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From: FPP <fredp1571@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: UC Berkeley Bans White People from Community Garden
Date: Thu, 4 Apr 2024 19:52:44 -0400
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On 4/4/24 3:26 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
> In article
> <17c30908ccb6086a$139915$2820980$c4d58e68@news.newsdemon.com>,
>   trotsky <gmsingh@email.com> wrote:
> 
>> On 4/2/24 5:11 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-syst
>>>>> emic-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".
>>
>> They sound like a bunch of fags that spend too
>> much time in circle jerks to get anything accomplished.
> 
> Oh, look, there's Hutt using the 'f-word', the gay equivalent of the
> 'n-word', but he won't be called a bigot or a homophobe by either Effa
> or moviePig for it.
> 
> Their moral outrage over bigotry and homophobia seems to have a
> convenient blind-spot when it comes to their favorite misshapen remora.
> 

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