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From: FPP <fredp1571@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: UC Berkeley Bans White People from Community Garden
Date: Wed, 3 Apr 2024 05:50:07 -0400
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On 4/2/24 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".
> 

You spent four solid years not condemning anything.  Not rape, not calls 
for termination of the constitution, not insurrection, not fraud, not 
gross negligence, not lies, not cheating... practically nothing.

And shouldn't we all go by the same standard?

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