Dear BUGSers,

Imagine a handful of people standing in the middle of the main quad of every Ivy-League university holding up signs that each say “Africa for the Africans, Asia for the Asians, White Countries for Everybody.” This would happen simultaneously at each university, with the date and time chosen for maximum media impact.

I am regrettably quite familiar with the culture of “elite” academia. These folks are entirely obsessed with themselves, to the extent that just about any mishap, no matter how trivial, gets media attention so long as the term Ivy League or Harvard can get tacked on the headline. Alumni of these universities are disproportionately represented in the media. The news media (including Drudge Report) love a juicy Ivy League scandal.

Also consider the cultures of these universities themselves. Indeed, the cultures are such that whenever a white so much farts in the general vicinity of a minority, it is a running scandal that all but monopolizes the student papers at the university. All of the minority student groups have an INCENTIVE to blow racial incidents out of proportion in order to extort more funding for their pet programs. I know BUGS focuses on disseminating its message all over the place, but it wouldn’t hurt to also think about impact. Might not be such a bad thing for the MANTRA to take a central role in campus discussion at the Ivy League.

Finally, while the actual message on the signs would be negotiated in later stages of planning, I think the “Africa for the Africans, Asia for the Asians, White Countries for Everybody” is the best message for this particular stunt. In addition to being the best of your slogans (its the one that got me interested in BUGS) it is actually diabolically ambiguous, unlike other ones like ARIACWFAW. In fact, the Africa for the Africans message is entirely PC and appropriate so long as one sincerely believes it. Imagine paying illegal immigrants to hold the sign up “sincerely.” This flexibility is something that hasn’t been sufficiently exploited, but is a somewhat separate issue from my proposal itself, so i’ll save it for another day.

I know you are all busy and have several important projects competing for your attention. But consider this one, and the impact it could have.

yours,
pd’appui