‘Tyranny of a Minority’: The Left Freaks Out After Affirmative Action Ruled Unconstitutional
The NYT: “The major ruling curtails race-conscious college admissions in the U.S., all but ensuring that elite institutions become whiter and more Asian and less Black and Latino.”
LOL.
Here comes the freakout! They forget that Asian Americans brought the case against Harvard.
MSNBC claims now that affirmative action has been ruled unconstitutional, there will only be 3 black students per law school class. pic.twitter.com/sM2hxDWdPi
— Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) June 29, 2023
“The worst thing about affirmative action is that it created a Clarence Thomas.”
— NAACP President Derrick Johnson hammers the U.S. Supreme Court effectively ending affirmative action in college admissions pic.twitter.com/jECJBqrxZ5
— The Recount (@therecount) June 29, 2023
Supreme Court ruling on affirmative action=tyranny of a minority of Americans.
Polls find that a majority endorses affirmative action.— Michael Beschloss (@BeschlossDC) June 29, 2023
MSNBC's Antonia Hylton is at Harvard (the school that was discriminating against Asians) and she says the students there are "reeling" and "worried about…the makeup of their classes."
She did not speak with the Asian students that were rejected because of their race. pic.twitter.com/1A5Ru4v1Y6— Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) June 29, 2023
Liberal white woman, Dahlia Lithwick lectures the Asian students rejected from Harvard for their race by claiming they were wrong. She scoffs at their plight and falsely claims there’s “no evidence” they were discriminated against despite the SCOTUS ruling. pic.twitter.com/e2cUjSBqAu
— Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) June 29, 2023
Welcome to America,
where ppl opposing Affirmative Action
(bc they don't want a level playing field for minority ppl)
defend the Electoral College
(bc they want a level playing field for minority states)— John Fugelsang (@JohnFugelsang) June 29, 2023
RIP Affirmative Action. The white supremacist project took almost 70 years years to whittle away civil rights gains through the Supreme Court, but evil never sleeps. Voting has consequences https://t.co/nMFMNXtahM
— 𝐄𝐱𝐚𝐯𝐢𝐞𝐫 𝐏𝐨𝐩𝐞 (@exavierpope) June 29, 2023
Breaking News: The Supreme Court rejected affirmative action at Harvard and UNC. The major ruling curtails race-conscious college admissions in the U.S., all but ensuring that elite institutions become whiter and more Asian and less Black and Latino.https://t.co/SlMCRldkvN pic.twitter.com/flnORE7sHa
— The New York Times (@nytimes) June 29, 2023
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I have been musing on Affirmative Action for a long time now. It existed when I was in College in the 1970’s and, as an HR Executive in a government agency (now long retired) I saw it in practice in senior management selections. We sometimes had difficulty in finding a minority with adequate experience or credentials, but that never stopped us from selecting one whenever the chance arose. We needed the statistic which it seemed was more important than our tasking as an agency. Some selectees rose to the challenge; some didn’t.
But I began to ponder – how long is affirmative action going to be considered necessary? Are minorities aways going to be considered to need extra help?
The Supreme Court has provided an answer – but I fear it will only lead to increased attacks upon the Court in an attempt to delegitimize it.
Minorities do not need any extra help.
People who think that we do, they are simply racists. They paint themselves as “compassionate racists” but there is no such thing.
Racism is wrong, always.
They see minorities as pets.
But I began to ponder – how long is affirmative action going to be considered necessary? Are minorities aways going to be considered to need extra help?
This reminds me of my questions concerning reparations.
If we give the current generation of blacks “reparations” for slavery, what will prevent successive generations from making the same demands? Do we discharge all “responsibility” for slavery with a one-time payout to one generation of black Americans? Or will successive generations have a similarly valid (that is, possibly invalid) claim that requires a response? Upon what principle can successive generations of American blacks be denied reparations, for harm done to them by slavery, once any generation of them receives reparations?
You all know the answers to those questions.
I favor telling them to go screen themselves but that is not diplomatic.
There were thousands of blacks who owned slaves and some even owned large plantations. There were more than three thousand black slaver owners in New Orleans alone. To be fair, how could one decide which descendants should get reparations?
Democrats always have to be forced to stop discriminating based on race. They’ll still find a way to keep doing it, because it’s who they are.
End of the world nigh!
Women and (certain) minorities hardest hit!
How about lawsuits for damages to be paid to those unjustly denied admission.
The EXISTENCE of a DEI staff position not to mention the statements they used to justify it will be the basis of thousands of lawsuits against Universities and businesses.
Damn happy about it.
Wouldn’t this not happen per the no ex post facto rule?
The ex post facto “rule” prohibits only statutes that back-date criminal acts. The term does not apply to civil law. It prohibits the government from enacting statutes that back-date the definition of a crime, so that no defendant is tried under a law about which he could not have had knowledge.
(Some will balk at the idea that the prohibition on ex post facto laws only pertains to criminal statutes. If you’re one of those persons, I give you this:
Wednesday August 29th 1787. In Convention
“Mr. Dickenson mentioned to the House that on examining Blackstone’s Commentaries, he found the the terms, “ex post facto” related to criminal cases only; that they would not consequently constrain the States from retrospective laws in civil cases, and that some further provision for this purpose would be requisite.”
Friday Sep 14th 1787. In Convention
“Mr. Gerry 2dnd (seconded DG) the motion (to revise the ex post facto clause DG) but with a view to extend the prohibition to “Civil cases,” which he thought ought to be done.
On the question; all the States were–no”
From Notes of the Debates in the Federal Convention reported by James Madison.)
Like the overturning of Roe v Wade, this decision will be the new plank in the lying Democrat platform. They will milk this for all it’s worth and any black that even thought of leaving the plantation will be pulled back. Abortion, affirmative action, reparations, open borders, and gender-changing freedom for three-year-olds will be their agenda for 2024.
I am not entirely certain that adopting the battle cry of George Wallace’s 1963 Inaugural address ‘segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever’ (which is what all this counting, favoring or disfavoring by race and tribe is about) will be as well accepted by the majority. Plus the visuals and audio of a political ad split screen with Wallace and a candidate today would be interesting.
Polling shows a majority of all voters, by race and party affiliation sub demographic oppose using race/tribe as a determining factor above competence. In fairness those decades worth of polling data, while consistently showing a growing majority in opposition to using race/tribe were conducted before this ruling when it was an abstract concept. Now that it is in the real world reactions could differ as folks confront the reality of this.
Given that Wallace was a notoriously Democrat governor such a political ad would be a hoot to watch..
A political ad I’d love to see is one of the Republicans celebrating the beginning of the end of American apartheid.
Well yeah that’s the point of the ad to show that the d/prog don’t stray from their racist roots. They always want to divide us by race into tribal blocs. A few decades ago they added sex and in now ‘gender’, all 87 of them, into their arsenal of division.
It doesn’t have to be accepted by the majority. It just have to be accepted by enough people to get 51% of the vote.
In deep blue CA a referendum to overturn the existing CA ban on Affirmative Action failed 57/43. That was in 2020 mind you, the summer of the BLM ‘mostly peaceful protests’.
If they can’t get an electoral majority in deep blue CA, the mecca of progressive governance and wild ass policies during peak BLM then I would submit that getting it done elsewhere, much less nationally, is unlikely at best.
I can’t post right now. I have to go get another box of kleenex.
Hmmm…
Let’s use racism to end racism.
Let’s use racism to hire people, instead of hiring the best qualified (and yes, non whites include best qualified).
Let’s use racism to select from college applicants, and then complain that it’s racism to not use race as a deciding factor.
Democrats – racists since 1619.
It’s been their “project.”
Seems to me there’s a huge loophole in the decision. It states that a person’s experiences related to their skin color can exhibit skills and barriers overcome, which can be used in considering admission. Every applicant in the helpless victim group now pens a sob story of their trials and tribulations worth, to pick a random number, about 200 SAT points.
ChatGPT will be used.
And detected. It will be fun.
The problem is two fold. They can’t use race as a proxy. They must use an individual evaluation. Most of the AA admissions go to upper middle class kids who live nice, comfortable lives not some hardscrabble, plucky kid who overcame true disadvantage.
The second problem is going to be the discovery process when they inevitably do try to do something through the back door as you suggest. A future plaintiff will need to see the entire workings of the admission process and the Univ gonna have to decide if they want to risk a CT ordered discovery into their process. It’s gonna be hard to defend a repetition of similar case facts after this ruling and get by with saying ‘trust us, our opaque process (which is proprietary and super secret so no peeking) is totes legit and complies with this ruling’.
If the disadvantaged applicant fails to meet the admission standard of any given school, then that applicant didn’t “overcome” his “disadvantages.” He failed to overcome adversity with respect to those schools for which he doesn’t qualify. Which means that he did overcome diversity with respect to those schools for which he does qualify. And there are plenty of white kids (and doubtless some Asians) who fit into the former category. Not all white kids grow up specially privileged in any way, and many grow up very decidedly with disadvantages.
Yeah. That’s the point, the university wants to use race/immutable characteristics as a proxy, to substitute group membership for individual achievement in overcoming individual adversity or disadvantage.
That’s the surface level. Below the surface one level is the desire to maintain a fixed ratio of race/tribal representation among those accepted. Go deeper and the impact widens from elite universities and creates a cascade effect of academic mismatch from top to bottom.
With, nearly, every university doing this the supply of super high performing applicants is far outstripped by demand. So the Ivies suck up kids that would be good at a top public university. That means the top public university now has to reach downward to find the # of applicants they want. This goes all the way down to JC.
There are large numbers of student drop outs concentrated in ‘minority’ students now burdened with student debt who convinced themselves that they should go to X univ v Y univ b/c they were encouraged by univ recruiters who need to make their own # to achieve a diverse student demo.
Every applicant in the helpless victim group now pens a sob story of their trials and tribulations . . .
Pens an story? You really think blacks are going to be able to “pen a sob story” when most blacks cannot even read nor write upon graduation from high school? Heck, the only way a black will be able to “pen a sob story” is if someone else writes the essay for them and they simply sign their illiterate signature at the bottom.
Don’t know why you got downvoted as school statistics bear everything you’ve said out. If the downvoters need proof all ghey need to do is Google Baltimore schools passing failing black students.
“Pens an story”
“cannot even read nor write”
Behold the white genius.
What makes you think he is white?
I’ll let you get back to your daily routine of glue sniffing.
So edgy. So cutting.
“What makes you think”
Easy on the sophisticated prose there, Tolstoy.
As a super-intelligent shade of blue, my malopropisms are for effect. (Or is that “affect?”) You’d get if you were brighter.
Effect. And a malapropism is akin to “Rome wasn’t burnt in a day”, or, @Yiu can observe a lot by watching “.
We’re you going for “you’d get IT,” you pretentious mediocrity? Oh well, you gave it a shot.
Well, that joke didn’t land at all.
May I axe you a question as to the implement used to manually chop a tree down with?
That has puzzled me for years. After 12 years of education it is pronounced thusly, and shows incredible ignorance.
Continue the charade. None of us see it at all.
The true remedy for that situation is to end the Department of Education, and send the money to the schools. The Department of Education has presided over a very destructive trend for all of our schools (except the private ones).
The creation of the next federal department must be linked to standards for success, that if not met within a certain length of time results in the abolition of the department.
Even without the prior establishment of such criteria, there is no criterium by which the Dept. of Education can be deemed “successful.” It should be abolished as an abject and complete failure.
no, the true remedy is to abolish government schools
Do a ctrl-F on the constitution with the search word ‘education’. It will return zero hits. The tenth amendment is quite clear about subjects that are properly the purview of the states.
In no way should the federal government have any say regarding education. Abolish the DOE, return all authority to the states.
Erronius
better yet – abolish government schools
They can buy one on line.
Lucifer Morningstar — You are a g_d damn racist. Please crawl back under the rock you came from.
Lucifer Morningstar wrote: “most blacks cannot even read nor write.”
Go f**k yourself, you racist.
They have already been doing just that.
My wife taught in Chinatown, NY City a long time ago and said there were plenty of poor Asian kids. Now, a story of the trials and tribulations of helping your family make ends meet by shoplifting in stores might be a different story that would appeal to Harvard.
I have 2 friends living in NYC of Chinese ancestry. Both came from the poorest neighborhood in Honolulu and went to a rough public school. They were both academic champions in high school math competitions and other disciplines and graduated from Harvard with honors before Asians were largely excluded by the diversity regime.
I wonder how many other poor, exceptionally smart, hardworking and focused Asian students were denied admission to allow much wealthier but worse students from the preferred races to attend?
I applaud this decision and if there is going to be anyone denied to make room for other candidates start by excluding the children of politicians, government bureaucrats (other than uniformed military) and the families of university professors and administrators.
Not just Asian, and not just admission — funding and support systems, for two more.
My mother, the daughter of immigrants, lived in a very poor, but impeccably clean, neighborhood (I remember it myself, before it was destroyed for the building of I-95 through Pawtucket, RI). Throughout my 66 years, she has several time said “Being poor doesn’t have to mean being dirty,” because she learned this from the families in her neighborhood, the type of community in which the ladies nearly every day swept the sidewalks in front of tenements they didn’t even own.
It should be clear that being poor only means one thing – you’re poor. If it means anything else, it’s because your culture has taught you that that is so, and you feel obligated to live out the role imposed upon you by your culture.
“…being poor only means one thing – you’re poor.”
You are are more vulnerable to bad luck, and less able to exploit good luck. It throttles your relative progress.
And yet there are people down voting you for calling out that cretin for what he is.
God forbid that people be judged on their abilities, knowledge and character…
“MSNBC claims now that affirmative action has been ruled unconstitutional, there will only be 3 black students per law school class.”‘
Affirmative action in the form of lowered acceptance criteria for certain races/ethnicities has been used by colleges and post-graduate schools for generations. It has worked so well that one of those races still supposedly couldn’t manage better than half a percent admission rate to Harvard when that race makes up 12% of the populace? Maybe the way affirmative action has been practiced is a failure that should be abandoned? How about practicing affirmative action at the front end, getting kids to emulate the patterns followed by successful kids, oh let’s say the Asians kids?
The bigotry of low expectations. Charles Payne said that. MSNBC has no self awareness.
Glad you reminded me. His show is on in about 3 minutes. Should be interesting today.
Why don’t they just shut up already, and go lick some magic mushrooms?
You lick toads.
Go croak. 🐸
It always triggers teh minority when you remind them they are the minority and its bene majority rule here until the 60s. This in fact is a case in point.
Some liberals are secretly happy, but can’t say so publicly. However, sales of Bud Light have increased significantly.
Really? Last I heard they were down PERMANENTLY 26%
Maybe some lefty billionaires are buying it
Just finished the major opinion and the concurrences of Thomas and Gorsuch. There will be much wailing and gnashing of teeth in academia.
In fact, Carmen Twillie Ambar, the Black president of Oberlin College and an attorney, is already out with some of that “wailing and gnashing of teeth” in a letter to alumnae.
So fast? I can’t wait to see the typos and grammar errors.
I agree. After all. It’s Oberlin.
She has a base to stir up. Like the SCOTUS’ eventual blocking or overturning of Trump’s prosecution by DOJ, these seeming set-backs to the liberal agenda will be weaponized to promote packing of the SCOTUS.
Here comes the nationwide leftist temper tantrum – II.
Could someone point out where in the constitution the phrase “minority state ” is found
It’s on the back, but you need lemon juice and blow dryer to see it.
Your use of science here is racist.
And, it’s in cursive.
Slightly off topic- just spoke to a friend who works in the epicenter of woke (name your top 10… w/out saying city of San Fran) this place would be in it.
So remember over the vax requirements they fired all the skilled blue collar guys who do actual work? Well as it turns out, the “break up” is real as they can’t back fill most of these positions. While skilled blue collar guys are at a premium right now- the allure of paid vacations, steady work and health insurance should be more than enough.
Nope- working guys ain’t having it. Not sure why they can’t train their coveted skin colors to do this work- perhaps they all got jobs coding?
I hear that a hell of a lot of working people have left, with their families.
A million men can move a mountain, but only one can direct the lift. Labor is unlimited but skill is a finite resource. Industry is fucking around and finding out that caveat emptor applies to the worker when he makes a choice. All the Taiwanese industry pouring in here will not be well accepted…just saying.
Wonderful, I’m going to enjoy watching UT Austin get this ruling jammed down their throats.
Ketanji Brown Jackson strongly dissented from the majority opinion. When asked why she was in favor of affirmative action said, “Well, duh! If it wasn’t affirmative action I wouldn’t be on the Supreme Court.”
One of the three judges who dissented couldn’t even say what a woman is.
Lol true that!!!
Probably true, she wasn’t smart enough to get in or be promoted on her own merits
The Babylon Bee has an absolutely hilarious take on this similar to your comment.
https://babylonbee.com/news/awkward-supreme-court-rules-against-affirmative-action-with-affirmative-action-hire-standing-right-there
They even threw the press secretary in for good measure. I laughed for a half-hour.
Erronius
“There are three classes of people: those who see. Those who see when they are shown. Those who do not see.”
― Leonardo da Vinci
Todays decision cloaks a permission slip for colleges to use race. Fooled again.
Jonathan Turley:
…However, the Court appears to be supplying the draft for college essays. It says that students can still raise (and colleges consider) their individual struggle with racism.
…Schools will likely pivot as they did after the Bakke decision. They will now score individual struggles with race as part of the application process. High school academic advisers are likely reframing their essay guidelines as Roberts reads his opinion from the bench.
Here is the new high school guideline for college admissions advisersL “nothing in this opinion should be construed as prohibiting universities from considering an applicant’s discussion of how race affected his or her life, be it through discrimination, inspiration, or otherwise. “
This is a test to see which students will use ChatGPT to get admitted and will also use ChatGPT to grduate. Now, will they use ChatGPT to finish your open-heart in a timely manner?
Just wait until they learn that white kids also have parents who struggle with alcohol or drugs. There goes that dodge. Of course, in white families it is still an issue of shame and embarrassment. Maybe that will change when we are given our Month.
Harvard loses no time in calling attention to the loophole saying they will comply with it.
https://twitter.com/whyvert/status/1674464499678556185
The problem the Left has with this decision is they love biased decisions that favor the Left and want to get unqualified kids into elite schools (equality) without those students having done the work and earning the credentials that would get them admitted on their own. The real problem is the DOE holds back grants to schools that don’t meet their minority quotas.
But, but, the Republicans are abolishing the Deptvof Ed! Ronald Reagan said so.
Truth, didn’t see this coming
I noticed the hysterical quote from Michael Beschloss. It seems that every time I have seen or heard him over the last several years, it appears like he is becoming gradually more unglued. Maybe he sees that as necessary to get face-time on the MSM. Could also be that he needs to beef up his meds a bit.
He has truly slip’d the surly bonds of earth lately!
I have to disagree with this decision (if I understand it correctly). Racial discrimination is not un-Constitutional and is not a violation of the 14th amendment. BUT, colleges and universities that choose to use racism in admissions should lose all federal monies – ALL.
Private schools that pay for themselves and don’t take any money from the government should certainly be free to pick and choose the students they want, based on whatever criteria they want – even just on the whim of admissions personnel, if that’s what they want to do with their money and school.
This should just be about federal money going to schools that practice racism in admissions.
How about private organizations that don’t get federal money? Country clubs for example. Should they be able to chose their members based on race as well?
Absolutely. People have every right to associate with the people they choose.
That should be extended to any and all providing goods or services.
I think this is the correct take. Freedom of association should exist.
As should freedom of contract. We have it until 1964.
Agreed. To interpret the decision in any other way abolishes freedom of association (for private persons and institutions).
I agree with you in principle. The ban on federal monies must extend to student loans as well. What many people do not understand is the cost of laboratories. Even a modest physics or engineering laboratory is expensive.
Take out ALL federal money, then you can discriminate all you want, Fully agreed on your point.
Erronius
But after destroying the levels of power in the US by making state legislation useless by the state Courts
I’d say the Country is still done
Where’s my fork
Now do military selection/promotion programs, civil service quotas, federal loan preferences, etc.
And specifically address sex/gender quotas as well.
Maybe there will be more white actors in tv commercials!
What about the problem of ugly in commercials? I might briefly pay attention if there is an attractive lady, I do in a blink of an eye kill ugly.
So many biracial marriages
THAT is pure unadulterated dreaming! BTW, what is a TV commercial? I haven’t subjected myself to one of those in years.
A TV commercial is a paid advertisement, presented on cable channels that supplanted broadcast TV with the promise of being “advertisement free.”
21st century Jarndyce.
Now that the Asians have finally won fair access to “the nation’s best schools,” they have all devolved into CCP theme parks.
Trust me. The smart Asians who get out of China have zero plans to go back. They would go to Mexico, the Honduras, or Canada first (in that order). 😉
Isn’t there a fairly well established system of China spying on their nationals in our universities?
And, spying on us and stealing taxpayer funded research.
I think Grizzly stated yesterday the sac would get rid of AA but not really, paraphrasing,
He was right
I was just facing reality, Gonz…
They’ll use the not so secret handshake for admissions now…
The litigation that follows this decision will be vicious as universities attempt to square their DEI objectives with the new reality.
What will become apparent to all in the coming years is that this racial issue was tangential to the real problem in higher education, which is the tsunami of federal and state monies that flood these schools and pay for their overpriced, underpar educational kabuki theater. If schools did not receive so much free money from outside they would never even think of being so cavalier in their admissions policies. Schools practice retarded racism because they are paid to do it.
Taking away the straight racist entrance policies will not stop the leftists from finding rules to get back to exactly what they want. Remember, the origin of intentional disparate impact was in law and procedure the left fashioned to target black groups without having to write “black” anywhere. This is why it’s so funny that the same leftists are playing such a heated pantomime about being against “disparate impact” (even when unintentional!) for any law or procedures they don’t like.
In the end, schools will not be fixed until the free federal money tsunami is stopped and the schools are forced to pay for themselves and their students are forced to pay for their own educations. Within that environment, there is nothing wrong with any school using any criteria they want to use.
Beschloss is wrong. Even lefty-loony California, in November of 2020, just after the summer of love/BLM, voted 57% against affirmative action in admissions. That was up from 53% in 1996, the last time a referendum on the subject was on the ballot.
Affirmative action can’t even win in California!
The message that Twillie Ambar just sent out to Oberlin Alumni simply defines butthurt. She honestly believes that you can have diversity AND academic excellence. The fact that Oberlin’s rankings since I attended having been dropping like a rock disagree. Too bad that Pauli isn’t around to weigh in on this one. 😉
Her letter referred to Affirmative Action as leading to (quote) what Nobel Laureate and Lorain, Ohio, native Toni Morrison described as “the dance of an open mind when it engages another equally open one.” That was indeed the case when I went there well before the Bakke decision. But, when was the last time anyone saw that in one of these colleges. They literally attack people with different views.
Dang, coment form Aceofspadeshq
“Admissions will be based 100% on student essays, or, let’s be honest and call them Student Declarations of Grievance and Disadvantage, because that’s all they’ll be going forward.
The Princeton, New Jersey, high school senior Ziad Ahmed was recently admitted to Stanford University after writing #BlackLivesMatter 100 times in response to the application question, “What matters to you and why?”
Haha! We’re ALREADY implementing it!!!”
“RIP Affirmative Action.”
It won’t. It will now be like the walking dead.
I just saw a response to a tweet which stated “millions will get to live with the consequences of allowing Donald Trump near the White House.” Is that because they will now get competent doctors to care for them? I be confused.
I heard that Joe Biden claimed in the wake of this ruling that the Supreme Court is “not normal”. It will be interesting to hear them explain what the hell that means.
“Justice Clarence Thomas eviscerated Justice KBJ in his concurrence. He held absolutely nothing back and I’m living for it.”
https://twitter.com/JavonAPrice/status/1674449117194465281
KBJ is a disgrace.
When people ask, “What shall we do with the Negro?” I have had but one answer from the beginning. Do nothing with us! Your doing with us has already played the mischief with us. Do nothing with us! If the apples will not remain on the tree of their own strength, if they are wormeaten at the core, if they are early ripe and disposed to fall, let them fall! I am not for tying or fastening them on the tree in any way, except by nature’s plan, and if they will not stay there, let them fall. And if the Negro cannot stand on his own legs, let him fall also. All I ask is, give him a chance to stand on his own legs! Let him alone!
—Frederick Douglass
“There is a certain class of race problem-solvers who don’t want the patient to get well, because as long as the disease holds out they have not only an easy means of making a living, but also an easy medium through which to make themselves prominent before the public.” ~ Booker T. Washington
NYT: The major ruling curtails race-conscious college admissions in the U.S., all but ensuring that elite institutions become whiter and more Asian and less Black and Latino.
Wrong. The decision appears to abolish race-based college admissions, while allowing race-conscious admission practices. They are not the same things.
And if blacks and latinos have a problem getting into some schools, they should do what the white kids do that have a similar problem – work/study harder. Blacks and latinos are not the only people shut out of some universities by high standards. The Left thinks blacks and latinos should be given a pass because of their races, while white kids in similar situations are just shut out. Nobody considers these white kids, or, if they do, they’re told their problems can be solved by “trying harder.” This is sound advice, no matter the color of one’s skin..
Interesting repositioning of the argument for diversity buried in there.
— Was “diversity in student body is academic, development, cultural good.” + That won’t happen w/o explicit help.
— New implicit standard is something like “It’s individual merit based.” + “Show how your rubric should be adjusted for circumstance.”
Such a can of worms that latter puts on the applicants and evaluators. /moar popcorn
Beschloss is a vile personality. Reflexively promoting the Dumb-o-crat line and Narrative(TM) without fail, like a good little lapdog/trained seal. The guy has written a few hagiographies and now fancies himself a legal expert.
I get it. About 50 years age affirmative action was started as a means to correct what might be called affirmative action for white people. Doors(?) were opened for black people but closed to other races to correct racial imbalance. Now affirmative action is closing doors to Asian people because they work hard and are more worthy of higher education than many other racial classes but the protected black people don’t like it. It’s time black people stand on their own two feet and compete like other Americans do. It’s time black people show the world they don’t need a thumb on the scale to compete.
Make Latin and Calculus mandatory for college admission. They are both fundamental to Western civilization.
College was once in the not-so-distant past reserved for the top ten percent of high-schoolers. Now, almost everyone goes to college and many of the degrees on offer are absurd.
Make the Universities responsible for 50% of loans lended to students. Their admissions policies will be tightened up hard if they are on the hook for student loans. This would also have a palliative effect on tuition.
I’m probably going to get heat for this post, but it is what I believe.
Erronius