Associated Students Senate at UC-Berkeley, in response to a satirical diversity bake sale held by a Republican Student organization to protest a proposed bill that “would allow California’s public universities to consider race, ethnicity and gender in student admissions as long as no preference is given,” approved unanimously a resolution condemning ‘the use of discrimination whether it is in satire or in seriousness by any student group.'”
That is, they’ve banned irony. Unironically.
I wonder if, when it’s pointed out to the Associated Students Senate that their own resolution is inherently discriminatory against those who would use irony to protest political proposals with which they disagree, their heads will pop from the strain of trying to pin down the meta-cognition necessary to understand just how ironic all of this truly is.
(thanks to Darleen)
They are idiots.
Sweet. I can finally join Pi Beta Phi. I promise to give you guys a play by play on the bra and panties tickle fights.
Just when I think living in California could not get any more ridiculous, I realize that I’ve not hit bottom yet. Damn. I used to curse at arrogant east coast people like Saul Bellow when he said the best thing that could happen is for California to slide into the Pacific Ocean. My bad, Saul.
It appears that California exists to serve as a warning to the other 56 states. I hope you’re paying attention, America.
I think Obama was thinking tits. As in: There must be 57 tits up there!
jwillmoney, don’t ever think that California can’t get any more ridiculous. They’ll always let you down. They’re pioneers, after all.
California is simply a large bowl of granola:
Nuts, Fruits, and Flakes.
These “Affirmative Action” bake sales have been waxing and waning on campuses nationwide for at least 15 years that I lnow of. They seem to bring out the same groups of the “outraged” every single time.
Nathan Fillion has been tweeting this for a few days now:
http://thefire.mobify.me/article/13595.html
They’re pretty dumb.
Persistant but dumb.
And persistant dumb is the most dangerous dumb around.
Perhaps if someone pointed out that “banning Firefly” is something FOX (sorry, FAUX) does, they’ll back off?
Damn. This story was so much funnier when meine Frau was misreporting it to me as a serious, university sponsored fundraiser.
dicentra: the question the police chief wants answered is, couldn’t reasonable people read the poster and feel it was a death threat?
Just putting it into some context. I have no further comment beyond that. For obvious reasons.
Ernst, don’t let deine geliebte Frau catch you leaving out the geliebte. Lest woe betide you.
consider race, ethnicity and gender in student admissions as long as no preference is given
Does that make any sense whatsoever, even to an reality-challenged prog? If no preference is going to be given, and certainly no penalty, that means that by rule, by law, there will be no effect from considering race. Then why would you want to consider it? Unless you need some wink-and-nod room, eh? Unless you want to be able to say, as U Wisconsin does, that you are not giving “preferences”, it is purely coincidental that a Wisconsin citizen of Asian descent needs 150 more SAT points to get admitted as a Black Wisconsonite.
I really want to sockpuppet as Alanis Morissette suddenly.
It did to our SCOTUS in Bakke, specifically, to Justice Black.
The rest has been a series of completely foreseeable unforeseen social consequences.
This is exactly like ray-ee-yain on your wedding day, bh ;)
Heh, isn’t it ironic, Darth?
She should endow a position at Berkeley to study this.
Thus demonstrating why one should always – always – be prepared to tell something with a ridiculous name like “Associated Student Senate” to go piss up a rope.
Word to the wise, and all that.
couldn’t reasonable people read the poster and feel it was a death threat?
No, but I have it from reliable sources that egrets startle at the very sight of Capt. Mal and black dogs bark in his wake.
I always found the song ironic because a preachy, pretentious, screechy douche wrote a song about irony without knowing the definition of the word. Was she being meta or just stupid?
AFS – Never discount the Power of Stupid.
It is not enough to obey them, you must love them.
Death threats? Bah! Don’t make me post pics of what my wife can do with a handgun against (photographic representations of) muscular weightlifty guys… I mean, if we’re going to start talking DEATH THREATS, that is.
Yeah, I went there.
Is it possible to be both reasonable and dumb as a stump? I’d like to examine Dean Hayes.
Berkeley dear Berkeley.