Harvard Crimson Editors in ‘Despair’ Over Supreme Court Ruling on Affirmative Action
“A loss for our University, a loss for progress, and a loss for our nation resound in the aftermath of this decision.”
These students seem to believe that ‘diversity’ cannot exist without Affirmative Action in place. Going to Harvard doesn’t prove that you’re smart.
The College Fix reports:
‘We despair’: Harvard Crimson editors bemoan Supreme Court decision
The editorial board of The Harvard Crimson student newspaper recently lamented the Supreme Court’s overturning of affirmative action.
“We despair at the Court’s striking of race-conscious admissions,” began the June 30 editorial, titled “Harvard’s Fight to Keep Diversity Alive is Just Beginning.”
“We now find ourselves in a state of utter post-affirmative action loss,” it continued. “A loss for our University, a loss for progress, and a loss for our nation resound in the aftermath of this decision.”
Aside from agreement on a single point, that “no racial group is a monolith,” the decision is “reeking of a repulsive ‘let-them-eat-cake obliviousness’ to systemic racism, per Associate Justice Ketanji Brown-Jackson [sic] ’92,” Crimson editor Emily Dial wrote on behalf of the editorial board.
“Given the Supreme Court’s conservative posse, race-conscious admissions policies were living on borrowed time,” Dial continued. “In many regards, the decision was inevitable — almost preordained.”
In response, Harvard should “radically reimagine” its means of “cultivating diversity.”
To start, the editorial suggests admissions should end legacy admits and weigh socioeconomic status more heavily.
However, “considering socioeconomic status instead of race won’t achieve the same racially diverse outcomes that affirmative action once helped promote because racial disparities exist beyond class,” Dial wrote.
The decision is “depressing”; “six Supreme Court justices metaphorically ziptied Harvard’s hands behind its back, tightly curtailing its capacity to provide the enriching experience of a College education to those who might benefit from it most.”
In response, Harvard must create a new template for admissions in higher education “to help diversity in higher education outlive its Supreme Court-issued death-knell,” Dial concluded.
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Comments
How many non-Whites on the Crimson staph?
Did they have any commentary on the law behind the decision or are they even aware that there is such a thing?
So Harvard swapped quotas on Jewish students for quotas on Asian students. What progress.
When I was at Harvard (early 1970s), it was common knowledge that they wanted to keep the proportion of Jewish students at or below 40%. I suspect the recent quota for Asian students was probably lower than 40%.
Does Harvard offer admission exclusively to the supremely uninsightful?
Or are they groomed to be that way
Cope and seethe, Cornelius.
Or Jamaal, whatever.
From what I have read, a majority of every race supports the decision. In other words it’s only controversial to a small number of lefties.
The New Klan.
So, Harvard grows the best drama-queens? Really, Chrimson, show us some of that famous Harvard strategic thinking. I can get people wailing and gnashing teeth at any community college.
Do better.