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Smashing Affirmative Action -- Bake Sales
FrontPageMagazine.com ^ | 10/15/03 | Jason E. Chambers

Posted on 10/15/2003 1:31:19 AM PDT by kattracks

Once again, a politically correct university has shut down conservative speech on campus.

On Wednesday, October 7, the College Republicans at the University of Washington struck at UW's racist admission policies by holding an Affirmative Action Bake Sale. We priced cookies differently for people, depending on their race. (A black student could buy a cookie for 30 cents, while a white student had to pay a dollar, etc.). We priced the cookies according to the same categories the University of Washington uses in its admission application. With a little flour, sugar and a dash of street comedy, we set out to show the campus that Affirmative Action, which judges people based solely on their skin color, is inherently racist.

We succeeded in creating a discussion on campus, as word spread around campus of what we were doing,. For a few hours, we had heated-yet-civil discussion of Affirmative Action policies.  Well over 100 students gathered to voice their opinion son affirmative action policies, and literally dozens of conversations took place on issues of national importance broke out.

Early in the afternoon, we were warned by a few students that we had just ten minutes to shut down our booth “or else.”  We declined to heed their ultimatum. Approximately 150 students were gathered around our booth discussing the issue by about 12:30 in the afternoon, when our booth was finally attacked by leftists. These "sensitive" left-wing students tore down our signs, threw our baked goods and literature off the table and attempted to tear down our tent. One College Republican tried to salvage a few boxes of cookies from the table, but the "peaceful" activists got to the goods first and struck the Republican in the head with a flying cookie.

Fortunately, a College Republican had called the police a few minutes prior to the attacks, when a few conversations had become heated, afraid the Left would incite violence (and the Left did not disappoint).  Rather than step in and arrest our attackers, the police stood by while the University said we, the peaceful ones, had to be shut down because we had created an unsafe environment. I explained that the attackers, not the College Republicans, had engaged in vandalism and assault with a deadly pastry; we simply tried to get a dialogue started, a task we had undertaken successfully before the two misfits interrupted. Our protests fell upon deaf ears, and the university forced us to close shop, just as the Southern Methodist University bake sale had been shut down.

Regardless of the administrators' best attempts to stifle our right to free speech on this leftist university, we will continue our fight.  We are protesting the fact that we were physically attacked and then shut down, a perfect case of blaming the victim. We will call upon the university to grant us our First Amendment right to assemble peacefully, to make certain we are kept free from molestation by violence-prone leftists and to take action should we ever be physically targeted in the future.  The College Republicans will do everything we can to stir dialogue on this campus -- something the university should applaude. The fact that it has chosen to shut us down rather than encourage our efforts, to punish the idealists rather than the activists, only shows how much the campus environment needs academic balance.

Jason E. Chambers is president of the University of Washington's College Republicans.



TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bakesale; collegebias; collegerepublicans

1 posted on 10/15/2003 1:31:20 AM PDT by kattracks
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To: kattracks
Nice. Hope they keep up the good fight.
2 posted on 10/15/2003 1:38:50 AM PDT by DeuceTraveler
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To: kattracks
Is Lt. Col. Dominic Caraccilo involved in these bake sales?
3 posted on 10/15/2003 1:39:02 AM PDT by Ready4Freddy (Veni Vidi Velcro)
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4 posted on 10/15/2003 1:39:32 AM PDT by Support Free Republic (Your support keeps Free Republic going strong!)
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5 posted on 10/15/2003 1:39:40 AM PDT by Sactivist
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6 posted on 10/15/2003 2:15:13 AM PDT by Sactivist
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To: kattracks
Ever heard of a video camera?
7 posted on 10/15/2003 2:23:54 AM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: kattracks
The last thing on earth that democrats will allow is free speech. Hence the endless attacks on the genuinely small market share outposts of fair and balanced reporting: Fox, talk radio, and (dare I say) the tiny audience of Free Republic.

We are voices crying out in the wilderness.

8 posted on 10/15/2003 4:31:59 AM PDT by friendly (Man is so made that whenever anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish.)
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To: kattracks
Sell the cookies on-line too. I'll buy a dozen.

9 posted on 10/15/2003 6:32:04 AM PDT by YourAdHere (I see dead people....and they're voting for democrats)
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To: kattracks
The College Republicans will do everything we can to stir dialogue on this campus -- something the university should applaude. The fact that it has chosen to shut us down rather than encourage our efforts, to punish the idealists rather than the activists, only shows how much the campus environment needs academic balance.

Diversity of color, uniformity of thought. MLK must be so proud! Next time, put up signs with quotes from MLK around your table and videotape them tearing them down. Should play well on the local news!

10 posted on 10/15/2003 7:10:08 AM PDT by SpinyNorman
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To: friendly
To Democrats, free speech is a one way street. They state the reason this isn't true is because they say it isn't. But they prove it by actions like their behavior at the bake sale.

They really get upset when we show them for the hypocrites that they are. The one way traffic street sign must remain covered at all costs.
11 posted on 10/15/2003 7:48:32 AM PDT by Hillarys Gate Cult ("Read Hillary's hips. I never had sex with that woman.")
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To: BartMan1; Nailbiter
Great stuff.
12 posted on 10/15/2003 7:51:35 AM PDT by IncPen
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To: kattracks
We will call upon the university to grant us our First Amendment right to assemble peacefully,

No university can grant this right, it is already in the Bill of Rights. The university has the duty to protect the right of free assembly.

13 posted on 10/15/2003 7:59:13 AM PDT by pbear8 ( sed libera nos a malo)
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To: kattracks
Next time they should ask a few linemen from the football team to show up and stand behind the booth. Offer them free cookies (as a capitalistic form of fee for services) and the opportunity to pile-drive a leftist for tackle practice.
14 posted on 10/15/2003 8:49:11 AM PDT by usurper
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To: pbear8
The Right of Assembly is granted by almighty God; the Bill of Rights only acknowledges this fact.

The University's job is to protect the rights of free persons....

15 posted on 10/15/2003 9:09:33 AM PDT by BartMan1
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16 posted on 10/15/2003 2:09:29 PM PDT by Hobsonphile (Art should celebrate God's creation. Writers should love humanity in all its forms.)
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To: Hillarys Gate Cult
They really get upset when we show them for the hypocrites that they are. The one way traffic street sign must remain covered at all costs.

Good image, perfect.

17 posted on 10/15/2003 2:13:33 PM PDT by friendly (Man is so made that whenever anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish.)
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