{"id":6388,"date":"2011-09-27T06:56:17","date_gmt":"2011-09-27T06:56:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/?p=6388"},"modified":"2011-09-27T06:56:17","modified_gmt":"2011-09-27T06:56:17","slug":"when-positive-discrimination-isnt-so-funny","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/when-positive-discrimination-isnt-so-funny\/","title":{"rendered":"When “positive” discrimination isn’t so funny"},"content":{"rendered":"

At least to some people. A \u2018Diversity Bake Sale\u2019 Backfires on Campus<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Student leaders worried that the bake sale would make students uncomfortable and aggravate tensions on campus.<\/p>\n

\u201cA number of students have come to me very concerned,\u201d said the student body president, Vishalli Loomba, 20, a fourth-year molecular and cell biology major. \u201cMany feel the differential pricing is offensive and that it makes them feel unwelcome.\u201d<\/b><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The reality is that Berkeley is filled with a lot of Leftist activism which explicitly intends to make certain people and views feel “unwelcome.” So the issue here is not offense, but who is being offended. I recall watching as a McCain supporter was literally mobbed by a crowd of agitated people on the corner of Vine and Shattuck near the Gourmet Ghetto Peet’s Coffee in 2008 (he admitted to his Republican sympathies when approached by a voter registration worker or something, and it started from that). There wasn’t any intimation of violence from what I could tell, but the lone McCaine supporter wasn’t being engaged in a dialogue. He was being harangued and mocked, and his views were being abused. But it’s the USA, and free speech is free speech, right? Not when that speech offends protected classes.<\/b><\/p>\n

That’s all fine. This sort of Left hypocrisy is par for the course. The interesting point is that many of those who espouse in these sorts of behaviors in a place like Berkeley literally don’t even understand how they could be hypocrites. Wrong views are not views worthy of respect or some minimal level of engagement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

At least to some people. A \u2018Diversity Bake Sale\u2019 Backfires on Campus: Student leaders worried that the bake sale would make students uncomfortable and aggravate tensions on campus. \u201cA number of students have come to me very concerned,\u201d said the … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[15],"tags":[843],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6388"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6388"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6388\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6393,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6388\/revisions\/6393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}