Affirmative Action bake sale sparks controversy

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"The whole point was to show how affirmative action itself was racist," Sons of Liberty cofounder William Coggin told the student newspaper, the Dog Street Journal. "The point of the stand was obvious."

This is what's called a Tautology. They aren't showing HOW affirmitive action is Racist since the price of baked goods doesn't paralell weighing someones ethnicity as a factor in determining hiring or admission. They already concluded Affirmitive Action was racist and paralelled it with something else racist. Affirmative action effects competitiveness, not price. Colleges award admission, they don't purchase students.

"I didn't think anyone would be offended by the price of a cookie," he said. "The point of the bake sale was just to raise awareness. It was not to offend anybody."

Bullshit. I have nothing against offensive protest, and while I think this one was stupid, I have nothing against it and think the college was wrong to shut it down. To me the only point they were proving is that they are idiots. Let them. But they got the best result they could possibly hope for and to say that they didn't think anyone would be offended is a clumsy lie or shere stupidity. Surely they hoped like hell someone would be offended. That's HOW they intended to 'make a point'. They shouldn't follow it up by insulting people's intelligence.

And Vinth... How did you NOT get what Ranx was saying? You need affirmative action for Morons.