Northeastern Illinois University Bans Affirmative Action Bake Sale, Threatens Protestors with Punishment
At NEIU, a conservative group was going to hold an "Affirmative Action" bake sale. This is where minorities are charged less for the same items than Whites and Asians, to represent a protest of Affirmative Action... The group was threatened by the university...
One small problem: The NEIU Feminist Majority Leadership Alliance held a "Pay Equity Bake Sale" in which men were charged more than women for the same items, to protest the payment gap between the sexes...
NEIU Replied to
FIRE by sending a response which loosely translates to: "We don't want to compare these issues, so we are ignoring these facts because we believe we have no obligation to acknowledge the obvious [that we are very hippocritical]."
In other words, as too many universities do, they support a liberal (feminist) groups events but ban an identical type event held by a conservative group...