Please Litter! Support Your Groundskeeper!
Quite often, conservatives claim that some policy advocated by liberals “hurts the very people it’s intended to help.” This is a common claim about minimum wage laws, affirmative action, welfare, and so on. It’s often arguable, but in this one particular case, it’s undeniable.
Professor Bainbridge (UCLA Law School) reports that students are supporting a strike by UCLA groundskeepers with a demonstration, and they are publicizing that demonstration by plastering flyers on the walkways, which those same groundskeepers will have to get down on their knees and clean up, instead of (a) do nothing, or (b) sweep them up while standing or riding a Turf-Vac, like they do with normal litter.
A group of UCLA students plan a student strike tomorrow in support of a one-day strike by UCLA service workers, whose union includes custodians and groundskeepers …
In their zeal, the students have plastered these posters on sidewalks all over campus; e.g., in the sculpture garden …
You will have spotted the irony, of course: the groundskeepers the kids purport to be supporting are the very people who will have to get these glued-down posters off the sidewalks. …
Most of the kids probably don’t have limos yet, since in this town kids with limos tend to go to USC, but they certainly have got the whole limousine liberal mentality down pat.
(Hat tip: Eugene Volokh.)
