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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 29 2016, @07:04PM
These folks at UCLA (or UCB?) want something that is actually illegal though (imo - ianal) - racial [or foo] exclusivity in public accommodation. Segregation based on appearance
You are a sucker, aren't you?
Who told you that? Why did you believe them? Eh? Because it is what you wanted to believe. So you didn't bother to question, to doubt. It gave you the good feels, didn't it? You gotta watch out for that shit. When people tell you things that give you the good feels, they are coning you.
This living-learning community focuses on academic excellence and learning experiences that are inclusive and non-discriminatory. This community is open to all students. [snopes.com]
Sucker!
(Score: 4, Informative) by BK on Saturday October 29 2016, @07:52PM
Just doublespeak [propublica.org] friend.
...but you HAVE heard of me.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 29 2016, @08:20PM
WTF does facebook have to do with lies about housing discrimination?
You aren't my friend. You are just a bigot who indulges in random red herrings because he can't make principled case for his bigotry.
(Score: 2) by BK on Saturday October 29 2016, @09:56PM
You're just an ignoramus who doesn't know how to use contractions.
Public accommodation is not just housing. A public accommodation [wikipedia.org] is just about any facility used by the public. Stores. Universities (and their facilities). And in today's case, a bridge.
My link about Facebook's doublespeak should sound eerily familiar to the explanations offered by UCLA in your link. They're both trying to hide behind the same fig leaf.
...but you HAVE heard of me.
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 29 2016, @10:11PM
> My link about Facebook's doublespeak should sound eerily familiar to the explanations offered by UCLA in your link.
Only to someone who wants to hear similarities.
On one hand you have UCLA saying, "Anybody who likes this culture is welcome" and on the other hand you have facebook saying, "you can discriminate based on race."
And to you, those are the same thing because in the mind of the bigot anyone talking about bigotry is automatically the bigot.