Dude, that is exactly what you should like ... higher prices for whites.
Man, you better hope Obama doesn't see this ... he'll make Government Motors charge you more for your next car than people of color.
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Racist Cupcakes? Berkeley Erupts over Affirmative Action Satire
September 27th, 2011 - 2:26 pm
The U.C. Berkeley College Republicans struck a national nerve today by holding a bake sale with racially discriminatory pricing: Higher prices for white and Asian students, lower prices for black, Hispanic and female students. Why the intentional discrimination? To protest a pending new statewide law which attempts to re-introduce Affirmative Action into university admission standards, something that was been banned years ago with California’s popular Constitutional amendment requiring race-neutral admissions.
The purposely inflammatory gag was very clever: the goal was to make everyone point out how racist the cupcake prices were, at which point the young Republicans reply, “Exactly! Racial discrimination is unfair. Thanks for making our point for us!”
But the leftists on campus and around the state instead flew into a blind rage: The joke was too effective, so Affirmative Action proponents simply pretended to “not get it.” Accusations of racism flew back and forth and before anyone knew it we had a major FUBAR situation on our hands.
The racist bake sale was today, so I will use this post to roll out photos and videos of the sale and counter-protest as they become available. Keep refreshing the page throughout the day for more and more coverage!
The Berkeley College Republicans set up their table on U.C. Berkeley’s legendary Sproul Plaza, birthplace of the Free Speech Movement and the place where all campus clubs host recruitment tables. By the time I showed up at 10am, there were already hundreds of protesters swarming around the table.
One of the young Republicans carried a sign with the discriminatory menu. Shock!
This 7-minute video montage contains several short interviews with various people at the protest, and really contains almost everything you need to know about the event. I alternate back and forth between College Republicans explaining their point, and counter-protesters trying to explain, uh, well, something or other. Almost all of these clips are “piggybacking” on interviews that other reporters did of the various people shown; whenever one camera would come out to record an interview, several additional cameras would usually appear out of nowhere to get a free ride. Some of the clips were taken by me, and some by others who sent their videos to me.
However you slice it — it’s video gold not to be missed!:
The Berkeley College Republicans were not all “white” as most people assumed; they included members of all races.
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I don’t know how they made these double-reverse satirical t-shirts so fast!
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There have been altogether too many accusations of racism and not enough accusations of sexism in this whole debate. Time to rectify matters! Let’s get sexist.
They’re so rarely in the same vicinity that one seldom gets a chance to compare the two groups. So, which do you prefer:
 
Republican chicks? Or…
…Communist chicks?
All sorts of white people were railing about the evils of “white privilege.” In this case, the protester was making a sarcastic commentary on the Republicans: “Defend White Privilege.”
“You represent Elitism,” this privileged white male declares.
Elsewhere, a (presumably) gay student was greatly offended that the discriminatory price list didn’t also insult and degrade queers. No fair! If you Republicans aren’t sufficiently bigoted against us, then we’ll lose relevance! By leaving any mention of us out of your bake sale, you discriminated against us by not discriminating against us!
Racial arguments raged at the Republicans’ table, but amazingly tempers remained for the most part under control, as the Republicans stayed on message and wouldn’t get baited into name-calling.
It’s a hobby of mine to notice little details in every picture. In the image above, at the very top edge, was this lonely student all by herself at the periphery of the protest, holding up a sign saying “This is wrong.” Poignant, in a way.
I tried to get an overall crowd shot to show just how huge the protest had become. Not sure if this conveys it very well, but in any case: big.
And despite all the crowds, the other worthy student groups lining Sproul Plaza were almost totally ignored. The “Abolish Sex Trafficking” booth, for example, had no traffic whatsoever, sex or otherwise. Those damn Republicans: now they’re causing an increase in sex trafficking as well!
Egotistical scuzzball Michael Delacour, a surviving remnant of the 1969 People’s Park riots in Berkeley and a notorious character in local legend, planted himself directly in front of the table for an entire hour, ranting “I am an elder! You must respect me!” Everyone tried to ignore the delusional bum and eventually he wandered away.
[MORE TO COME SOON, including videos! Stay tuned, and keep refreshing the page.]
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