In a landmark court ruling released today, the U.S. Supreme Court effectively ended the use of affirmative action in college admissions. {237-page ruling here}
By a vote of 6-3 (UNC) and 6-2 (Harvard) the court ruled the admissions programs used by the University of North Carolina and Harvard College violate the Constitution’s equal protection clause barring racial discrimination by government entities.
Chief Justice John Roberts writing the opinion of the majority said that for too long universities have “concluded, wrongly, that the touchstone of an individual’s identity is not challenges bested, skills built, or lessons learned but the color of their skin. Our constitutional history does not tolerate that choice.”
Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, a woman of notoriously activist disposition defined by her self-image and race, sat out the Harvard case because she had been a member of an advisory governing board who constructed the rules the Supreme Court now determined were unlawful.
Amy Howe – […] Writing for the majority, Chief Justice John Roberts explained that college admissions programs can consider race merely to allow an applicant to explain how their race influenced their character in a way that would have a concrete effect on the university. But a student “must be treated based on his or her experiences as an individual — not on the basis of race,” Roberts wrote. The majority effectively, though not explicitly, overruled its 2003 decision in Grutter v. Bollinger, in which the court upheld the University of Michigan Law School’s consideration of race “as one factor among many, in an effort to assemble a student body that is diverse in ways broader than race.”
Justice Sonia Sotomayor dissented, in an opinion that was joined by Justices Elena Kagan and Ketanji Brown Jackson. Sotomayor emphasized that the majority’s decision had rolled “back decades of precedent and momentous progress” and “cement[ed] a superficial rule of colorblindness as a constitutional principle in an endemically segregated society.”
Thursday’s ruling was the latest in a series of challenges to the role of race in university admissions. In both the North Carolina and Harvard cases, the plaintiffs had asked the justices to overrule Grutter. In her opinion for the majority in that case, Justice Sandra Day O’Connor reaffirmed that “student body diversity is a compelling state interest that can justify the use of race in university admissions,” but she warned that race-conscious admissions policies should not last forever. In 25 years, she suggested, “the use of racial preferences will no longer be necessary to further the interest” in diversity. (read more)
Associated Press – “Former President Donald Trump, the current GOP presidential frontrunner, wrote on his social media network that the decision marked “a great day for America. People with extraordinary ability and everything else necessary for success, including future greatness for our Country, are finally being rewarded.”
Former President Barack Obama said in a statement that affirmative action “allowed generations of students like Michelle and me to prove we belonged. Now it’s up to all of us to give young people the opportunities they deserve — and help students everywhere benefit from new perspectives.” (more)
In the bigger picture, the need for control is a reaction to fear.
Think in terms or politics and society – the fear behind the leftist worldview is the fear that someone might withhold things (opportunities, money, whatever) from me. Fear that if you live your life in a way I dislike, it might affect my life. Fear that if you get that job, there will be nothing left for me.
A fear that if you make tons of money, it’s means there’s less money out there for me. So, people who believe in leftist ideologies seek control, manipulation and rules as a means of trying to create guarantees and safeguards against those circumstances they fear.
Conservatives believe in equal opportunity. Leftists believe in equal outcomes.
Modern “liberals”, ie leftists, try to control the world and people to enable their comfort and happiness. Which, as we know, is an endless quest. Trying to control others does nothing in the way of making oneself happy. By extension, voting in this mindset so that government can try to control others will also – shocking – not lead to a happier, more comfortable life.
The conservative (and moderate, independent, but for the sake of expediency, the conservative), on the other hand, relies on himself to meet his own needs. And the tradeoff of being free to live his life as he wishes is also understanding that he has to make peace with how you live yours. By extension, aware that he wants to be able to hold onto this liberty and freedom forever, the conservative votes accordingly, so that everyone can remain free and in charge of his or her own life.
But here’s the crucial difference, perhaps, particularly where misery on the left stems: The conservative does not worry, so to speak, about you.
The conservative person knows that you were born with the same access to self-love, self-empowerment, self-determination and self-reliance that we all were, no matter the circumstances into which you were born. (Think about the millions of people this country has allowed to crawl up from poverty into prosperity – the conservative KNOWS this is possible.) And the conservative believes that if you want prosperity, or a good job, or a good education, you can make it happen – but you have to work hard.
The conservative hopes and intends the free markets bring you all of the affordable and positive opportunities and resources that you need. The conservative also knows that on the other side of that hard work is great reward – material and, more importantly, emotional, spiritual and mental.
The conservative understands that not only is it a waste of time to try to control you, but it’s also actually impossible.
Humans were born to be free. And if we put a roadblock in front of you, you’ll find another way around it. So, we see attempts at control as a waste of resources, energy and time at best, and at worst, creating detrimental results that serve to hinder people’s upward mobility or teach dependence. We see much more efficiency, as well as endless opportunity, in leaving you to your own devices. And we want the same in return.
This is where modern democrats’ mis-view conservatives as heartless. But really, the conservative believes that there is one and one path only to sustainable success and independence – and that is self-empowerment. All other avenues – welfare, affirmative action, housing loans you can’t actually afford – ultimately risk doing a disservice to people as they teach dependence on special circumstances, the govt, or arbitrary assistance (that can disappear tomorrow). And the real danger – they will ALWAYS backfire and leave the recipient in equally or more dire circumstances. Any false improvement will always expire.
The conservative believes in abundance. The liberal believes in scarcity.
The conservative believes man is born free and will be who he is, no matter what arbitrary limitations or rules are put on him. The leftist believes man is perfectible, and by extension, believes a society at large is perfectible, and command and control is justified in the quest to a “perfect” utopian society. (Sounds familiar!)
The conservative tends to be more faithful – and not necessarily in God, but in the ability of the individual to find great strength in himself (or from his God) to get what he needs and to be successful. Therefore, the conservative has an outlet for his fear and disappointment – trust and faith in something bigger.
The leftist believes the system must be perfected in order to enable success. Therefore, disappointment is channeled as anger and blame at the system. Voids are left to be filled by faith in the govt, which they surely then want to come in and “fix” things.
And therein lies the roots of love and fear respectively. For the conservative, when life presents great struggles, he knows he has the power to surmount them. Happiness stems from internal strength and perseverance. For the modern leftist, when life presents great struggles, the system failed, therefore they were at the mercy of a faulty system, and they believe that only when the system is fixed can their life improve. Happiness is built on systemic contingencies, which they will then seek to control or expect someone else to.
One blames himself. The other blames anyone and everyone but himself.
And there it is….. There’s where the meanness comes from. The leftist ideology causes that person to cast anger at the world when things go wrong or appear “unfair.” He constantly chooses only to see the “injustices” – and that makes for a very miserable, mean, blame-casting existence.
I just wish the Asian students would realize that their parents escaped from China and Nam because of Mao and the Commies. … and are basically in lockstep with commies on campus idolizing marx and Mao.
Been around the mountain a number of times. You can always spot those who are where they are at because of affirmative action.
Next I bet you those lefty universities will want face to face interviews?
And btw how much does it cost to send a kid to college and university today? $50k for tuition alone and then theres boarding/residence
I wish some families would wise up. 3 Australian Universities were recently in the top 20 and a friend of mine who lectures at Sydney Uni tells me they have foreign students (medical and dental) who cannot get into uni in the USA or Canada who pay $60K AUD a year for tuition. There are those who come from China or Malaysia. Then they rent an apartment /house or board which costs 2-3k month –if they share its cheaper.
Many get permanent viasa after they qualify–esp doctors in the rural areas . Theres a shortage of doctors in Australia–we are recruiting from the UK when the NHS is crippled and doctors work more than 80 hours a week for bupkis.
Now do the math. 1 USD$ = 1.51$ USA
BTW the applicant needs to do well in the GAMSAT exam.
You get more value for your buck here as they say which is very very sad for aspiring Americans
One also has to have an interview by a panel of doctors/dentists. Not sure about other degrees eg IT
Harvard has been getting kicked hard of late in her jacksy a lot this year; the B-school professor who is a big scholar about dishonesty just was alleged to have plagiarized research, they had to change the flag of Kirkland House because some non-Harvard person pointed out to a student home on break that the flag sticker on his computer looked like a “confederate flag”, they are banishing the names of other uppergraduate houses of prior school presidents (Increase Mather (Cotton’s dad), Abbott Lawrence Lowell, et al for owning slaves or discriminating against them, or the Law School heraldic crest of the first benefactor from the Royall Family celebrating a slave owning family, a student wants all the commissioned portraits in the Memorial Hall dining hall to reflect current demographics (Mem Hall was built in 1870 by private alumni funds to commemerate the hundreds of alumni and students who were killed freeing the slaves for the North; the families of the honored KIA alumni paid for the portraits. Penny Pritzker is the head of the Harvard Corporation that oversees Harvard’s future path toward trannies and queer/ obese theory. A student editorialist cast aspersions at Memorial Church (built to commemorate WWI (and later WWII) dead) by saying it projected a militant nationalistic white Christianity; e.g .the lecture is in the shape of an eagle! (which is common iconography going back a millennia based on the animal symbols of the 4 Evangelists (in this St. John). Ha ha Harvard SuCKS!!
Harvard was a great place before the communists were able to take over.
Name me a college or university that isn’t in the same boat!! Global Marxists are in charge of 99% of all colleges/universities in the US and in most of the world. Hence, they have become centers of indoctrination more than institutions of higher education. The only “higher education” that goes on at these once glorious institutions is from the drugs in their bodies and their obsession with being some kind of animal or some different sexual orientation or some wacky life
Indeed. My father was valedictorian at Harvard Law… In 1941. Great school then.
Trash now.
Read Katherine Austin Fitt’s “Aristocracy and Stock Profits: Dillon Reade”/
A how to manual about the early start of our ongoing decline. Damn near everyone
listed as “the bad guys” has a Harvard diploma on their bio.
And then your Supreme Court (God bless them) delivered the old one two by recognising an employee can refuse to work on the Sabbath.
The Real President did get many appointments right.
quite a few nattering naysayers of negativity on this one today.
Re: Supreme Court ruling supporting employees refusal to work on the Sabbath..
Nobody enjoys working on weekends, so now employers in mass transit, hospitals, first responders and others will have legal problems staffing unpopular shifts.
Also, Moslems require frequent *daily* prayer breaks, and this court ruling opens up another can of worms.
It’s hard enough getting people to show up for work as it is. Why can’t employees simply take jobs that don’t conflict with their religious observances, instead of forcing the rest of the world to revolve around their personal lives?
Edit: Sorry, I meant to reply to @ Patrick Healy
When my babies were small and health insurance premiums tripled due to AIDS, I took a weekend job to supplement our meager income and to make sure I had insurance coverage when beloved Baby#3 was born.
That weekend job saved our tails in many ways. Aside from income, husband and brother-in-law realized that looking after the kids is actual work and not just “playing” like with dolls.
Many employers do their utmost to drive off employees with unreasonable policies. I recall a receptionist with a disabled child who was reproached for all the days she had to leave work a half day early to take kiddo to medical appointments, and supervisor had to cover her phones, to manager’s great distress, even though the manager was paid at least twice the receptionist’s wages and they had all known and agreed to the deal when she was hired.
Employees are people just as much as their managers. It isn’t just people who “don’t want to work”; there are workplaces that are absurd in their caste systems
People who care for elderly and infirm family members can take a FMLA absence. This is already a legally protected absence given to caregivers.
I stand by my comment.
Employees need to show up for work as per schedule when they’re needed, not just whenever they feel like coming.
Wonder if that student editorialist ever thought about the fact that those WWII dead helped save their beloved communists (Soviets) from defeat? Amazing how totally lacking in critical thinking let alone common decency they have.
Decision will mean nothing. Schools will find a way around it.
And then they can be sued.
In three to four years, maybe.
Enjoy the wins when they happen; tomorrow will take care of itself.
Yes they will keep doing what they have been doing . There’s no justice system anymore, just a pretend one. Nobody will stop them.
Perhaps but, unconstitutional nonetheless
Other Harvard Jerks: Anthony Blinken ’84, Cass Susstein ’74, Christopher Wallace (son of Mike) ’70, Merritt Garland ’73, Obama Law school 92, Al Gore ’69, Zuckerberg ’06, Jeff Zucker ’86, John Reed (buried in Kremlin) ’11, Pete Seeger ’33, Fred Grandy ’73 (The Love Boat…..wait..he was ok),
Another great example is my former Congressman, Barney Frank ’62, and Harvard Law ’77. Then there was Harvard Law grad Alger Hiss ’29.
Those are a lot of “globalists”. Yeah, that’s what they have in common. Never thought I would see a bone tossed to White folks ever again from this government.
“And the conservative believes that if you want prosperity, or a good job, or a good education, you can make it happen – but you have to work hard.”
This is true but whenever it is said, what remains unsaid is that different people have different ceilings due to external circumstances. A person can work very hard and do all the right things to advance themselves and yet still do less well than a second person in a similar starting position. That these differences in ceilings exist is not in itself a bad thing.
“All other avenues – welfare, affirmative action, housing loans you can’t actually afford – ultimately risk doing a disservice to people as they teach dependence on special circumstances, the govt, or arbitrary assistance (that can disappear tomorrow).”
This is true in the context of a government governing in good faith for the benefit of its people. In the context of a bad-faith government structure (which includes donors and other actors), it can be a means of control. It’s not the *funding* itself that gives funders power, it’s the *very large* funding (that makes the funder the principal funder) — that puts the funder in the position that *withdrawing* the funding hurts the fundee — that gives the funder the power.
Have you ever blistered your hands doing manual labor?
It’s painful. And it’s the pain that drives you to learn and work smarter.
The kind of drive that keeps you focused on the pain until one day you realize calluses have replaced the pain. And you realize too the skills and experience positioned you to start your own business.
What am I saying? Make your way instead of trying to convince others you have the goods.
“It’s painful. And it’s the pain that drives you to learn and work smarter” -Great comment. For most people, truer words have not been spoken.
Here’s Erica Marsh’s bio:
….” Proud Democrat: Former Field Organizer to elect President Biden. Volunteer for the Obama Foundation. (She/Her) “…..
So basically that lady is saying that people of the race currently called black are too stupid to make it on their own merits? That’s kind of racist, isn’t it?
Masks slipping each and every day. That’s got to be a good thing. Right?
Maybe racist to say it, but it’s repeatedly borne out. I have always thought that private colleges ought to be able to assemble any racial society they choose. It doesn’t matter to humanity ifHarvard’s freshman class is 100% Asian or 100% black, but for some reason Harvard tries to build a “diverse” student body instead of an excellent one. However, because Harvard tries to mix and match the races according to some notion of social justice or equity, applicants should be apprised of the historical qualifications of the ethnicities that have been admitted. Very well qualified applicants might begin to distrust that Harvard, for example, has a very strong student body or is all that great a university when they see the qualifications of the blacks Harvard has admitted.
Blacks that earned their position thru hard work will know the great feeling of success. Those that were given a position will never know that feeling.
They will know it but it won’t be real. They’ll have made up and exaggerated accomplishments like “First black from East Flatbush to take a commercial flight to Nome, Alaska.@ etc.
Now that you mentioned “feelings,” did you know that the latest WEF initiative picked up by our public schools forces students to examine their “feelings?”
Imagine a bunch of communists instructing our children how they are supposed to *feel?* About everything?
The anti-bully campaigns loosed a generation of safe space-seeking, militant nerds. This ‘muh feewings’ curriculum can’t be good. It can’t be good at all.
Those given the position are nose in the air grifters who feel they’re owed because of slavery. Look at the mayor of NYC still bringing it up. They are the most brainwashed, stupid people on the planet.
A rational society would have none of it and tell them to shut up unless they have something constructive to offer.
Perfect response, Candace. Perfect.
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I agree with everything Sundance says in his article. Now let’s go hang some monopolists
“…endemically segregated society.”
Sounds like the minority’s code phrase for “white privilege”?
I wonder if during their debate Justice Thomas poked some fun at his fellow justices with that famous line from Blazing Saddles, “Where da white women at?”
Liberals are brain bullies. The bullied that became the bullies.
Ask any “progressive” bully about their childhood and they will tell you, without exception, that they were bullied when younger and how hurtful it was.
But as they get older, do well in school and jobs, they get the message they are smarter and better than others. So now they ENJOY looking down on those whom society collectively deems as their inferiors.
That’s really it in a nutshell. They are the self-annointed betters, entitled to hate because the cheerleaders were mean to them.
The bullied who became entitled, smug, self-righteous bullies.
Despite endless discussions and political jockeying for position and so on, the bulk of human behavior really does come down to how a person’s childhood went. It can’t be overstated how crucial the developmental years are to making people what they are later in life, and for the rest of their lives.
This is why the parasites are so eager to influence children with gay porn, racism, and religious zealotry. Corrupting all that potential is how the belial trash “reproduces” itself.
Thomas blasts Jackson’s dissent in affirmative action decision: ‘Cancerous to young minds’
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/courts/thomas-blasts-kbjs-dissent-affirmative-action-decision
The Supreme Court is a bit too late; the damage has already been done, and been done for a long time. The Black Community will have their panties in a wad, now that they will have to WORK to enter higher education like everyone else, instead of it being given to them over more qualified students. It is way past time this abomination was done away with.
Who said anything about “work?” The curriculum for ALL students has already been dumbed-down substantially. It’s a race to the bottom!
In the push for STEM several years ago, college entrance exams completely de-emphasized their literacy criteria. Students could write essays if they liked, but they were no longer prioritized.
My kids saw students in their STEM classes who didn’t speak a word of English. In fact, there were entire dorm floors filled with foreign-speaking students, mostly Asians.
I have no idea how they all became engineers and architects, as the curriculum is quite challenging, even for those who DO understand the professor!
Isn’t it interesting that it took barely a year of the Supreme Court working with a B#%@K, Female,Affirmative Action hire to totally cancel that S@#T…………I’m just saying.🤔🤔🤔🤷♂️
Why are the service academies exempt? Seems IF any vocation in the nation should be based solely upon merit, it would the profession of arms??
Academy Awards; listen up.
I still cannot believe that it is so important to “these people” to degrade the good work, intelligence, great grades, and overall genetic superiority in an effort to push their agenda while destroying opportunities for others.
How else can they convert the USA into a “service economy?” Obviously, we can’t have smart people.
In fact, the globalists no longer want us to be human beings! Via gene edits and graphene oxide brain updates, they are creating transhuman slaves!
Sundance, this, I believe, is one of your best commentaries. I thoroughly enjoyed your comparisons and the way you drew conclusions.
And yet, still no curiosity about why they refused to strike down blatant election fraud in 2020. The utter stench of that has yet to be removed..
They should have taken the lawsuit filed by Texas and joined by other states. No one knows the opinion that would have been issued but they really didn’t have an option not to, but once again, found one.
Well put!
Let me add this suggestion: ultimately, that fear is a fear of individual responsibility, which is the defining feature of modernity (understood as the era of human development that started in Greece 2500 years ago).
So the hatred is always, ultimately, a hatred of modernity, and a longing for the dissolution of the individual into the pre-modern tribe.
Cheers 🙂
America First Legal
@America1stLegal
Hey @POTUS
and all university admissions offices—go ahead and try to come up with whatever proxy schemes you want to illegally discriminate against Americans based on race. We’ll be ready.
Cont…
Gotta love James Woods!!
Elizabeth Warren, Katanji Jackson Brown, Kamala Harris, Michele Obama. We don’t know about Barrak as no records.
If you were disadvantaged by affirmative action can you file for redress?
While banning racial quotas in the universities, SCOTUS allowed this race to the bottom to continue in US military academies. So let’s not applaud this half hearted ruling just yet. Leaving the academies untouched permits the left to get another bite of this very rotten apple.
The Democrat Party wants to Divide and Conquer America.
Democrats want to pit everyone against each other.
The purpose of Woke Critical Race Theory (CRT) is to divide America.
Oh, no! Does that mean people actually have to apply themselves and earn their achievements?
People are now going to be forced to actually do something … like …like …like (gasp) WORK!
And day before, blocked NC’s district maps & took jurisdiction AWAY from state legislators.
So, this is a ‘thimble’ of a win, victory & we are supposed to be euphoric??
Dems WINNING BIG battles, VOTING, VOTERS, ELECTIONS.
Who cares about AA?
2024 will be one big joke election.
“Knick-knack paddy-whack Give a dog a bone… “
Cool, take the victory.
But, they also recently ruled that states still have “no standing” in regards to elections and by extension leaving the fraud and the frauds in place. Watch the other hand.
Ultra-MAGA!
Beautiful and brilliant commentary on our differences. Thank you, Sundance. Merit! As spelled out last year in an article in the WSJ, most people believe merit trumps above all us including racialist and diversity politics. Based on that information, I have no doubt that many liberals silently agree.
Spot on Sundance, bravo! I would add to your list that conservatives want to keep what is theirs earned from their hard work and lifetimes of doing that work. The leftist want to take what is earned by someone to another who wants to legally take what is not theirs. Thus, God’s basic laws come into play where one can defend from another their hard earn belongings.
So glad to see that Jackson and Sharpton were included in the Anger Games meme. A lot of the current Big Business debacle today is because those two gamed many large corporations with threats of racism smears and demanded monetary payments in order to “stop” the smears. The big corps should have realized that by giving these two their cash cow, they were setting themselves up for regular payments to extortionists in perpetuity. It is simply a matter of which “cause du jour” these charletons are throwing at the corps. If they were dumb enough to bow to extortion THEY (the execs making those decisions) should have paid the extortion from their bloated salaries and excessive benefits packages. Instead, the extortion costs were passed on to innocent customers (including some that the extortionists CLAIMED to be “helping”). This extortion has gone on for fifty years now. Every January, they invoke the name of Dr. King and once the holiday has come to a close, they conveniently forget his message. Sure there are new grifters coming on scene, many of whom are lawyers looking to gain national exposure seeking “justice” for their clients even while knowing that their clients were guilty of criminal activities. No wonder our justice system is so corrupt. This fish smells from the head and from the so-called “civil rights” attorneys (BTW, that’s code for I will represent you before the country and then take everything you ever had or hope to have in exchange for the tv time to cry, nay scream, about the in”jest’ice to you!
Never hardly hear about Jackson and Sharpton, which is a good thing.
When I did, would always ask whoever was talking favorably about them one question:
“Who do you know, or have heard about that Jessie or Al has ever benefitted in any
way, shape, or form?”
The racist party is extremely upset over this..
they despise being told to wear a leash
What’s strange is billions have been poured recently into historically black colleges and nary a word about the racism or inequity of it.
Poor Judge Jackson…she believes the cure for the ills of Tribalism…is more Tribalism.
Guess who does not apply affirmative action at Ivy League Schools…the student body when it come to forming study groups, organically. Students who were admitted based on merit ignore those students they view as tokens who received special admissions treatment. So guess who blames the institution for being bigoted/racist when they get the cold shoulder from their peers?
Some information from Grutter v. Bollinger’s history:
https://president.cornell.edu/the-presidency/jeffrey-s-lehman/
…”In his inaugural address, Lehman characterized Cornell as a blend of beloved and revolutionary elements. During his tenure, Lehman worked on renewing those elements through his Call to Engagement initiative. As a result of that initiative, he urged the campus to marshal its resources in response to three global challenges: life in the age of the genome, wisdom in the age of digital information, and sustainability in the age of global development.
With his commitment to Cornell’s development as a transnational university, Lehman expanded Cornell’s academic and research affiliations in China, the Middle East, and South Asia. He also strengthened links between the Ithaca campus and the Weill Cornell Medical College in New York City. He resigned as Cornell’s president in June 2005.”…
…”Lehman’s research examined the economic and social justice issues posed by tax laws and social welfare policies, and he has studied antipoverty policy, federal income tax policy and higher education finance. At Michigan, he drew national media attention as a spokesperson in defense of the University of Michigan Law School’s moderate approach to affirmative action in admissions. The Supreme Court’s opinion affirming that policy, in Grutter v. Bollinger, is considered to be one of the most important decisions in the history of higher education. The NAACP Legal Defense Fund honored Lehman for his role in the case on November 6, 2003.”…
https://newsen.pku.edu.cn/news_events/news/focus/697.html
Note the dates:
June 3, 2005
Blue Ribbon advisory team to reshape life sciences includes Harold Varmus, Robert Lander, and others:
https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2005/06/blue-ribbon-advisory-team-helps-cornell-restructure-life-sciences
June 11, 2005
President noted above (regarding Grutter v. Bollinger, 1000 Talents) steps down unexpectedly after short tenure at Cornell during Life Sciences Initiative
https://cornellsun.com/2005/06/18/speculation-still-surrounds-presidents-resignation/
Affirmative action was taken yesterday
Finally, RACISM is being eliminated. The democrat race BAITING is being reduced somewhat.
Only a true communist could have absurdly proclaimed that reverse discrimination was affirmative action, while simultaneously denying that a racial quota was the real discrimination.
Pure Soviet logic.
As I understand it, the Universities believe they have a loophole and intend to ignore the decision.
This is true. I teach at several colleges and every single one has written something similar:
“Yesterday, the Supreme Court of the United States reversed five decades of well-established precedent recognizing public and private universities’ right to intentionally expand access for students from diverse cultural, ethnic, and racial communities. While unsurprising, this decision is disheartening. The court’s decision ignores the history and ongoing realities of racism in our country and higher education systems and abdicates our responsibility to pursue justice…
…Fortunately, this decision does not impact how the Community College District and our colleges …. operate and serve our students. We see and value the potential of every member of our community to succeed in their educational pathway and welcome them into our colleges. We celebrate our mission to provide open access to our diverse communities. We invite and welcome those who have and continue to experience racism and discrimination in education and offer understanding, belonging, and success.
Today, the importance of our colleges and the work we do has been elevated. We must think, plan, and act to support our students beyond their time at our colleges. We are uniquely positioned to help students from diverse communities break through barriers to their educational advancement as they move on to colleges and universities. We embrace this opportunity as our responsibility. We embrace the lived experiences of our students as intrinsic to their value, power, and success. We embrace the diversity of our students, faculty, classified professionals, supervisors, managers, and community members as the primary source of our institutional strength and excellence.”
“Lived experience” is the way affirmative action will be described now. Students will be given credit for their “lived experience” as black, chicano, etc.
I have been defending RFK Jr here but I must say that I disagree with his response to this. It’s not a deal-breaker for me but it’s a caution flag. I’d like to hear him speak more in depth about it. Vivek Ramaswamy, with whom I am also very impressed, was very strong in his response.
Hopefully, the lawsuits over affirmative action will finally put this aberration to bed. I know the ruling has no teeth and only the losing of lawsuits will slow this diversity stupidity in our supposed institutions of higher learning.
Until the Supreme Court puts on its big boy and girl pants and does something about corrupt elections, instead of enshrining them, I will continue to believe their “positive” social decisions are intended to stir sh*t and get the left engaged and activated to perpetuate the division.
“Justice Sonia Sotomayor dissented, in an opinion that was joined by Justices Elena Kagan and Ketanji Brown Jackson. Sotomayor emphasized that the majority’s decision had rolled “back decades of precedent and momentous progress” and “cement[ed] a superficial rule of colorblindness as a constitutional principle in an endemically segregated society.”
“Precedent” doesn’t matter if it was set by a faulty reading of the law (Constitution) and is not law unto itself.
“superficial rule of colorblindness” using color (racism) to establish colorblindness is another great example of the complete lack of reasoning not to mention just plain old common sense.
Looks like the “wise Latina” isn’t so wise after all, doesn’t it?
But the military academies like West Point, etc. remain exempt from this ruling…
I have always thought that the left focuses on the environment around them and not themselves.
This is an excellent article that articulates the left vs the right.
Thank you Sundance!!!
Even better:
Asian Americans Celebrate Affirmative Action Ruling With 5-Minute Study Break
https://babylonbee.com/news/asian-americans-celebrate-supreme-court-ruling-with-5-minute-study-break
I’ve taught college for years and found both JeanneDark’s Bee headline and the one above hilarious.