Young Conservatives bake sale at UT sparks racism furor

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Source: USA TODAY

The Young Conservations of Texas chapter at the University of Texas at Austin sparked a protest with an affirmative action bake sale on campus Wednesday afternoon. The club encouraged students to “to buy a cookie from us and talk about the disastrous policy that is affirmative action.”

The Young Conservatives UT chapter, or YCT-UT, priced cookies on a tiered pricing model “to illustrate this disastrous policy that demeans minorities on our campus by placing labels of race and gender on their accomplishments,” according to the event description posted on the YCT-UT Facebook page.
Related: Young Americans for Freedom starts up amid rocky waters at Univ. of Kansas

These items and prices were listed on the bake sale sign:

Asian male $1.50
Asian female $1.25
White male $1.00
White female $.75
African American male $.50
African American female $.25
Hispanic male $.50
Hispanic female $.25
Native American FREE


“YCT is a truly colorblind organization,” the Facebook event reads, “and believes that all government institutions are constitutionally prohibited from discriminating on the basis of race in all circumstances, including affirmative action.” As news of the bake sale spread around the UT campus, some outraged students began protesting. And as news of the event spread, many shared reactions on Twitter.


Read more: http://college.usatoday.com/2016/10/26/young-conservatives-ut-bake-sale-racism/

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Their parents from the KKK would be so proud.

[Journeyman]

1. This has been done before, always to the same reaction and ultimate failure . . .

There's a saying, that insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results. This kind of fits that criteria.

[JoePhilly]

3. You'd think college students would be able to use "the Google" ...

... to see if any one has every tried this before ... and how it worked out.

Oh wait ... "Conservative" students ... never mind.

[Lancero]

4. The Young Democrats did a similar sale last year. Ended up getting death threats afaik.

[mdbl]

8. that was a male - female pay thing

unless you aren't talking about Utah

[JunkYardDogg]

2. Wait 'till they have their slave sale

Ah, the sensitive Mormons of the new millennium
What would Jesus charge ?

[awoke_in_2003]

16. University of Texas

not Utah.

[IronLionZion]

5. It got the reaction they wanted

to be fair, there are Dems who also question the race-based affirmative action and would argue in favor of an income-based version instead to help out poor Appalachian-Americans for example.

It's very interesting they put Asians on top. We are blatantly blocked out from many opportunities in some sectors based on the "Make America Great Again" belief that we are somehow "less American" than those with European heritage and should not be trusted with matters of national security.

[mdbl]

6. Personally, I think they should be forced to live as a poor person with a stigma of some kind

for 3 years. Then we can hear what they have to say. Affirmative action policies were created to overcome those things. In many cases it worked.

[rurallib]

11. if they did that they shouldn't have an end time

but a finish based on some criteria of having learned a specific lesson after a minimum time.

ETA - doubt anything would ever actually work.

[NurseJackie]

7. Because it worked so well the last dozen times this has been tried?

[FSogol]

9. The take-away? Young Republicans and Young Conservatives are assholes.

Just ignore the fuckers.

[TiredTexan]

10. The true absurdity is that

women, African Americans and Hispanics are paid far less than white men for the same job. And, that doesn't even take into account the fact that white men hold almost all of the executive and senior leadership positions at companies around the country. Thus, the statistics cited (77% gender gap, 55% to 75% minority gap) don't even contemplate the wage gap created by the lack of opportunity faced by women and minorities as compared to white men. If we saw the true number including the glass ceiling effect, who knows what the gap would really be.

Adding insult to injury, women are charged more for all kinds of consumer items. So it's opposite day once again with these liars.

http://www.iwpr.org/initiatives/pay-equity-and-discrimination

http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2016/07/01/racial-gender-wage-gaps-persist-in-u-s-despite-some-progress/

http://money.usnews.com/money/personal-finance/articles/2016-02-17/the-pink-tax-why-womens-products-often-cost-more

[Major Nikon]

12. You don't have to be racist to be a conservative

...but it's a great start.

[Jopin Klobe]

13. truly colorblind ...

... and truly brain-dead ...

[awoke_in_2003]

17. Colorblind...

to them means black and white- there are whites, then there is everyone else.

[ck4829]

14. How much did it cost if you're not one of those races, or one of those genders?

They're not "colorblind" at all if they can't answer that.

[Nitram]

15. Tone deaf bigots.

My favorite kind.

[geek tragedy]

18. It's like conservatism and racism are correlated nt

[keithbvadu2]

19. It gets even more complicated, legally, for people not cookies

It gets even more complicated, legally, for people not cookies

https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/business/wonk/settlements/

"In one corner of the law, minorities and women are often valued less"

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"In one case, when a 6-year-old girl and a male fetus were killed in the same car crash, the settlement for the fetus was calculated to be up to 84 percent higher than the girl’s, according to court records. "

(I'm not trying to defend their cookie sale)

[Snarkoleptic]

20. The snotty and in-your-face arrogance of young white privilege on display

I suspect they're self-described Christians as well.

[progressoid]

21. Wow.

I can't imagine the thoughts going through the AA person in the foreground.