We recently reported that Young Conservatives of Texas were attacked for their recent affirmative action bake sale at the University of Texas.

Jennifer Kabbany of The College Fix folllow-up with the group, who are thoroughly denouncing the attacks.

A spokeswoman for the group, UT senior Cody Jo Bankhead, also said in an interview with The College Fix that despite being called names and “an embarrassment to the university” by some students and alumni because of the bake sale, they are confident in their position and unswayed by name calling.

“We are not intimidated in the slightest,” she said. “We are still firm in what we believe.”

The crux of the bake sale controversy is the Young Conservatives of Texas-Austin’s pricing sign that listed the brownies and cookies as follows: “$2 white,” “$1.50 Asians,” “$1 Latino,” “75 cents Black,” and “.25 cents Native American.” On the side of the sign it read: “25 cents off for all women.”

…The controversy continues to escalate. Bankhead has been interviewed by several national news outlets in the last few days.

“Things have not really calmed down,” she said. “We are still getting a lot of backlash from liberal organizations and the newspaper on campus, as well as in Texas newspapers and across the nation in general.”

One of the first negative responses came from Dr. Gregory Vincent, vice president for diversity and community engagement at the University of Texas at Austin, who had stated on the school’s website ”such methods are inflammatory and demeaning … focusing our attention on the provocative nature of the YCT’s actions ignores a much more important issue: they create an environment of exclusion and disrespect among our students, faculty and staff.”

“The choice of a tiered pricing structure creates the misperception that some students either do not belong at the university or do not deserve to have access to our institution—or worse, that they belong or deserve only to a certain degree.”

The Young Conservatives, in their response, called those accusations ”salacious” and “defamatory,” as well as meritless.

“Our bake sale was meant to, through caricature, spark an educated conversation about the affirmative action policies that the University practices, although Dr. Vincent suggests the intent was ‘to create an environment of exclusion and disrespect,’ ” the young conservatives said.