California Set to Ban Grocery Store Checkout Lane Dividers.

Quote: "Most people don't assume rubber or plastic checkout lane dividers are the symbols of our country's history of division and intolerance they really are," said Skinner to Duh Progressive Tuesday. "And that's part of the problem —people don't realize when they're behaving in a way that is promoting segregation. People must know when they are fostering an atmosphere of hate or intimidation."

Quote: "When you look at how diverse we have become in California —the whole country, really— you see people buying groceries which reflect their unique cultures," Skinner further explained. "You see different people checking out different foods in line, and what message are we sending when we feel the need to shove some obtuse 16-inch chunk of rubber between those differences? It's saying, 'Your food is not welcome among mine...Your food isn't as good as mine, so you're culture isn't as good as mine; it must be segregated...'. Really, that's an ignorant, oppressive mindset of a bygone era, and we don't need that in California anymore."

http://duhprogressive.com/index.php/home...7-news/148

Is this for real?

I got a feeling that's a parody site... anything that includes "DuH" in the url...

It may be a joke making fun of California, but it sure sounds like something they would come up with in Berkeley.

It's one of the best written parodies then that I have ever seen.
The author needs to go onto other bigger and better things.

“You can’t have these rubber ...things, or devices, influencing how
we behave and still expect us all to get along," said Andrew Louis,
a PAAS member outside California's State House Tuesday."

I had a delayed reaction just reading it. Was really unsure if they
were serious or not.

It was written quite well.

Hard to tell parody from reality when they're talking of banning peanut butter sandwiches.

Still, this was very well done.