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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.]
(Score: 3, Informative) by Entropy on Saturday October 29 2016, @05:39PM
No, what they really want is for it to be OK to be racist if you're black. On a surprisingly large scale they are getting this nonsense, too.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by Zz9zZ on Saturday October 29 2016, @07:44PM
Incorrect, you are reading biased news that want to use racial tensions to divide citizens and distract you from the real problems. They play us so well that the most popular stories on SN (for comments anyway) are these political / racial stories that don't even have to do with nerdy topics.
~Tilting at windmills~
(Score: 2) by Entropy on Sunday October 30 2016, @06:22PM
These protests(riots) are based on biased news. Or did you believe the innocent guy that just robbed a convenience store was gunned down by the police just when he was turning his life around? Or did the grand jury find out he tried to take the officer's gun away and got shot while attacking him? It's funny I only saw the just turned his life story around prominently on the news.
(Score: 2) by Zz9zZ on Sunday October 30 2016, @07:33PM
Wow, you must be shilling real hard for the gov. There was no riot here, why say that? Bringing in a convenience store robbery? Is your point just that stories often have a certain spin on them? Cause I'll go along with that, but in this case the spin is to marginalize the protests and get people as outraged as possible so they forget whatever else they SHOULD be caring about.
~Tilting at windmills~