This is great. The campus Republicans at UCLA had an affirmative action bake sale.

The sale, held on Bruin Walk on Feb. 3, offered cookies at different prices depending on the customer’s race and gender. Black, Latina and American Indian females were charged 25 cents for cookies that cost males of minority descent 50 cents. White females were charged $1, and white males and all Asian Americans were charged $2.

Students selling the cookies were assigned name tags portraying them as “Uncle Tom,” “The White Oppressor” and “Self-Hating Hispanic Race Traitor.”

It really knotted up Art Torres’ knickers.

Torres, a former California state senator, believes UCLA Republicans have been “emboldened” by the recent race-sensitive remarks by various Republican leaders, specifically citing Trent Lott’s, R-Miss., comments and Congressman Howard Coble’s, R-N.C., praise of internment camps for Japanese Americans during World War II.

“It is a shame that Republicans at UCLA have chosen to mimic the extreme views of their Republican leaders,” Torres said.

What a disgusting cretin. Just when did the notion of equality under the law become an “extreme view”? And what does this have to do with Trent Lott?

Juan Carlos-Orellana, president of the Democratic Law Students Association, responded to the event with similar indignation, referring to the bake sale as an “insulting trivialization of the serious issue of race and gender equality.”

Orellana sees the effort by the Bruin Republicans as detrimental to the discussion of affirmative action.

“By reducing the complexity of this issue into dollars and cents and cookies they are working to stop discourse,” he said.

Translation: “We don’t really have a logical rebuttal to the satirical demonstration of the absurdity of our views, so we’ll pretend instead that they’re censoring us.”

They’ve really got no arguments left, folks.