"Biased" Bake Sale Shut Down By Texas University

[Inverse Icarus]

"My reaction was disgust because of the ignorance of some SMU students," said Houston, who is black. "They were arguing that affirmative action was solely based on race. It's not based on race. It's based on bringing a diverse community to a certain organization."

so, what other "diversities" amoung people does AA check? i don't remember filling out anything about sexuality. i remember a religious one though. what else?

[Japher]

This has been done at several Universities around her, but they were never shut down... I think it's funny.

[Inverse Icarus]

its cause an uppity black was in talking, japher.

DISCLAIMER: NOT ALL BLACKS ARE UPPITY. THIS ONE IS.

[MichaeltheGreat]

Originally posted by Q Cubed
what did we slant-eyes have to pay?

the white price? or the minority price?

Minority price. SCOTUS decided that one in Gong Lum v. Rice in 1928, IIRC. (Suit about probably the only Chinese-American kid in Mississippi, and whether he'd be allowed to go to the white kid's school, or the colored school out in the county, since they didn't want to build a separate slant-eye school to maintain "separate but equal"

So anyway, it's official, you're colored.

[Jac de Molay]

This was not an issue about free speech," Tim Moore, director of the SMU student center, said in a story for Thursday's edition of The Dallas Morning News. "It was really an issue where we had a hostile environment being created."

This is a typical PC rant which covers up the fact that is about free speech. Being offended is in the eye of the beholder, and they shouldn't shut it down because a few people are too thin-skinned to understand the point being driven home

[Inverse Icarus]

they're colored but not AS COLORED.

let's use some newspeak.

white = doubleplusgood
asian = plusgood
hispanic = good
mixes of above= ungood
black = doubleplusungood

[Inverse Icarus]

Originally posted by Jac de Molay

This is a typical PC rant which covers up the fact that is about free speech. Being offended is in the eye of the beholder, and they shouldn't shut it down because a few people are too thin-skinned to understand the point being driven home

or too dark-skinned to accept the point being driven home.

YARRRRRRRRRRRR

[Dinner]

Originally posted by MichaeltheGreat
Minority price. SCOTUS decided that one in Gong Lum v. Rice in 1928, IIRC. (Suit about probably the only Chinese-American kid in Mississippi, and whether he'd be allowed to go to the white kid's school, or the colored school out in the county, since they didn't want to build a separate slant-eye school to maintain "separate but equal"

So anyway, it's official, you're colored.

I think that was changed later or at least was different in other southern states. I took and As-Am class in college to fill my multicultural requirement and in that class the teacher said most southern states didn't know how to classify Asians since society was divided up between Blacks and Whites. Since Asians obviously weren't black they were officially classified as white and used the same bathrooms, drinking fountains, and what not as whites.

[DanS]

I was about to rebut Lincoln's argument, but ended up agreeing with it. While this is a clever stunt and attention-getter, it runs roughshod over the fact that only some minorities benefit from these policies. The thing is, neither the white students nor the minority students know precisely the people who benefitted, so you can't really hold it against the whole group.

Among the subset of minorities who benefit from the policies, none of them asked personally to be treated with a foot on the scale. To attack them, even indirectly, is to ask them to bear the blame for the improper policies of the school administration. It isn't fair at all to do so.

[Whaleboy]

Cookies are nice

[rmsharpe]

Absolutle true to what AA is.

[Theben]

Originally posted by Q Cubed
what did we slant-eyes have to pay?

the white price? or the minority price?

The Young Repup's likely forgot you existed.

Interesting. I didn't realize racism was so alive on these forums.

[Sarxis]

From article:

"They were arguing that affirmative action was solely based on race. It's not based on race. It's based on bringing a diverse community to a certain organization."

So what do you think 'diversity' means in this guy's dictionary?

[Ned]

What SMU did in shutting down this political protest would be outrageously unconstitutional if the university were a organ of state of Texas. But, due to its name, I think SMU is private.

Even so, suppression of political dissent is wrong, Wrong, WRONG!

[Ned]

More on this. SMU said the protest created a "hostile" atmosphere. This is the common reason for shutting down protests. It was loudly condemned by the Supreme Court in a famous opinion by Douglas who said the government had an obligation to protect the protesters from a violent reaction rather than suppress the protest.

Defenders of SMU must be ashamed of themselves.