A CORONA TWIST ON THE AFFIRMATIVE ACTION BAKE SALE?

Discriminatory pricing at campus bake sales used to be a way of calling attention to perceived inequalities of varying kinds, and if your tariff displeased the administrators, you'd have problems.  That the newest post on that theme is ten years old suggests there are other ways to engage in guerrilla theater, or perhaps that everybody is too tired to call attention.

But then, there's a student project at Michigan State.  "Recently, a MeAnna Durham set up a display at Michigan State University charging $10 for masks to White students, but giving them away for free to non-White students."

The message seems to have been lost on at least some students.

Matthew Bauerle, a graduate student, said he was confused about what the project was trying to prove.

“An explicit goal was to get people to say ‘what if it was reversed’ which the student said was the actual case in the USA. I don’t know of any place that explicitly gives out product to white people for free but price gouges minorities,” Bauerle told Campus Reform.

Bauerle also explained why the social experiment was not a good idea, and how it may have broken university guidelines.

“My opinion was that it was a disgusting project that explicitly violates University policy. Because masks are required for most indoor activities, it could be interpreted to be a white only fee for activities," he said. "The fact that this was a class project makes it worse because it was approved by a professor.”

And perhaps Student Affairs have filled the campus with enough programming that students treat anything that looks like the Diversity Hustlers are at work as just more background noise.

Ronin Hackworth, also a student, told Campus Reform, “There’s a weird fascination with race in universities and MSU is certainly no expectation to that.”

Hackworth added, “With the university the way it is, I’ve learned to just kind of roll my eyes and get on with my day.”

Michigan State officials have not responded to Campus Reform.