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Berkeley Protesters Segregate Bridge

posted by martyb on Saturday October 29 2016, @02:53PM   Printer-friendly
from the whatever-happened-to-DEsegregation? dept.

The Washington Times reports a story about protesters on the UC Berkeley campus physically blocking white students from accessing a bridge while police stand by and watch:

Students at the University of California, Berkeley held a day of protest on Friday to demand the creation of additional “safe spaces” for transgender and nonwhite students, during which a human chain was formed on a main campus artery to prevent white students from getting to class.

The demonstrators were caught on video blocking Berkeley’s Sather Gate, holding large banners advocating the creation of physical spaces segregated by race and gender identity, including one that read “Fight 4 Spaces of Color.”

Protesters can be heard shouting “Go around!” to white students who attempt to go through the blockade, while students of color are greeted with calls of “Let him through!”

Students turned away by the mob are later shown filing through trees and ducking under branches in order to cross Strawberry Creek, which runs underneath the bridge.

The protests were a response to a Safe Space being moved from the fifth floor of a building down to the basement.

[Original version of this story had "UCLA"; corrected to: "UC Berkeley" -Ed.]

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  • (Score: 2) by Arik on Saturday October 29 2016, @06:17PM

    by Arik (4543) on Saturday October 29 2016, @06:17PM (#420190) Journal
    I noticed that myself but I don't think you're reading it right. Asians are going around it to avoid the possibility of confrontation. Asians, which by a lot of statistics would seem to be MORE not LESS privileged than whites, and who also statistically tend to major in 'patriarchal' things like math and science, are not automatically considered non-white by the SJWs. Outside of a handful of token asians the two groups seem to view each other with suspicion at best, so of course most of the asians (particularly the males) are going to look at that mess and immediately look for a way around it. Students of any color who are trying to get an education are going to try to avoid a situation like that. And I DID see some black students walk right up and right on through and off to class with only the tiniest interruption to chat with the protestors and bump fists. So looking at the same video I'm really not agreeing with you - doesn't look like bullshit at all.
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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 29 2016, @06:19PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 29 2016, @06:19PM (#420192)

    > And I DID see some black students walk right up and right on through and off to class with only the tiniest interruption to chat with the protestors and bump fists.

    Timestamp?

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 29 2016, @08:41PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 29 2016, @08:41PM (#420241)

      Timestamp?

      1m 29s [youtube.com]

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 29 2016, @08:56PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 29 2016, @08:56PM (#420253)

        Hello, that's the caption written by the liar who posted the video.
        Nobody actually says that.
        I didn't realize soybeans were that fucking stupid.

        • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 29 2016, @10:19PM

          by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 29 2016, @10:19PM (#420289)

          We all see you trying to move the goalposts unnoticed. The issue you demanded timestamps for was not anyone vocalizing anything, but for people of certain appearances being let through the crows of "protesters" with no interference. Your deception is fooling no one.

          • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 29 2016, @11:31PM

            by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 29 2016, @11:31PM (#420342)

            I was referring to the change in title which reflected the caption at the timestamp.

            The video at the timestamp doesn't actually show what's claimed. The two pairs of girls are not let through, they are let in, but then the video cuts out. In both cases. We never see them pass beyond the line. It would have been a simple matter for the video editor to include that footage. And yet its missing. Weird, huh?