Indians Take Their Complaining to the Pages of the Daily Cal
The Angry Indians vs. SQUELCH! Party saga continues... I figured that after elections were over the Indian community here at Berkeley would have something more pressing to worry about than a silly little campaign poster, but I guess I was wrong. (I speak of the community as a whole, because I was talking to people in Indus about this on Thursday, and they said they had got word about the posters, and AAVP Rocky Gade called the Daily Cal last week to complain about the poster, so this column is merely one part of a larger response.) Here is an excerpt from the Daily Cal column, published today:

People passed out multi-colored handbills and glossy-print fliers urging every student that happened to walk by to vote some number for some position. But amid all the blue-and-white and green-and-black literature from the major parties was a collection of fliers from the SQUELCH! Party that began “Ghandi (sic) fucked your mom … ”

When I first saw the flier, I was irked, even slightly appalled. I suspect that this aspect of the SQUELCH! campaign strategy might not have been as effective as they might have hoped. As I stepped out of the fliering zone, I threw the stack of handbills I had collected into the recycling bin and made sure not to cast a single SQUELCH! Party vote.

Since I am not a SQUELCH! Party signatory, chair, or spokesman, I have no comments at this time, although I'm sure the SQUELCH! party will have a response to the charges in this column. Beetle has read through the column and offered some responses.... here is an excerpt (a quotation, and his response):

In contrast, Andy Ratto said on the Web log Calstuff, that "if the Indian Community think (sic) they can get some type of apology, I wish them good luck ..." The SQUELCH! Party couples their offensiveness with arrogance.

Arrogance is thinking that just because you were offended, the offending party must offer an apology, even though the reason you were offended is because you are easily offended.

P.S. I love that the way the Daily Cal got around to mentioning CalStuff was in a hit piece at the SQUELCH! Party.Email This Post!