Date: Tue, 2 Apr 2024 18:42:20 -0400
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On 4/2/2024 6:11 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
> In article
> <17c2945fd5df91bc$169747$3716115$2d54864@news.newsdemon.com>,
>   moviePig <never@nothere.com> wrote:
> 
>> On 4/2/2024 12:39 AM, BTR1701 wrote:
>>>
>>> https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13257943/UC-Berkeley-accused-system
>>> ic-racism-banning-white-people-community-farm.html
>>>
>>> One of the most progressive and socially liberal schools in the country is
>>> cultivating controversy as it faces accusations of racism after it
>>> allegedly banned white residents from accessing a community farm on
>>> Saturdays.
>>>
>>> Gill Tract Community Farm in nearby Albany has designated Saturdays
>>> exclusively for use by 'Black, Indigenous, and People of Color' (BIPOC)
>>> after a complaint was filed with the US Department of Education by the
>>> Mountain States Legal Foundation. The move has been denounced by some
>>> as an example of 'systemic racism'.
>>>
>>> Gill Tract Farm was established in 2013 through a partnership between
>>> UC-Berkeley and the local communities it serves as a site for urban farming
>>> research. Part of the farm's ethos is to support the 'food justice'
>>> movement by cultivating crops for healthy meals.
>>>
>>> William Trachman, general counsel for the Mountain States Legal Foundation
>>> has criticized the university's stance. "UC-Berkeley thinks that racial
>>> segregation is progressive now, but it's no different than segregation of
>>> the past," Trachman told the New York Post. "Preventing Caucasians from
>>> accessing Berkeley's College of Natural Resources Farm on Saturdays is a
>>> clear violation of Title VI, which bars educational institutions from
>>> engaging in or allowing race discrimination."
>>>
>>> Trachman is calling for a comprehensive investigation into all UC-Berkeley
>>> programs to address what he has described as 'systemic racism'. UC-Berkeley
>>> has said they were unaware of the discrimination complaint until being
>>> contacted by the media.
>>>
>>> "Saturdays are exclusively BIPOC. Exceptions have only been made for events
>>> that are BIPOC-centered and with plenty of advance notice and planning," an
>>> email sent by the garden's manager read. "I trust you stand in solidarity
>>> with upholding boundaries around that safe and sacred space."
>>>
>>> After being contacted about the allegations, a spokesperson for the
>>> university denied all knowledge of the farm's special Saturday policy.
>>>
>>> "The Gill Tract's website and calendar make no mention whatsoever of any
>>> program or activity of the sort described in the complaint. Having said
>>> that, the university takes complaints like this extremely seriously and
>>> I can assure you that on Monday I will contact the appropriate people on
>>> campus in an effort to determine what the facts are," UC-Berkeley
>>> spokesman Dan Mogulof stated.
>>
>> Stupid, but maybe too un-representative to prevail.
> 
> Day after day comes incident after incident showing this sort of thing
> is hardly unrepresentative. 'Progressive' leftism, particularly in
> academia, is openly racist toward white people, and people like you,
> Effa, and Hutt never condemn it. You just shrug and brush each one off
> as an "isolated anomaly".

Well, I just now condemned it, and asked if it was an isolated anomaly.