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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: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 29 2016, @08:50PM
I would consider that a failure of the administration to teach those children what segregation is. They have renamed it and gave it a more 'hip' name to distance itself from what it is. But segregation is segregation. Seems to be a standard tactic of people who want to do shitty things. Rename a thing and say its not 'really' that other thing.
I described this to an old man in his 90s. Know what fell out of his mouth? "that sounds like good ol segregation to me". These people want to dismantle what our parents spent the 50s and 60s put in place. All because they might feel uncomfortable.