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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 30 2016, @01:41AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 30 2016, @01:41AM (#420406)

    Since all you are left with is mere ad hominem, I take it you feel unable to successfully defend your attempt to redefine the word "racism". Excellent. Go and sin no more.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 30 2016, @09:03PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 30 2016, @09:03PM (#420639)

    I'm not 'defending' anything. That was accomplished when I posted the definition from the actual dictionary.
    After that, all I've done is fuck with an obvious dipshit.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 31 2016, @02:12AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 31 2016, @02:12AM (#420740)

      Your "posting the definition from the actual dictionary" attempted to make the deceptive and incorrect claim that "racism" could be used for its description of a "social system" to apply to a lone individual based upon nothing more than said individual belonging to the majority race.

      I know you're not 'defending' such a twisting of words - it is indefensible. You did give it a try, though.