P.J. O’Rourke, call your office. These college Republicans were trying to be funny with their little bake sale. Apparently, not a lot of people are laughing:
[I]t’s not your everyday collegiate fundraiser they’ve got in mind. They’ve developed a sliding scale where the price of the cookie or brownie depends on your gender and the color of your skin.
During the sale, scheduled for Tuesday, baked goods will be sold to white men for $2.00, Asian men for $1.50, Latino men for $1.00, black men for $0.75 and Native American men for $0.25. All women will get $0.25 off those prices.
“The pricing structure is there to bring attention, to cause people to get a little upset,” Campus Republican President Shawn Lewis, who planned the event, told CNN-affiliate KGO. “But it’s really there to cause people to think more critically about what this kind of policy would do in university admissions.”
Lewis says it’s a way to make a statement about pending legislation that would let the California universities consider race or national origin during the admission process.
As one of the white critics of the laughapalooza said, “I get the joke.” So do I. As well as the point about latter-day privilege and reverse discrimination. And no one has ever accused me of not having a sense of humor, even when it comes to politically incorrect subjects.
But guys, before you decide to pull one of these pranks, make sure, first, that it’s at least funny and not just crass. I mean, the average Klansman could have come up with something like this, although most of it would probably have been misspelled, not to mention written in that secret white-man language that only hobos and “former Scout masters” speak.
Plus I guarantee: You changed no one’s mind about anything.
You really want to take revenge on the liberal establishment? Do really, really well in school, like in science and technology and stuff. Build a time machine. Go back to the eighteenth century and convince the founders to abolish slavery. Then build a network of schools to educate all former slaves and a society that won’t treat them like dirt. And oh yeah, try and convince the colonists not to cheat Native Americans out of most of North America. You know, stuff like that.
Then there wouldn’t be a need to even have this conversation.
Until then, try to be a little clever with your social commentary. Elevate the debate in an imaginative way. In other words, try not to be dicks about it. The left already has that market cornered.
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I agree wholeheartedly, not only as a Christian, but as an NYU alum. After all, this debate took place at New York University. In Green-which Village. In Manhattan. Among college students.
