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FoxNews.com - JOHN STOSSEL: Get Your Affirmative Action Cupcake... http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2010/11/10/john-stossel-affirmative-ac... Fox News Fox Business Fox News Radio Fox News Latino Fox Nation Forecast: 55° New York edit Register Login ON AIR NOW » Anchors and Reporters » Your World w/ Neil et Glenn Beck et Cavuto (cc) 4p Bold - Brash - 5p From Main Street Beck! to Wall ... Road to Recovery: What's Working Rise of Freedom America's Election HQ Pelosi, Dems Accomplishments Party Home Video US World Politics Entertainment Leisure Health SciTech Opinion Sports On Air Opinion Home Michael Goodwin Judith Miller Juan Williams Dana Perino Amb. John Bolton Ellis Henican OPINION By John Stossel Published November 10, 2010 | FoxNews.com Print Email Share Comments (43) Text Size This week, I held a bake sale -- a racist bake sale. I stood in midtown Manhattan shouting, “Cupcakes for sale.” My price list read: Asians -- $1.50 Whites -- $1.00 Blacks/Latinos -- 50 cents People stared. One yelled, “What is funny to you about people who are less privileged?” A black woman said, angrily, “It’s very offensive, very demeaning!” One black man accused me of poisoning the cupcakes. I understand why people got angry. What I did was hurtful to some. My bake sale mimicked what some conservative college students did at Bucknell University. The students wanted to satirize their school’s affirmative action policy, which makes it easier for blacks and Hispanics to get admitted. I think affirmative action is racism -- and therefore wrong. If a private school like Bucknell wants to have such policies to increase diversity, fine. But government-imposed affirmative action is offensive. Equality before the law means government should treat citizens equally. But it doesn’t. Our racist government says that any school receiving federal tax dollars, even if only in the form of federal aid to students, must comply with affirmative action rules, and some states have enacted their own policies. Debt Commission Report Leaks, Unions Furious November 10, 2010 Law Gives Citizenship to Children of Unmarried Moms, Not Dads November 10, 2010 Dishonest WaPo Columnist Claims O'Reilly Threatened His Life November 10, 2010 Lou Dobbs Joins Fox Business November 10, 2010 U.K. Students Protest Tuition Hikes November 10, 2010 1 of 3 11/10/2010 6:00 PM FoxNews.com - JOHN STOSSEL: Get Your Affirmative Action Cupcake... http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2010/11/10/john-stossel-affirmative-ac... Sponsored Links Buy a link here Advocates of affirmative action argue it is needed because of MOST COMMENTED Mortgage Rates Hit 2.67%! historic discrimination. Maybe that was true in 1970, but it’s no If you owe under $729k you longer true. 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Fortunately, the Foundation for Individual Rights Loews CEO on QE2 Ten Worst Places to Live in Education (FIRE) has come to the students’ defense: One-on-One with James Tisch “Using this absurd logic, Bucknell would have to require its College Democrats to say nothing political on campus unless they give equal time to Republican candidates at their events, or its Catholic Campus Ministry to remain silent about Univision's Impact on Midterm Elections abortion unless it holds a debate and invites pro-choice activists to speak,” FIRE’s Adam Univision CEO shaking Kissel said. “While students are free to host debates, they must not be required to provide a Capitol Hill platform for their ideological opponents. Rather, those opponents must be free to spread their own messages and host their own events.” Most Distrusted: Government or CEOs? Right. My affirmative action cupcake “event” led to some interesting discussions. One young Battle between Main Street woman began by criticizing me, “It’s absolutely wrong.” and Wall Street hits midterms But after I raised the parallel with college admissions, she said: “No race of people is worth more than another. Or less.” But do you believe in affirmative action in colleges? I asked. “I used to,” she replied. Those are the kind discussions students should have. Affirmative action wasn’t the only issue that brought conservative Bucknell students grief. When they tried to protest President Obama’s $787 billion “stimulus” spending last year by handing out fake dollar bills, the school stopped them for violating rules against soliciting! According to FIRE, Bucknell’s solicitation policy covers only sales and fundraising, which the students were not engaged in, but the school rejected the students’ appeal, saying permission was needed to distribute “anything, from Bibles to other matter.” Absurd! The Bucknell administration tells me it stopped the anti-stimulus protest because the students had not registered to use that busy campus space. FIRE disputes that. FOX FORUM COLUMNISTS Lauren Green Liz Peek “Distributing protest literature is an American free-speech tradition that dates to before the Juan Williams Patrick Dorinson founding of the United States,” Kissel said. “Why is Bucknell so afraid of students handing out Ellen Ratner Fr. Jonathan Morris ‘Bibles [or] other matter' that might provide challenging perspectives? Colleges are supposed to Oliver North Bob Beckel be marketplaces of ideas, but Bucknell is betraying this ideal.” Geraldine Ferraro KT McFarland Ellis Henican Peter Johnson Jr. It is, indeed. Why are America’s institutions of higher learning so fearful? Alan Colmes Phil Kerpen John Stossel is host of "Stossel" on the Fox Business Network. The show airs Thursdays at 9 Michael Goodwin Mallory Factor p.m. and midnight ET. 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