CNN Wrote:(CNN) -- Campus Republicans at the University of California Berkeley have cooked up a storm of controversy with their plans for a bake sale.

But it's not your everyday collegiate fundraiser they've got in mind. They've developed a sliding scale where the price of the cookie or brownie depends on your gender and the color of your skin.

During the sale, scheduled for Tuesday, baked goods will be sold to white men for $2.00, Asian men for $1.50, Latino men for $1.00, black men for $0.75 and Native American men for $0.25. All women will get $0.25 off those prices.

"The pricing structure is there to bring attention, to cause people to get a little upset," Campus Republican President Shawn Lewis, who planned the event, told CNN-affiliate KGO. "But it's really there to cause people to think more critically about what this kind of policy would do in university admissions."

Lewis says it's a way to make a statement about pending legislation that would let the California universities consider race or national origin during the admission process.

But the young Republicans have been on the receiving end of a fierce backlash. Reaction has been so negative they've been forced to cancel their customary lunchtime tabling duties, according to KGO.

Lewis told CNN's Don Lemon that they expected a certain amount of opposition but not the level of outrage they experienced.

"We didn't expect the volume, the amount of response that we got," Lewis said. "In the first few hours, hundreds of posts on our Facebook page. And the tone of some of the responses -- we expected people to be upset. We didn't expect personal threats to

be made. They were implicit and explicit threats made to the organizers of the event, from burning down the table to throwing our baked goods at us and other kinds of physical threats."

Tim Wise, author of the book "White Like Me: Reflections on Race from a Privileged Son," calls the bake sale a "sarcastic and rather smarmy slap at people of color."

"There are a lot of ways to make a point about your disagreement with affirmative action," Wise told Lemon Saturday night.

"I get the joke," he continued. "How very original. It's been done for 15 years. The point that I think needs to be made ... is that by the time anyone steps on a college campus ... there has already been 12- to 13-years of institutionalized affirmative action for white folks, that is to say, racially embedded inequality, which has benefited those of us who are white. And it's only at the point of college admissions that these folks seem to get concerned with color consciousness."

Lewis insists, however, that Campus Republicans will go ahead with their bake sale and are committed to their controversial pricing structure.

 Shenanigans response

ITT: Sucks to be white.

Native American women get free baked goods?

Netto Wrote:I get the point they're trying to make. A bit...umm...edgy?
I don't think this was an appropriate way to get the point across though...

Born2BeMild Wrote:the kids are protesting racial preferences when it comes to admissions for college. They decided to protest in a way that everyone can see and understand: A racially charged bake sale! Those cookies better be worth the dollar I would be paying.

Rick Wrote:Because when white people protest inequality they're racist bigots.

JoeTang Wrote:Wait, so are white people backlashing over their outrageous cookie prices, or are those coloured folk backlashing because they get a discount?

Eliseo Wrote:EVERYONE must have equal chances of entering. That legislation is out of place. Just because I'm mexican I can't enter? Race, nation of origin, etc. should never be considered to enter a University. Grades, will to learn, knowledge, etc. are the stuff that the University should consider.

I think that the politician organizers behind the bake sale went a bit too far, but that legislation... just no.

Eliseo Wrote:EVERYONE must have equal chances of entering. That legislation is out of place. Just because I'm mexican I can't enter? Race, nation of origin, etc. should never be considered to enter a University. Grades, will to learn, knowledge, etc. are the stuff that the University should consider.

I think that the politician behind the bake sale went a bit too far, but that legislation... just no.

Throes Wrote:Um. I don't think you understand the point of "affirmative action." Your being a Mexican would make it easier for you to be accepted to the university compared to someone who is white or Asian.

It's stupid regardless.