SEATTLE, WA — A college Republicans student group at the University of Washington is holding a bake sale on Friday, and the treats will be priced according to their customers’ race and gender.
For white people, baked goods are $1. Black people will pay 50 cents for the same treat, while women — or “females” as the UW students say — get 25 cents off everything.
The bake sale is meant to be a rebuke of the passage on Sunday of I-1000, a law that allows affirmative action in hiring for government jobs, college admissions, and government contracts. The college Republicans say I-1000 is racist, and they’ll use the bake sale to convince others of that.
“We will be protesting this clearly racist change of law by hosting a bake sale that plainly shows the clear discrimination allowed by law now,” the Facebook event page reads.
But others see the bake sale as a hideous stunt. In a statement, the Samuel E. Kelly Ethnic Cultural Center at UW called the affirmative action bake sale “horrific.”
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“We are a community that values diversity, equity and inclusion of all communities. Our office is a safe and welcoming space for all underrepresented, marginalized and communities of color. We vow to be in solidarity with you and offer our space, resources, time, and care right now, tomorrow and forever,” the center wrote in a statement Thursday.
The UW First Nations group will host a potlatch on Friday at the Husky Union Building where they will give out baked goods, but they are accepting donations. The UW Republicans have priced baked goods “free” for Native Americans at the affirmative action sale.
The Washington College Republican Federation put out a statement, saying that it has no affiliation with the UW College Republicans.
News of the bake sale made the rounds on social media Thursday after The Stranger wrote an article about it. Comedian Hari Kondabolu tweeted a video of a bit he did about Republicans at Berkeley holding the same type of bake sale. In it, he suggests a strategy for bankrupting the bake sale: