An affirmative action bake sale is a type of campus protest event used by student groups to performatively criticize affirmative action policies by charging students different prices depending on which social or racial group they belong to. It has also been used to raise awareness of racial or sexual wage gaps.
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Affirmative Action Bake Sale - College (R) President Follow-Up
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alright sharma is that the president of berkeley college republicans isn't as yet again it now if you guys remember from last week show these are not cause republicans that had that so-called racist bake sale they were selling cupcakes a different prices and of course the prices were eighty chang initiative for people of different races as miss it is uh... asians paid last blacks paid lessons in their and gender as well sellout isn't as because some people are criticizing him for being a publicity at work they're saying that you know this was his attempt at getting it press attention businesses attend that you know making a public spectacle and you know he his uh... motivations worn on january and actually disagree with that criticism uh... ait obviously disagree with the bake sale and joking around when i say disagreed with the bake sale i disagreed with the ideology that they were trying to put raised about the excel however so i think of the bake sale should have taken place and the reason why i'm in favor of it is because that's what college in higher ed is about it's about opening up that conversation starting that conversation imagine easier to make yourself look like an eighty eight in the process and this is the free market hip place in ideas and musha regardless of what kind of college or university down till you should always feel free to share your viewpoints did you get the chance to have been this with his mission a few times to ar missile stores follow through on it uh... unicef and discussion and that's one of the split for the good things about those uniforms had discussion with different points of view and different life experiences and different people was goes metal thing about the diversity that stars is holding the first place with allowing other people to have a chance and being in the same place the you are so that you can learn that life is in just like yours doesn't have grown ass man who don't realize that so if if you still have been i was i still think in colleges developmental stages of getting into your your regular life you know anything spending we have this particular point of view he has defused feel strongly that must have a stupid with this kind of with these kind of a president adds to it they needed to show that there's a lot of catholic from was missed there wasn't emilie ciency and i'm sure there was it as a scrappy sure there was a complex with intelligent literally shut down because it was clear of course and promises we're going to highlight you know the threats attitudes that application highs back in his face and all that stuff that's what he wants to highland right now once it was interesting about this guy is beside the still berkeley which is a liberal college it's no burning a liberal college and he is uh... he's amazed by the fact that people would get violet and and sent in violent threats one asking any market your in this is something that plays into people's feelings very motions it's it's something that's highly controversial piecing i'm happier than i did it because it shows that i stand by my beliefs my principles and new york i'm thalia ranchi art he focuses on those threats but he doesn't mention the other side on this conversation this is important to have a conversation okay it isn't going to have the conversation now tell me what the other side is arguing don't just represent their stress ray and a lot of good arguments were made uh... against the bake sale first of all the bake sale was highly flawed and inaccurate uh... right now more women go to college and then self affirmative action or something similar to affirmative action were to pass in california the people that would be most affected by are not white men or whites it would actually be asians and women so eighty eight but i would love it would love to hear you know had a response to that manages hosting this to the bake sale and then not having response to the criticisms i he has a response that operates as a very few hope they're going to move when he said you know he he's now it confirms his conservative views and feelings about things this isn't even there he's gotten more stars as the conservative on some things and he seen these more moderately in others out you know i mean among us health care but uh... happy present all of porcelain let him go i wouldn't think about it many now if you have the aloha thought process a lot of maybe you'll reconsider at least eighty tuesday from the but didn't get a rise above the stupidity but he was at that level to try and who will play seem to get attention for yet in the agreement is that this much attention buddy wanted attention for or she would be men do it the right thing to have the tension in the star of the conversation not change his mind because when you go to the uh... the good part about about being right is that died is present the correct point of view emily go in if he's not going to overheat his mother's even installed by the minimum macomb absorb evite and no let it continue to need to know that you can see the expiry of life and see what else changes in it nato finally see what we are here
Methodology
The bake sales offer to sell cookies at different prices depending on the customer's race and sex, imitating racial and sexual orientation practices of affirmative action. For example, one such bake sale at the University of New Mexico charged $1.50 for Asian customers, $1 for whites, and 50 cents for African-Americans and Hispanics.[1]
According to one bake sale student leader, the goal of the technique is to "bring the issue of affirmative action down to everyday terms."[2]
These bake sales have been organized at many schools across the U.S., sometimes annually. Affirmative action bake sales have also taken place at the University of Pretoria in South Africa, the latest (in 2008) having been forcibly broken up by campus security.[3]
Reception
The bake sales have met opposition, drawing crowds of students, sometimes facing opposition or restriction from campus administrations,[4][5][6] often being accused of racism, and sometimes even being attacked.[7] Additionally, some administrators have been accused of censorship and inappropriately advocating a political position.[7]
Responding to an affirmative action bake sale being attacked at the University of Washington, the school's Board of Regents President Jerry Grinstein presented the opinion of many opponents of these events when he described "the statements [...] in putting on a bake sale about affirmative action were tasteless, divisive and hurtful to many members of the university community."[7] The student leader of a bake sale at UCLA addressed this issue of divisiveness, saying "we wanted to show how affirmative action is racial division, not racial reconciliation."[2] Similarly, administrators at Bucknell University claimed that the bake sales violated the private university's discrimination policy.[4]
Other criticisms of the concept claim that these bake sales do not take into account ingrained social factors that favor white people. An opinion column in the Houston Chronicle after a similar sale took place at Texas A&M University held that "Actions like these reinforce the common misconception that affirmative action policies give academically unqualified minority students a get-into-college-free card, and they ignore historical discrimination that denied nonwhites opportunities to be successful at any price, no matter their talents or intelligence." The editorial also praised school officials for not shutting down the sale.[8]
At the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, the Graduate and Professional Students of Color student organization responded to a bake sale held by the Students for Individual Liberty[9] by holding a White Privilege popcorn giveaway where white males received a full bag of popcorn, while women and non-whites received 1/3 of a bag.[10]
See also
- Affirmative action in the United States
- Reverse discrimination
- Whites Only Scholarship
- White privilege
- White backlash
References
- ^ Schladebeck, Jessica (2017-09-23). "'Affirmative Action Bake Sale' charges students based on race". NY Daily News. Retrieved 2017-11-07.
- ^ a b Democrats riled by race-, gender-biased bake sale, Daily Bruin
- ^ 'AA/BEE' cake sale broken up (News24)
- ^ a b Jones, Ashby (2009-06-23). "Bucknell and the 'Affirmative-Action Bakesale' - Law Blog — WSJ". Blogs.wsj.com. Retrieved 2011-09-28.
- ^ "BUCC donut sale rejected by administration || The Bucknellian || Bucknell University". Bucknell.edu. 2009-04-24. Archived from the original on 2012-09-10. Retrieved 2011-09-28.
- ^ "John Stossel Discusses Bucknell's 'Affirmative Action Bake Sale' (and His Own) with Fox News' Megyn Kelly; Watch FIRE on 'Stossel' Tonight". FIRE. 2010-11-11. Retrieved 2011-09-28.
- ^ a b c Bake sales used to protest affirmative action, CNN, December 24, 2003 BROKEN LINK
- ^ Staff (2003-10-19). "Cookie sale was half-baked affirmative action protest". Houston Chronicle. p. D4.
- ^ The Alan Keyes Reparations Bakesale, Students for Individual Liberty, 19 October 2004
- ^ Organizations hosts 'White Privilege' popcorn giveaway, The Daily Illini
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