FrankRep
06-14-2011, 10:03 AM
See Students Try to Explain Why They Support Affirmative Action…But Not in Sports (http://www.theblaze.com/stories/see-students-try-to-explain-why-they-support-affirmative-action-but-not-in-sports/)
The Blaze
June 14, 2011
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bmSzgvaJCn0&feature=player_embedded
Oliver Darcy and the team at ExposingLeftists.com (http://exposingleftists.com/) has produced yet another gem of a video. You‘ll remember that they’re the group that likes to go to college campuses and expose hypocrisy by asking students to sign various petitions. This time, they tackled affirmative action. And the results are both hilarious and disconcerting.
From the video’s description:
Many students support affirmative action, in an effort to promote diversity. They argue that race-based preferences “level the playing field” for disadvantaged minorities. However, these same students refused to sign our petition to apply such policies to the basketball team. At UC Riverside — where the video was filmed — 10/11 active players on the team are African American. Why not use affirmative action to promote diversity there?
It’s definitely worth the four and a half minutes to see the students say they support affirmative action, but then stumble and fumble as they try to explain why “skill” should be the deciding factor, not race, and that using affirmative action in sports is just “different:
SOURCE:
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/see-students-try-to-explain-why-they-support-affirmative-action-but-not-in-sports/
Flashback:
Liberal College Students: Redistribution of Wealth, Yes! Redistribution of Grades, NO! (http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?294180-Liberal-Hypocrisy-Rampant-on-College-Campuses)
Conservative college student Oliver Darcy, a member of the College Republicans at the University of California-Merced, has released three videos that effectively expose the liberal agenda and hypocrisies on college campuses.
The Blaze
June 14, 2011
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bmSzgvaJCn0&feature=player_embedded
Oliver Darcy and the team at ExposingLeftists.com (http://exposingleftists.com/) has produced yet another gem of a video. You‘ll remember that they’re the group that likes to go to college campuses and expose hypocrisy by asking students to sign various petitions. This time, they tackled affirmative action. And the results are both hilarious and disconcerting.
From the video’s description:
Many students support affirmative action, in an effort to promote diversity. They argue that race-based preferences “level the playing field” for disadvantaged minorities. However, these same students refused to sign our petition to apply such policies to the basketball team. At UC Riverside — where the video was filmed — 10/11 active players on the team are African American. Why not use affirmative action to promote diversity there?
It’s definitely worth the four and a half minutes to see the students say they support affirmative action, but then stumble and fumble as they try to explain why “skill” should be the deciding factor, not race, and that using affirmative action in sports is just “different:
SOURCE:
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/see-students-try-to-explain-why-they-support-affirmative-action-but-not-in-sports/
Flashback:
Liberal College Students: Redistribution of Wealth, Yes! Redistribution of Grades, NO! (http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?294180-Liberal-Hypocrisy-Rampant-on-College-Campuses)
Conservative college student Oliver Darcy, a member of the College Republicans at the University of California-Merced, has released three videos that effectively expose the liberal agenda and hypocrisies on college campuses.