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College bake sales by conservatives who oppose affirmative-action spark conflict
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Posted on 12/24/2003 6:46:18 AM PST by Sub-Driver
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To: TankerKC
She'll probably go to law school and be earning $125,000 a year by her 25th birthday...
To: Sub-Driver
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posted on
12/24/2003 7:42:27 AM PST
by
RJCogburn
("Everything happens to me. Now I'm shot by a child."...Tom Chaney after being shot by Mattie Ross)
To: TankerKC
Well, Bobby, where do you plan to work with a degree like that?With Jesse jackson.
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posted on
12/24/2003 7:43:32 AM PST
by
expatpat
To: Sub-Driver
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posted on
12/24/2003 7:53:08 AM PST
by
mc5cents
To: Sub-Driver
"UW spokesman Robert Roseth said the administration had nothing to do with the shutdown. The group's members dismantled the booth voluntarily after the office of student affairs asked them if they wished to take it down, he said."
I've had police 'ask me if I'd like to pullover' & I guess I did it voluntarily.
But as best I understand it, 'the administration' did have something to do with it.
That and the guns (or expulsion, probation, arrest, having cookies thrown at you and your booth torn down), they had something to do with it too.
Nothing quite like the polite threat of force to resolve political (or traffic) matters.
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posted on
12/24/2003 7:56:02 AM PST
by
norton
To: Sub-Driver
Bake sales don't spark conflict. Affirmative action does.
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posted on
12/24/2003 7:58:51 AM PST
by
MichiganCheese
(Does the PC crowd know that holiday is derived from HOLY DAY?)
To: TankerKC
The degree requirements include a 3 semester hour course in saying "Would you like fries with that?" in 30 languages.
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posted on
12/24/2003 8:08:57 AM PST
by
thulldud
(It's bad luck to be superstitious.)
To: Sub-Driver
<< College bake sales by conservatives who oppose affirmative-action spark conflict >>
Bullshit.
The envy-motivated and hatred and rage-engined, systemic, lunatic-left-wing "liberals'" mean-spirited bigotry, illogic, intolerance -- and inability to communicate other than verbalized bowel movements -- sparks the conflicts.
The guys who are, thank God for them, running these bake sales all over America, were just having a bake sale.
Employing liberalism's rules.
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posted on
12/24/2003 8:12:58 AM PST
by
Brian Allen
( Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God - Thomas Jefferson)
To: Sub-Driver
Not surprising, liberals only believe in free speech when they are speaking
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posted on
12/24/2003 8:34:05 AM PST
by
Cubs Fan
To: Ignatz; Ronly Bonly Jones
Well, gee whiz guys - I know Thor is on the conservative side here, and nothing I said is intended to imply I want to abridge his right to free speech. How could you come to that conclsuion ??
Of course, he can exercise that right "badly" if he chooses to do so. Perhaps it was an inadvertent mistake, a hip-shot slip of the tongue. I sure hope so.
It's just that spokesmen for any cause are far more effective when they speak and write articulately - and when it's a cause I believe in personally, I want them to be as articulate and effective as possible. Can you imagine Patrick Henry making such a statement ??
Thor's gaffe is more than a 'grammatical imperfection,' it is a complete malaprop a la Yogi Berra.
Lighten up - where's your sense of humor ??
To: smith288
Irish, Roman, Greek -- facial profiles.
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posted on
12/24/2003 8:46:25 AM PST
by
bvw
To: thulldud
The degree requirements include a 3 semester hour course in saying "Would you like fries with that?" in 30 languages.Colleges have stepped up to the challenge and realized that not all of their lib'ral arts graduates will end up in the culinary trades. In response to feedback from their alumni, "language arts" classes have included training in the following arenas:
Nutritional Distribution:
"Can I start you out with a yummy appetizer?"
"How would you like that cooked?"
"Ranch, Thousand Island, Blue Cheese or Italian?"
Micro-banking:
"Do you have a club card?"
"Can I see your driver's license?"
"Would you like to fill out a credit application and save 10%?"
Small Systems Manager:
"Thank you for calling _________; how may I direct your call?"
"Paging _______, you have a call on line 1"
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posted on
12/24/2003 8:48:02 AM PST
by
randog
(Everything works great 'til the current flows.)
To: Sub-Driver
"The statements of the UW College Republicans in putting on a bake sale about affirmative action were tasteless, divisive and hurtful to many members of the university community," he (UW Board of Regents President Jerry Grinstein) wrote.
Affirmative action is "tasteless, divisive and hurtful" to all members of our society, particularly those who are believed to be unable to succeed without it (and taught to believe that about themselves) and who will never have the chance to find out what they are truly capable of on their own.
It is so extremely condescending to those it purports to help and is or should be just as offensive to them (or more so) as it is to the people against whom it discriminates.
To: Sub-Driver
If anyone offended by these bake sales had a sprinkling of brains they would have just bought everything at the discounted price and the "bake sale" would have been over.
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posted on
12/24/2003 8:54:02 AM PST
by
Just another Joe
(FReeping can be addictive and helpful to your mental health)
To: Sub-Driver
guess they made their point. The university should provide a couple of cops to protect their right to free speech.
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posted on
12/24/2003 8:56:15 AM PST
by
breakem
To: mc5cents
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posted on
12/24/2003 9:04:35 AM PST
by
spodefly
(This is my tagline. There are many like it, but this one is mine.)
To: TonyRo76
These Affirmative Action bake sales IMO are a brilliant political statement... Indeed! In the spirit of "Dan's Bake Sale", the dynamics are simple. Selling goods on an open market with the only restriction being the limits due to color or gender.
If all Young Republicans would have a "national" bake sale at their respective colleges on a fixed date, it might receive more attention.
One observation: if one of these so-called liberals takes to hostile actions, that means that they young Pubs are making headway. The idea would be to take a page out of the leftist manual and agitate the Libs - keep it up!
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posted on
12/24/2003 9:20:41 AM PST
by
VRW Conspirator
(Democrat party: the party of slavery, death and unholy alliances)
To: Sub-Driver
"You see something like that, you feel itemized." These bake sales are offensive, they are meant to be. The bake sales are saying to minorities, "you need charity" and "we don't need charity, which implies, we are better than you".
But affirmative action should be even more offensive. AA says to minorities, "you are inferior and need an edge".
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posted on
12/24/2003 10:08:20 AM PST
by
staytrue
To: Sub-Driver
"The statements of the UW College Republicans in putting on a bake sale about affirmative action were tasteless, divisive and hurtful to many members of the university community," he wrote.
If this guy is so upset at an affirmative action bake sale, why isn't he even more disgusted when the results of affirmative action result in qualified students being denied entry into school merely because they have the wrong skin color??
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posted on
12/24/2003 10:14:34 AM PST
by
flashbunny
(The constitution doesn't protect only the things you approve of.)
To: BartMan1; Nailbiter
ping
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posted on
12/24/2003 10:57:31 AM PST
by
IncPen
( "Saddam is in our hearts! Saddam is in our hearts!" "Saddam is in our jail!")
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