Berkeley Bake Sale Reveals the Fraud of Affirmative Action | FrontPage MagazineAt the University of California Berkeley, Berkeley Campus Republicans (BCR) are planning to reprise a concept designed to demonstrate the absurdity of race and gender quotas. An “Increase Diversity” bake sale in which the price of goods sold will be based on one’s gender or race is scheduled for tomorrow from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Sproul Plaza. The sale is in response to SB 185, a bill introduced by Democratic state Senator Ed Hernandez in February of 2011, which asks the California State University “to consider race, gender, ethnicity, and national origin, along with other relevant factors, in undergraduate and graduate admissions.” The bill is currently awaiting the signature of California Gov. Jerry Brown.
The sale will feature the following price structure for all baked goods: $2 for white people, $1.50 for Asians, $1 for Latinos, 75 cents for African-Americans, and 25 cents for Native Americans. Women of all races get a discount of 25 cents off those prices.
“The pricing structure is there to bring attention, to cause people to get a little upset,” said Campus Republican President Shawn Lewis, who planned the event, told KGO-TV in San Francisco. “But it’s really there to cause people to think more critically about what this kind of policy would do in university admissions.”
Mr. Lewis revealed that the backlash to the Facebook posting of the event was far greater than anticipated. ”We didn’t expect the volume, the amount of response that we got,” he said. “In the first few hours, hundreds of posts on our Facebook page. And the tone of some of the responses–we expected people to be upset. We didn’t expect personal threats to be made. They were implicit and explicit threats made to the organizers of the event, from burning down the table to throwing our baked goods at us and other kinds of physical threats.”
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Threats should be expected when truth and hypocrisy are exposed.
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