Affirmative Action bake sale sparks controversy

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That's a stretch. he new position comes with a new salary anyway, so it's just competiveness. You don't get a race based raise, you get the job.

Perhaps in their bake sale if they'd allowed an individual ethnic group line priority, or set a certain threshold for number of people served and gave racial preference. No one is denying Affirmative action descriminates bewteen people in the most basic form of the words meaning. The question is, is this type of discrimination effective in levelling the playing field and thus fair, or is all discrimination of any kind immediately wrong in every way.

I get their point. I don't agree, and it didn't get me to think anything new, and I can't imagine it got anyone to think anything they didn't already think. That's the problem with a poorly constructed stunt. It did the main thing it was designed to do, piss people off and thus garner attention. I think the innocent routine the guy quoted plays out confirms the shallowness of the gesture in te first place.

But the university shouldn't have shut them down. They should have asked where the money for this 'fundraier' was going.