<p>^that actually is an extremely true response.</p>
<p>i go to UC Davis and I am a junior female african american student and I do feel uncomfortable here. I am from san diego and people up here definitely treat me different. it is very unfortunate</p>
<p>yes that is true but unfortunately there arent that many intelligent people, and ones that are, still continue to put down other people for being different. I used to act as if racism doesnt exist that much, and yes I am lucky to live in california and not experience the worst of it, but if you are a minority, especially with dark skin, its not so easy to be so positive when you’ve grown up being called names like “burnt toast” i will never forget all the times I have been put down for being who i was born to be. I currently attend UC Davis, and here I feel the looks and people treat me differently from others and its very unfortunate</p>
<p>Check it out, there’s always gonna be someone better than you, there will always be someone smarter, faster, better-looking, and in this world, there will always be HATERS! light your blunt at UCSC and stroll on.</p>
<p>This is impolite. I don’t want to discuss about this. T_T</p>
<p>I have yet to be admitted into a UC school, but I know tons of people that go and when they come back in the summer they give me an idea of what school life is like. Here is what I’m told:</p>
<p>UC Irvine - lots of tension between Muslim and Jewish students so I’m told. Apparently antisemitism is kind of a problem there.
UC Santa Barbara - very WHITE school. that’s all I know. Night and day if you come from a very diverse SoCal city.
UC Davis - NOT racist. The whole OWS is what has caused problems, nothing inspired by racism.
UC San Diego - only UC campus I’ve personally visited. Stayed with a friend who goes there. Yes, lots of Asians but no hatred as far as I’m told.
UCSC - Hard to be racist when you’re always high. </p>
<p>only know one person who goes to UCB and nobody at UCR/UCM.</p>
<p>“UC Davis - NOT racist. The whole OWS is what has caused problems, nothing inspired by racism.”</p>
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<li>It actually had nothing to do with OWS it was a protest of the tuition increase.</li>
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<p>@ sadeez im very sorry to hear. did they tell you to sit in the back of the bus? I suggest you drop out before your life is in further danger</p>
<p>^ haha i see what you did there.</p>
<p>Look, I’m a Davis undergrad, and if that school, and everything I’ve heard about most other schools is any indication, the only real complaint that should be made about racial attitudes in American colleges today is the way that they constantly propagandize against European culture and people of European descent. They reduce the last 2000 years of European history to a Chomsky-and-Zinn-centered catalog of torture and brutality committed by us European “savages” against the “civilized” non-white people of the world (totally ignoring, of course, the fact that Chomsky and Zinn, as tenured professors at very exclusive universities, owe their comfortable lives to “white imperialism”, and are thus total hypocrites). In my opinion, the way in which a Bachelor’s has been made mandatory for virtually everything over the last twenty years is just a means to force anyone in our society who wants to make over minimum wage (particularly Caucasians)through nearly a half-decade (minimally)of liberal indoctrination, while living in constant fear of exclusion and persecution by students and faculty alike if you question their viewpoint. The idea that non-white people experience ANY discouragement in college anymore (or, at least, any discrimination that could be cured by a means other than their becoming the majority, a situation which so much of this propaganda is geared toward creating), at most any university that anyone cares about, is pretty much preposterous. With all of the stupid racial/ sexual politics that goes on, determining who and who doesn’t deserve a chance to make a living and trying to provide the “appropriate” handicaps and/ or assistance to everyone (while China and India, of course, are just trying to win by any means necessary), it’s a miracle America hasn’t fallen even further behind than we have.</p>
<pre><code> As far as recent incidents of “racism” and discrimination at U.C. Davis and other campuses go, I think they should be viewed in light of two things: 1.) The incident at Claremont McKenna a few years back where a faculty member was found to have vandalized her own vehicle with anti-Semitic slogans, and 2.) The recent election of President Obama. Almost no-one has actually been caught in connection with these events, Davis has had other recent instances of “false” incidents of persecution (see the scandal involving the fixing of statistics for campus sex-crimes), and these situations all came up almost exactly a year after Obama’s election. This suggests to me that at least some of them may have been orchestrated by the “victimized” groups themselves, in the attempt to hold onto their “victim” status, privileged intellectually (and, more importantly, financially)in liberal culture, in a political environment where people are less and less disposed to listen to non-Caucasians (/non-heterosexuals, non-males, etc., etc., etc., ad infinitum)talking about how much worse their lives are, as evidence to the contrary seems to be piling up. Cynical, I know, but let’s face it, people can be bastards.
Finally, with regard to the Alexandra Wallace incident: The things she said were certainly racist, but doesn’t the level of retaliation taken against her make her look sort of right? I mean, she made a couple of bigoted comments about Asians, and the next thing you know, she was driven out of the school, with death threats yet. It looks like Asians basically run the school, and anyone who says anything they don’t like will be run straight out of it. When this is the kind of response that good, liberal Democrats give to disagreement, they don’t seem very different than their “evil, heartless” conservative Republican opponents. The only substantive difference is that they have different preferred targets for discrimination, who happen to be Caucasian instead of non-Caucasian. To my mind, this doesn’t leave Caucasians with any self-respect much choice as to who to vote for, and if things have reached the point where everyone has to go in fear of discrimination for contradicting the liberal viewpoint, anyone who’s opposed to those views can no longer afford to just “keep their head down” and wait for the time when they’ll have enough power to change things without experiencing consequences. It’s now self-evident that that time will never come, and unless people start speaking up now, it will only get worse.
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<p>Sorry that went on a bit, but it’s a subject that’s had a lot of real effect on my life as a hated “white heterosexual male from a vaguely Christian, middle-class background”, so I figured I would try to give a nuanced, detailed response, even if barely anyone reads it, and most of those who do dismiss it as “anecdotal.”</p>
<p>nail on the head about alexandria wallace. the methods many people took/were taking was just straight up nasty.</p>
<p>I don’t really understand why you would ask a question like this.</p>
<p>because it exists and being in such an environment creates hostility</p>
<p>i know this is an offtopic question but do UC’s care about state of residency for transfer applicants??</p>
<p>Racism exists everywhere and done by anyone. Hopefully, we are to; if we experience one, to overcome it with maturity and wisely. I hope that no one will fall into the darkside for whatever reason. </p>
<p>And remember folks–intolerance to those that are intolerant does not mean you are tolerant.</p>
<p>it is not that easy…</p>