Go on, take all the umbrage
So a few days back, angry asain man said:
Whether you're for or against affirmative action, I think it goes without saying, it's a lot more complex than just giving out cookies and donuts. I don't know, what would be a more accurate simulation? How about having minority actually gather all the ingredients and baking the cookies, then having the white students take all the cookies away, and selling them at the given prices? Probably still not quite accurate, but it's just a thought.
He's writing about this CNN story, Bake sales used to protest affirmative action:
SEATTLE, Washington (AP) -- Campus bake sales by conservatives who oppose affirmative-action are cooking up discord -- and complaints about restrictions on free speech.Organizers charge white students $1 for a cookie, while blacks and other minorities pay 25 to 95 cents. Doughnuts are available for 50 cents to everyone except Asian Americans and whites, who cannot purchase them.
Unfair? So is affirmative action, organizers contend.
Second (at least) cycle on this -- remember Dru mentioning something similar a while back -- but I don't recall the bit about Asian Americans being mentioned in the others. Wasn't reading the stories that closely, to be honest. Manufactured whiteboy controversy tends to bore the hell out of me. One of the reasons it's hard to get into pop music these days, too, but that's a different story. Entry. Something.
Is a bit amusing watching them take umbrage on behalf of Asian Americans, though. There's a photo of "Members of the University of Washingon College Republicans" with the CNN story; take a guess what race and gender they are. No, no, go on, guess.
Perhaps the Ladies Auxiliary did the actual baking. . .
Off to look for polling data on Asian American reactions to Affirmative Action. If dim memory serves me a'right, they (because, y'know, they're a homogenous group) were generally in favor.
Comments
Until they have an alumni bake sale the affirmative action bake sale is just an empty albeit hostile gesture. Take a look at the stats for any given school (which are public record if it's a state or otherwise public school) and compare the number of admissions based on alumni status versus the number on any affirmative action measure.
I've been meaning to give the Young Republicans grief on par with the ass pains I've given the Libertarians (the president of aforemention actually wears a "Taxation Is Slavery" t-shirt with an entirely straight face) on campus. Since their activities are funded by student funds maybe they should be the first to pull themselves up by their bootstraps and tap those trust funds.
All bitterness in this comments is a product of your overactive imagination.
Posted by: goneaway | December 31, 2003 1:15 AM
What are taxes? Muahhhhhhhahahahahahah! Having whitey in a long term lease (read: indefiinite) has its perks.
Posted by: uppity-shinob | December 31, 2003 11:17 AM
The conservative push on these so-called civil rights intiatives is puzzling. How did explicitly anti-black policies come up on their laundry list alongside banning abortion? Don't they know racism is supposed to be pervasive but subtle? They must have lost that part of the compasionate conservatism memo.
I don't know how many readers of this blog were watching the GOP convention last time but when Colin Powell got up and spoke and put a big old high five for continuation of affirmative action in his speech, it was awesome. It was so quiet in the hall you could hear someone clearing their throat and maybe two or three interns in the back row clapping. I was busting a gut at my house back in Michigan. Powell stored up a lot of good will from me on that one.
Posted by: Evan | February 15, 2004 10:58 PM