Thursday, September 25, 2003

The Inmates Must Be In Charge!
The Gweilo spots a beauty:
Southern Methodist University, in Texas, shut down a student bake sale in which cookies were offered for sale at different prices, depending on the race and/or gender of the buyer.

The sale was conducted by the Young Conservatives organization, as a protest against the use of race and gender as a factor in college admissions.

White males were charged $1 for a cookie, white women 75 cents, while Hispanics had to pay 50 cents and blacks 25 cents.

A black student filed a complaint with the university, saying he found the sale offensive, and school officials promptly responded by shutting it down.
"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."

[. . . .]

Matt Houston, a 19-year-old sophomore, called the group's price list offensive.

"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."
Of course it's about free speech you great bloody ass.
No chilling effect on dissent here! Move along!

And while you're visiting Gweilo Diaries, check out NK Blames Japan for Abductions. It's an Oriental version of "The USA was responsible for 9/11."