the phone bank supports, we will be considering race, gender, ethnicity, national/geographic origin and other relevant factors to ensure the equitable distribution of baked goods to our diverse student body,” the College Republicans wrote in a Facebook announcement publicizing the event, set for Tuesday. “Hope to see you all there! If you don’t come, you’re a racist!”

Well, come they did — and in droves. Angry ones.

The obviously satirical bake sale was meant to make people take note of how racist the cupcake prices were, to which the College Republicans would reply, “that’s our point, it’s the same as SB 185 and 387!”

Berkeley leftists, perhaps too conveniently, failed to make the same association however, and instead descended on the bake sale en masse — and in a blind rage.

According to blogger Zombie, who attended the event, the arguments, hostility and cries of “racism” from Affirmative Action advocates flew:

To everyone’s amazement, the College Republicans did not back down, despite massive condemnation from the ASUC (the student government) and worldwide accusations of racism being hurled at them. In fact, they held their own in the arguments pretty well, because practically every single opponent fell face first into the simple logical trap the Republicans had set: If you think the pricing scheme is “racist,” because it discriminates according to ethnicity, then you must also think that Affirmative Action is racist, since it does exactly the same thing!

Even the Campus Communists came out in a show of solidarity to protest the bake sale.

For more on this outrageous story and to view additional photos of the debacle, please visit Zombie’s blog.

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Posted on September 27, 2011 at 11:24pm

Actually, the libs/progs are right.. Without help from the legislature they don’t stand a chance in a fair system.. They’re obviously handicapped and challenged in every intellectual sense and work very hard to prove it.. What they are saying, loudly, vociferously, violently and consistently is; ” We are unable to compete in the system without being given an advantage.. We are losers and fools and you must make up the difference for what we are unable to do on our own

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/racist-cupcakes-berkeley-leftists-blow-gasket-over-affirmative-action-bake-sale/

[jaman]

this is so true, I worked at minnesota zoo maintenance and I made a comment about how long 2 women were taking on breaks sometimes up to 40min ,how I know this we all take our breaks together,guess who got fired ?I called 3 different LAWYERS and got the same response.... because I was a white male I could not sue for wrongful termination and I quote "because I was NOT under the endangered species list..meaning ....I was not black, handicap.or female ,It was a real eye opener

[Caye98]

John Stossel did a similar event in November 2010:

http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2010/11/10/john-stossel-affirmative-action-cupcakes-asians-whites-blacks-latinos-bucknell/

[jgreene]

John Stossel did a similar event in November 2010:

http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2010/11/10/john-stossel-affirmative-action-cupcakes-asians-whites-blacks-latinos-bucknell/

it is hell being a white middle class male in this country....you get to foot the bill for everything...get no goodies....and get called a racist if you hesitate to write the check....

[john1234]

The highly anticipated “Increase Diversity Bake Sale” organized by U.C. Berkeley College Republicans finally took place on Tuesday — and with explosive results.

I'm surprised to see that there is a young Republicans group at Berkeley--maybe there is hope for our country!

[ems]

I'm surprised to see that there is a young Republicans group at Berkeley--maybe there is hope for our country!

Michael Savage is a Berkeley graduate. While he is no longer young, many youngsters listen to him. The Young Republicans group at UC Berkeley shows that there's definitely hope for our country!