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.
The only thing disappointing in this case is that this wasn’t 9-0 and 8-0 (as opposed to 6-3 and 6-2) decision/s. I don’t know what ‘loop holes’ or ‘interpretations’ that Harvard and similar minded admissions officers at these Universities may come up with now to continue to discriminate. If they continue discrimination in admissions, etc., moving forward, could there now be serious (criminal?) lawsuits against the Universities and can go after their endowments? I hope they simply stop discriminating based on skin color or any such trait, we have no control on what skin color we are born with. A merit based society would be most moral, ethical and make the most economic and all forms of progress. We should celebrate this day. Thank you.
“Send a photo with your application.”
They do that (attach a photo) for medical college application already (though some of the apps have this requirement as ‘voluntary’). Thank you.
The Wise Latina wasn’t so…wise.
Ketanji, who Clarence Thomas retorted to directly, was much more idiotic. Justice Thomas smoked her.
He is like an iceberg. Much more under the surface. He is a gem.
She’s not too bright. She doesn’t know what a woman is…and she is one.
all of the lesbo triad are mental midgets compared to the likes of thomas and alito
Just saw a report today that women have “bonus holes”. So now we should be able to get an answer to “what is a woman?”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/06/not-onion-cervical-cancer-fund-suggests-calling-vaginas/
It’s almost as if she earned her seat on the court through “affirmative action”………
And she’s married to a white guy!
Well, sort of…
for those of us that know, she never was
The Wise Latina isn’t just a Latina!
They will simply DO IT ANYWAY. When SCOTUS had struck down unconstitutional gun laws, the states just wrote another one just as unconstitutional as the previous law. It is wilful to the point that SCOTUS should issue an order that these states gain SCOTUS approval before creating new gun laws. This would be completely within precedent and practice as many US Southern states were bared from creating voter laws which might discriminate against minorities without approval. It took a very long time before those states ordered so could once again have such power.
In any case, we know they will keep doing it. We just need SCOTUS to restrict those who thumb their noses at them.
The House can defund Gubmint money for these so-called institutions who run off the rails, no?
It will take a blizzard of lawsuits from those wrongfully denied admission to the university or school within a university to make this stick. Thus, as is almost always the case with SCOTUS rulings, this one provides very green pastures for the lawyers and courts.
Also I wonder now how this will affect the admissions based on nepotism admissions?
You mean “legacy” admissions?
I was class fund agent for my 1960’s era class at one of the Seven Sisters women’s colleges. (It went co-ed in the 1970s.) The so-called legacy “admits” back in the day were not necessarily the brightest bulbs in the class, but they were school-spirited enough to be generous to their alma mater when called upon, as had their female forebears who were loyal alums. The toughest nuts to crack for alumnae giving were those who had received full-boat rides aka 4 yr college scholarships as a result of their high school academic achievements, never to be heard from again after graduation from the college. There’s a word for this kind of ingratitude: USERS! They would report from time to time in the class notes of their success in whatever field they had chosen to continue their education, but rarely if ever, sharing a nickel with their alma mater. So please don’t sneer when you say “legacy”! And guess which “group” is the cheapest of all? Trustees of academic institutions, from independent day schools to the Ivy League, know this but can never admit it, so they aim to limit the financial damage by promulgating A-A policies.
Yes, racists will always use skin color to discriminate, the university admissions dept. being a prime example. My question is, with this ruling, will large monetary (class action) lawsuits to the size that substantially eat into their large endowments become a reality and also a deterrent to other universities/entities. Thank you.
Well some of the justices do not know what is a woman so surprised I’m not.
Now comes the outright ignoring of law or an endless round of slightly different appeals.
I wonder if anyone’s asked those, who can’t define what a woman is, if they know what a law is.
Universities will just base admission on zip codes
they won’t conform, not in any way, shape or fashion. I can guarantee you right now there are loons formulating new rules to get around this. this is a plank in their ideology like abortion.
Some University President/s recently volunteered to ‘kill off’ all of their DEI departments.
One example: University of Arkansas prepares to dissolve DEI division, reallocate staff – Arkansas Times (arktimes.com)
Bravo.
What I rather suspect is this: universities will start abandoning objective academic criteria in favor of vague, woo-woo approaches to admissions that make it harder to strictly prove what they’re really up to, and the injustices will continue . They do not care if the Supreme Court says NO!
Yes, and it’s too little, too late anyway.
Already happened.
I applaud this decision – it was a long time coming! What I fear is that the admission requirements will be lowered to the point of irrelevancy. Some colleges are already ditching the SATs and ACTs. Never underestimate the left’s ability to twist something to fit their twisted ideology!
yea….you do know why
Most unfortunately, yes, we all know why. I found the classes on Moral Sciences in elementary schools (I didn’t go to a ‘religious school’-it was a public school) were the best, albeit, I was more into PCM (Physics, Chemistry and Mathematics) and ultimately became engineer with Bachelor’s, Master’s and Doctorate degrees in Engineering. I still taught my son those moral science courses via such wonderful stories even though the schools don’t teach them anymore, and I still joyfully teach these to all the younglings in our neighborhood and in our friend’s circles whomever are willing to listen. Son just graduated with a perfect GPA in undergrad in Engineering at a premier STEM world renowned university and now beginning doctoral program at another very top engineering University; despite being born with a ‘wrong/un-preferred skin color’ like me.
I hope plenty of lawsuits will be filed against years of diversity “hiring” too.
Rulings like this are a go forward impact. You can not retroactively sue since the law was on their side previously.
Being said there are so many leftist in higher education that are right now, as I type, working on ways to circumvent this. There WILL be massive lawsuits in the near future as these nuts try and impose their racist views.
Totally agree with you. Since it’s not possible to retroactively sue, the subject of reparations for slavery should vanish into the Ethernet. It was legal until the 13th constitutional amendment was passed by the Republican House and signed into law by a Republican president. No American alive has ever been a slave nor owned one.
People shouldn’t be attending these institutions of higher deception and propaganda anyway.
It leaves me dumbfounded,why do we let and pay for the enemy to educate our kids?
It’s changing. But they have been running on momentum before the public eventually caught on. I remember 2-3 years ago telling a co-worker what the colleges and universities were doing to students. He denied what I asserted based on the fact that he attended a university not so long ago and did not experience this. Within 4-6 weeks of that discussion, he came to realize I was correct. That said, it takes even longer for the rest of the people.
It will only take a “pandemic” of transgender mutilations of students coming home for summer before everyone else wakes up.
This is the COST to parents who are NOT paying attention.
lol, I went through that with my son and his wife, regarding the higher education of my grandchildren when they came to me and ask for money. I told him go back and do your homework and get back in touch with me and by the way, my son is a graduate of the University of Florida and his wife is a graduate of Florida State. they spent nine months doing their homework, and when I finally spoke to them about what the outcome was, their conclusion was that if they sent their children to these state-funded public universities and colleges, they wouldn’t recognize them in 18 months. I got my checkbook out as they went to the front of the line. critical thinking skills at this point are mandatory.
Certain colleges and universities will continue to reject White Christian students.
Better. What would they be learning anyway?
Retired Magistrate here: It’s about time. An individual should be admitted to college based on merits, not on the color of skin.
Opportunities are out there; it is up to each individual to use their GOD given skills and pursue their goals. Does it take hard work; of course. Anything worthwhile takes hard work. The problem with affirmative action always has been that it takes away from the accomplishments of those who have worked really hard to get where they are and rewards others based on the color of their skin.
To work hard and accomplish your goals gives a sense of accomplishment; to accomplish goals based on anything other than hard work only leads to that person expecting more and more entitlements based on entitlements they got in the first place.
This is a long overdue decision of the United States Supreme Court.
As Solomon tells us in Ecclesiastes, it’s all vanity…
Retarded Magician here: Yes… I’m looking for the institutions to ignore this and SCOTUS issuing orders to offenders taking measures to stop it. I’m reminded of SCOTUS ordering various states where voter law and practice was determined to be discriminatory against minorities. Those states had to suffer a LONG time under court ordered limitations in that regard. We need more of that.
BLM and antifa parrot academia “merit is fascism”, with BigMedia, Academia Lawfare, DoJ etc as sponsors. It is still a long road ahead.
“Happiness is the personal result of a job well done,… not Entitlement!” – my father.
All of us (actually, all mammals) are born with (God-given) spotless conscience. Anytime, we invoke it and achieve successes, material or otherwise, our deepest of insides know if this was achieved with behaving with spotless conduct (that our God-given spotless conscience guides us with), embracing the struggles and hard work necessary to achieve the said successes, we feel blissfully happy-the true pursuit of happiness is this. Thank you.
Ur Welcome,… Dad was a wise, pragmatic and highly principled WWII US Naval Officer,…. just after he graduated from both Harvard and Tulane.
He raised and sent nine of us to college. Thanks, Dad, RIP.
This is like throwing you a life raft after you’ve already sunk beneath the water’s surface.
Marcia
Do you see an outcome of this decision where the same standards can be forced and applied on government entities (local, state, federal) with regards to new hires, promotions, etc due to the fact they receive taxpayer money and the wording in the decision led me to believe that the decision was due to government financing and equal application of the law (14th & Civil Rights Act)?
Retired Magistrate here: Yes; however, someone will have to file an action specifically with regard to a new hire, promotion, etc. within a government entity other than a college or university. I don’t think the lower courts will apply this particular decision to the actions that you have mentioned. I think this decision will be narrowly applied to taxpayer funded universities and colleges.
However, a caveat: I am pleasantly surprised they ruled 6-3, 6-2 this time so I don’t pretend to know what the Supreme Court will do in the future.
Thanks.
I kinda figured that an individual in the situations I described would have to file a claim.
I just couldn’t figure out if there was precedent to make the jump from taxpayer funded over to another entity without taking thru the system.
Now suits need to be filed against hospitals and medical facilities, who receive taxpayer funding through Medicare and Medicaid and grants from NIH, et al, for their discriminatory hiring policies.
A thousand thumbs up to your comment, dear respected retired Magistrate. Thank you.
This would make Martin Luther King very proud. Maybe the next MLK Day will actually mean something.
Suck it up Biden. Jerk!
“opening doors of opportunity for every single american”
but…
Just base the qualifications on
test scores. Period.
One of the things that irritates
me the most is a box for Race
when filling out forms.
I have refused for years.
I always write in….
USA mutt.
I refuse to participate in the
Race Game.
Yea, the last thing this so called president wants, is to recommend to every interested citizen that the Court’s decision is readily available on line for them to read.
Why try to educate the average American citizen, why not just come out and tell everyone how wrong the decision is and how smart you are to say it is wrong. Feelings are more important than rational thinking…yea, just like skin color is more important than character.
Dr. King is rolling over in his grave!
I’ve lost out on numerous jobs that I was more qualified for because I am a Caucasian male. Virginia Democrat Senator Jim Webb (great author btw) caused quite a stir (and a big thank you from me) when during the 2016 Democrat Primaries he stated that Affirmative Action was never meant for the people and their descendants coming from China/Pakistan/Saudi Arabia/India/Africa/Columbia etc etc to get in front of Caucasian Americans for jobs.
Jim Webb, affirmative action, and the Democratic Party’s racial amnesia
https://www.dailydot.com/unclick/jim-webb-affirmative-action-black-lives-matter/
“He told Cooper that he believe’s he’s where the Democratic Party has traditionally been on the matter, sharing his belief that affirmative action was “originally designed” for Black people “given their given their unique history with slavery and the Jim Crow that followed.” In his view, the way the program is implemented in workplaces and educational institutions today hurts poor white people, especially those from rural areas.”
They warped and expanded it to Babylonize Heritage America to destroy it and “remake” it as Obama’s puppetmasters ordered him to say. When it was first unconstitutionally implemented they said it was just for American Blacks, to be in many cases, put in positions that they were not as qualified for as other “White” applicants. The irony is this history of persecution of Blacks was done by the Democrats.
Diversity = anti white
Always has been, always will be
Minority= non-white
My professional experience as well.
Asians are also punished because their culture is similar to traditional white culture in that they believe in hard work, studying, harder work, applying oneself, and studying. In Lefty world, that is “acting white” and Asians get punished for proving that not all POC are failures.
It’s frightening how much the Democratic Party has changed since 1960….
“America is being destroyed. If you want to destroy America,
then you vote Democrat
because the Democrat Party has been unmasked.
Its policies and programs are delusional and destructive,
and they are dismantling the most fabulous nation on earth right before your eyes,” Levin .
This is what he’s talking about, the change;
The Democrat (UNIParty) Party has not changed. They just keep getting exposed.
THANK YOU….WSB. I started voting in 1964 and I can affirm the truth of your comment. They have NOT changed.
I had trouble with conversations with my peers through the ’60s and’70s….becaue they didn’t appreciate my occasional comment along the lines of “Seriously? You really believe that????” Clueless then….and then they elected obama and were SO proud.
“has been” destroyed. just as obama pledged he would do
Excellent post, thank you.
Hello Colkitto, I can assure you that in University admissions (and now in many private industries too), being a US citizen of Asian descent faces the worst skin-color discrimination. This was the key basis of the law suite. This doesn’t mean white Caucasian straight males aren’t discriminated against solely based on skin color, they very much are. Lot’s of job lost to H1 visas are purely on a monetary basis, especially by the ‘tech’ industry. Thank you.
Not.
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Not sure that this applies to hiring in the STEM fields, or foreigners’ admissions to colleges.
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One of the most useful tools a parent can give a child is a mirror. When the child asks who to blame for his or her disappointments and shortcomings, the parent can simply advise, “Start by looking into the mirror I provided you.” Even now as I look back on my own long life, I realize that almost every trial, tribulation and unfairness I encountered along the way was of my own making.
Well said! 👏👏👏
I used the kids bathroom mirror to post newspaper articles, quaint right? The mirror took up the entire wall over the dual sinks. I posted articles to ponder as as they brushed their teeth, combed their hair etc. It was always a mishmash of articles, the police blotter from local town paper was sometimes included. We would discuss what was posted at dinner that evening. We had our challenges but our kids are epic. Thanks for tweaking my memory!
Reparations?
Good one.
I see where the lying Kenyan has tweeted that affirmative action programs are how he and Michelle attended prestigious universities. Hahaha. No kidding.
I know.
And how they got into the White House.
CIA Affirmative Action. Oh, IMHO.
Their Anti-American performance there should be the Reason AA is buried forever in the USA. Mike’s raycist screed of a Prinction thesis confirms just how destructive Affirmative Action can truly be,… no matter how well intended.
No wonder the Mooch publicly said that she had never been proud of her Country.
The Feeling’s Mutual now, Mike! Sic’em again, SCOTUS!
The only qualifications Barry and Michelle ever met,….were in Fashion……………………………..Does this Dress make my dick show?🤔🤔🤔🤐
His academic records are still under lock and key. He ought to shut his blue lips and slither off quietly into the sunset.
OKI: That just proves that affirmative action is a failure.
Based on his own words, back in the day they’d have been called “token negroes.”
Definitely not a badge of honor.
Don’t like the argument that people had dreams shattered. It’s a setback. Move on. Losers provide excuses, which are always available. Find another way, just like everyone else who overcomes an obstacle.
You seem new around here. Troll much?
If young whites are taught to internalize the hatred and yes, outright discrimination that surrounds them, they will continue to mutilate and kill themselves through gender ‘treatments,’ drug overdoses and general self-loathing and low morale.
The only solution is for young whites to name their enemies. Fight fire with fire. Teach them to cultivate community that holds them responsible within the boundaries of self-preservation, not those drawn around them by evil forces trying to genocide and enslave them.
????? How does that have anything to do with what I said?
And yes, I’m a super secret troll coming here to indoctrinate people with my hidden leftist.
So systematic racism is just a “setback”? Of course, there are other ways around it BUT THE POINT IS THAT NO ONE SHOULD BE PUNISHED BECAUSE OF THE COLOR OF THEIR SKIN. We have laws against that sort of behavior.
You sound like Kristi Noem who proclaimed that if you are being FORCED to have a medical procedure (vaccine) in order to keep your job THEN just go get another job. There was no regard if you were 63 years old and 1 year away from full pension and NO ONE wants to hire a 63 year old person and maybe all of the other employers in that industry are requiring a vaccine.
According to you, discrimination is just a “setback” and we should just ignore it.
I didn’t say that. I don’t like the argument that it dashed someone’s dreams. How is that different than the argument from the other side.
Dashed their dreams? Feels like hyperbolic excuse making.
My point is that you don’t let it have any lasting impact. It sucks and needed to be fixed, but non-accepatance at Harvard isn’t a dream killer. It is a setback at worst and a benefit in my mind.
People who are cheated and treated wrongfully are not necessarily deserving of being called losers because of it.
Labeling folks in such a way will usually get noticed here.
That’s fair. I just think excuse makers tend to find them everywhere. People who get crap done don’t make excuses.
Eff a bunch of Ivy League admissions. Then telling one no is a long way from dream destruction.
By the by, I think quotas are pure trash, from all perspectives. I don’t want quality people letting them get in the way.
I should have clarified.
I hear ya.
I feel the same way.
And I feel ya…..let me just say there’s a magical-thinking excuse-maker in my life and oh honey…….it’s all I can do to restrain myself at times. lol (And I confess I often fail.)
Good note, all of these schools are now crap. This poor kid should have applied to Liberty. Wonder where he is today?
TY, SD for sharing this.
Yup, way better for highly talented and motivated young white men to leave the rigged arenas. Don’t give them the precious resource that they present. Create new untainted unrigged institutions and pathways.
That would basically be my point. Eff them. Move on with a new shoulder chip and shove it in their ear.
And how many people have had their dreams destroyed because people like Elizabeth Warren lie on their applications to milk the system.
How many of Asian extraction had their dreams destroyed?
How many of their parents tried to rig the system against whites? I’m not against all asians but to deny that they have been main contributors to anti-white discrimination seems obtuse.
What the hell are you talking about? No deception or lie in my comment and in the context of the subject of this thread Asian American students, more than any other group per segment of the population, are the ones who have suffered the worst from Affirmative Action!
And your quickness to jump out of the context of the thread to air a nonspecific grievance about discrimination by Asian Americans against white people could easily be interpreted that you are arguing that because you perceive discrimination in some other context that discrimination against Asian Americans students is justified in the use of AA?
So KMA!
My younger son (just turned 55) approached the CHP recruiting offices in his 20s, considering applying to be highway patrolman….they literally laughed in his face (in a good-natured way) with reference to his skin color….just gave him the paperwork and sort of said, “Well, good luck with that…………” they specifically let him that he was the wrong color.
Yawn!!! The Supreme Court ruled in Bruen that gun control laws were unconstitutional. Then they ruled in the Dobbs Decision that states could ban abortion and both decisions have been largely ignored by the states and federal courts. In fact, even the Supreme Court has failed to step in to support Bruen and Dobbs. Colleges will either totally ignore this decision or simply rename Affirmative Action and call it something else!
But it is a start. This way white and Asian students who have been denied admission because of racial quotas at least have legal grounds to sue the Universities that are discriminating against them. Jim Crow did not end overnight after Brown vs the Board of Education neither will reverse discrimination.
Asians have lots of numbers and work ethic, with worse discrimination cases.
Methinks the most of the upper 20% of Unis are going to catch hell.
What did SCOTUS do when certain states ignored their ruling on voter discrimination laws?
What makes you think SCOTUS will not eventually do the same? I believe they will! They just have to give them enough rope.
SCOTUS doesn’t have an enforcement arm. That’s up to the Executive Branch through its DOJ. That should explain everything.
Different results for different people! You should know that by now!
Yawn!!!….?
This is great for America.
I especially love a day that proves there’s a difference between Democrat and Republican.
I dislike Senator Mitch McConnelly with a passion.
but,
When McConnell was majority leader; he refused to grant Garland even a token hearing after he was nominated to the Supreme Court by Barack Obama in March 2016 to fill Antonin Scalia’s seat.
That was a good day.
When Attorney General Merrick B. Garland was sworn in as Attorney General of the United States on March 11, 2021.
As the nation’s chief law enforcement officer, Attorney General Garland leads the Justice Department’s 115,000 employees, who work across the United States and in more than 50 countries worldwide.
That was a bad day.
Attorney General Merrick B. Garland would have had a lifetime job with a Supreme Court ,
If the Democrats would’ve had their way.
WE could be happy or whine or take a nap .
I notice that Sundance used the word “conservative” not republican. The party has nothing to do with the beliefs and principles in Sundance’s excellent summary. The republican party as a “club” only espouses those beliefs and principles when needed for votes. Otherwise, they would stop supporting and voting for the same policies, judges and candidates that enable and expand government control.
You’re celebrating and the university lawyers already have a go-around because Roberts wrote one sentence in his decision that colleges could use essays written by the student to show how discrimination effected them. There you have it.
Why aren’t all the predictably leftist, anti-conservative, news agencies CELEBRATING a WIN against systemic, institutionalized, AAPI HATE?
Katanji Brown is the first Supreme Court inJustice installed as a direct consequence of institutionalized election fraud…..and it shows.
tic tock
66% of American Voters or Two-Thirds Believe the 2024 Presidential Election Will Be Affected by Cheating
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/06/huge-66-americans-two-thirds-believe-2024-presidential/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=huge-66-americans-two-thirds-believe-2024-presidential
This poll Matches the Rasmussen’s poll of 62% who believe 2020 was fraudulent, with another 6% undecided.
and yet mysteriously, still no congressional inquiries or investigations to at least pretend to satisfy the concerns of the majority of the people on such an important subject?
If one is illegitimate, they all are. Every Bureaucrat, every staffer, every Judge, etc. That’s why they won’t fix it. It ruins their life to fix the system.
seriously … her Opinion reads like that of a militant college sophomore socially promoted through her entire education as a “strong”, “proud”, black woman who never learned the basic rules of the white man’s English language. Shame on every Republican that voted to confirm her.
Thats what happens when Obama is allowed to deliver Joes lines from his basement in his sweats.
She doesn’t want to be hated by her party.
She checks all the boxes for a Supreme Court Justice, if you want to destroy America.
Interesting that she sat on a school board but she ignores what is taught in that school.
This video is from a year ago.
Kenji is Paul Ryan’s sister-in-law!
We learned something today .
“Yes, all your worst nightmares are correct. I will be a pawn for Joe Biden and the left.”
I’m of the opinion that is was finally struck down not because of the unfair treatment of the hated Caucasian Christian/right wing males, but because of the Asians
hmmm. makes sense.
Ha! could be TRUE!!! A CCP opinion! Invite more Chinese spies!
Justices Thomas and Alito really are NOT CCPs puppets for sure though, I am going by their actions (writings on each decisions). Besides, Asia is much larger than just China. Thank you.
many solid asian males were even more discriminated against.
Me too!!!!!!
From the Babylon Bee: “Democrats angry that the Supreme Court strikes down racism”
Notice many of these reports use the EXACT SAME title. Mockingbird.
This lady is an idiot, 99th percentile in SAT hovers in the 1550+ numbers, not 1450, and NO a 1450 score is NOT statistically indifferent from a 1550+ score. As far as a perfect 1600 SAT score, it was 939 two years ago, Hahvad accepts far more than that; number of perfect 36 ACT score is also less than 1,500 or # of acceptances. Should have been called upon by the other person. Also, ‘private’ coaching doesn’t improve a 1,200 score to a 1550+ score, at best, you can improve by 100 in SAT and 4 in ACT. I am too tired to put links for all Thank you.
And we can’t live up to the standard without the opposite being enforced institutionally.
To simplify it even more I saw a meme:
Republicans want everyone to start the race equally and Demonrats want everyone to finish the race equally.
Perfect!
Add that the Demonrats also want to control it the entire way while extracting tons of money and keeps them in control.
Excellent!
I’ve heard this, but that’s not what their actions show. They are factually working to prevent certain people from never finishing and never entering the race at all.
What they DO differs greatly from what they say.
Now we need to get rid of all the bogus university departments that warehouse these unqualified students, and profit from the warehousing.
I understand at least one college / university in NC did just that. The DIE administrations add zero value to anything, and that’s on their best days. More often than not, DIE administrators ruin everything they touch.
Will that happen before the Federal Government via the Department of (Mis)Education stops underwriting all the graduate and undergraduate loans to these Colleges and Universities?
80% of the colleges. Add instructors and professors.
Waiting and praying for this to spread to the Labor Market next.
Those are private companies and not backed by government.
Huh? And here I thought the SCOTUS already decided this way back in 1978 with the Bakke Case brought against my Alma Mater?
https://constitutioncenter.org/the-constitution/supreme-court-case-library/university-of-california-v-bakke
Ohhhhh … I see … the Universities summarily IGNORED the Law and continued with their race-based admissions. Newsflash! America has become a lawless Nation … both on the streets … and in the Chancellors offices.
The Black Racist Marxist Affirmative Action Is Defeated By 6-3 In A Scotus Ruling!!!: “BREAKING: Supreme Court Strikes Fatal Blow to Affirmative Action in Historic Ruling – Bans Race-Based College Admissions – All but Eight States Impacted,” by the TGP blog, 06/29/2023, 9:25 AM
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/06/breaking-supreme-court-strikes-fatal-blow-affirmative-action/
Thanks SCOTUS
FAffirmative Action
FBlack Racist Marxism
FDEI
FJB/LGB
So, Obama admitted that without affirmative action, he’d still be a lowly community organizer?
Tell me something that I didn’t already know….
Um, he had help from the See Y A.
Well Skippy, release your transcripts from all of the institutions you claim to have attended. Prove you “belong.”
probable SAT 1000-1200, mediocre grades for Choom boy
a true Poison Ivy candidate
How ironic that the party of institutionalized racism – the Democrat Party – has their panties in a knot over this ruling.
Well that closes off the opportunities for Scandinavian women with high cheek bones.
Harvard, UNC, Et Al. You don’t fix discrimination by discriminating
Want to get rid of racism? Stop practicing it!!
There was a coup in 2020. I refuse to pretend that the Supreme Court has validity. They allowed the coup, thus they became collaborators of the coup.
Decisions of a Bolshevik occupied court mean nothing. All that matters is who wins the second American revolution.
As hard as it was for me to stomach what I saw, I have to admit the basis for their ruling was actually consistent with the constitution. The states run their elections. While it would have been perfectly within the constitution for VP traitor to send EC votes back to the states in question, SCOTUS had established a heavy blow against the concentration of Federal power which is at the heart of so many garbage laws and policies.
And since that time, they have continued on this path striking down unconstitutional laws and unconstitutional SCOTUS rulings along the way.
We are in a better position now than we have seen in a long time.
And Trump WILL return. And when he does, after everything we have seen as a country, the swamp will drain MUCH more easily and with far less resistance. just watch.
We are counter punchers! Twice as hard!!! Be ready.
Best comment of the last 6 months. The coup’s been a long time in the making. 2020 was just an exclamation mark.
Took them long enough.
And I spit in obama’s general direction. What an adolescent, role-playing intellect. He thinks that saying, “We had to prove that we belonged….” is a useful justification for him being dependent on people making room for him based on his skin color. He is a stupid person.
He’s a “stupid person”? But…but he has been to all 57 states! That should count for something.
Like I said. He’s a stupid person.
Michelle Obama on the SCOTUS decision:
“…So today, my heart breaks for any young person out there who’s wondering what their future holds – and what kinds of chances will be open to them. And while I know the strength and grit that lies inside kids who have always had to sweat a little more to climb the same ladders, I hope and I pray that the rest of us are willing to sweat a little, too. Today is a reminder that we’ve got to do the work not just to enact policies that reflect our values of* equity and fairness, but to truly make those values real in all of our schools, workplaces, and neighborhoods.”
What she left out of her screed was the fact that she was accepted into Princeton, even though her test scores were low, because of her brother Craig Robinson who preceded her at Princeton to become it’s 4th highest-scoring basketballer, and two time Ivy-league player of the year there.
Her heart only breaks for young people who aren’t Asian or white with more smarts. Because she is a racist.
When her and Obama were campaigning in 2007 I listened to her. She was somewhere in the South, I believe. I sat on my bed crying,thinking how will I ever afford college for my daughter. Michelle was speaking so nice and sincere about poorer kids unable to go to college. Her talk was bringing me to tears when all of a sudden she turned into this racist ugly biotch, spewing such nastiness. She was only talking about poorer black children. I went from falling for Obama to, I would never vote for him ever. Because of her. Shes ugly inside and out. She uses the black card while never making herself presentable as First lady. Michelle and Obama are race baiters !
I got over any residual respect for affirmative action when I hung out with a bunch of upper middle class college-age and early 20’s black women around 15 years ago in Washington, DC and New York City. They were among the most unmotivated, entitled, snotty, l-a-z-y and r-a-c-i-s-t prima donnas I had ever met. Even some of the middle class-raised upper middle class black women who weren’t lazy or snotty were racist. I concluded that all affirmative action had done was create more dysfunction in blacks and society in general, and perpetuate the problems it purported to redress. The notion that the black upper middle class, or even middle class, had to work ‘harder’ than whites was the 2=2=5 doublethink that galvanized me. All I saw and lived was the exact opposite.
“Former President Barack Obama said in a statement that affirmative action “allowed generations of students like Michelle and me to prove we belonged.”.” This country would be much much better if neither obama was allowed college.
I wouldn’t begrudge them some cow tech, state poly or HBU
O might make a good used car salesman if he stayed out of trouble
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So… did his foreign-born well-off elite Kenyan-with-dual-British-citizenship passport father… get into Harvard via affirmative action?
Maybe it’s time that these taxpayer-funded institutions stopped admitting foreigners unless there is some extraordinary reason to do so.
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Well, that worm turned ………. big time ……. now on to breaching that dyke and letting the federal swamp drain into Atlantic Ocean……and to breaking up the criminal American Triad that has wrought pain and destruction onto America and Americans.
……… overturn the 2020 presidential election, removing biden and declaring President Trump as the winner.
This ruling should be applied universally, not just for colleges.
Reverse discrimination makes no sense.
“Affirmative Action” programs should be abolished.
ESPECIALLY true for air flight controllers, cops, doctors and teachers.
God-given words, SD!
Thank you!
Thanks be to God and DJT. A great day for equality. After decades of affirmative action discrimination, comes the dawn. Hallelujah.
This was long overdue but I’m glad we’re here.
I can’t help but think of how different the SC would be had Bush Jr. advanced Clarence Thomas to Chief instead of bringing in Roberts.
I just watched Created Equal: Clarence Thomas in his own Words, again the other night.
For those so inclined, Newsmax will be airing it on July 9, 1am EST.
Roberts was surely known to be controlled by the PTB
The mental gymnastics used, over decades, to bolster govt sponsored racism just flabbergasts me. Creativity abounds and we apply it to stupid crap that anyone reasoning at all sees right through. Then, we institutionalize it.
Schools are dropping the SAT in the name of diversity, but it was developed for diversity – how Ivy League schools in the early 20th Century could determine if a young man from other than an elite prep school could handle the rigors of their education.
I am so pleased.
The University of California system has already come up with workarounds.
1. Top 10% per high school – not statewide
2. No SAT / ACT requirement
3. ‘Holistic review’*
4. DEI hurdles to employment
* Another option is simply use economic affirmative action, which would not be race based.
Top 10% per high school? Yikes! How would that system work in places like Baltimore MD, where there were 10 high schools where ZERO students were proficient in math?
Soon after Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution was published, jurists in America applied evolutionary concepts to The Law. No longer was the Law seen as fixed, based on Principles set forth in Blackstone’s Commentaries on the Laws of England, the Declaration of Independence, The Constitution, and the Federalist Papers. Law was now seen as something which “evolved” to fit changing conditions and concepts. And the Judges and the Congress and Presidents were seen as the best judges of what the Law should be – of what the Constitution means. Fixed law is in the Constitution and is not compatible with any “theory.” All of which come and go—theory is eventually disproven.
Hallelujah. You knew the 3 activists who automatically vote against the Constitution every time would dissent.
Now do DEI before the commies can pack the court with a couple more loons.
And as Bill O’Reilly said, Liberals see the world as they would like it to be, Conservatives see it as it is. A very strong argument could be made that Leftist policies over the past decades have resulted in an historic transfer of wealth to a tiny minority of the world’s population. That is about to end…
With his statement, Obama admits his personal accomplishments are low in number and his character is questionable.
And……how does Trump not get full and complete support for the GOP nomination? Roe v. Wade – gone. AA in higher ed – gone.
Even when his is not officially in the Oval Office, we can keep on winning, just as he said we could.
MAGA. MAGA today. MAGA tomorrow.
They’ll still do it.
The app from Shitavious Ladarious Jackson will sit atop
the app from James Edward Smith, Jr. Far atop.
Unfortunately, many–if not all–Ivy League schools have been preparing for this ruling by dropping ACT and SAT scores as core admission standards are switching to vague and malleable standards that will skirt the law and allow for continued racist admissions acceptance.
It just means the nation’s “premiere” schools will continue to churn out ill-qualified and questionably competent graduates in all academic disciplines; medical professions, engineering, law schools, you name it.
I guess its going to take many thousands of citizens dying on operation tables, planes crashing in the skies and on approach and takeoff, buildings and similarly engineered structures failing catastrophically and so on before the lawsuits become too numerous, too expensive and the associated insurance premiums in these professions prohibitively expensive before this insane yearning to worship the black race ends.
Good Show, SCOTUS,… but the Woke Marxists that now Control our Institutions of Higher Indoctrination follow Alensky’s first law – “the Ends Justify the Means“,… not the US Constitution.
Round III will be coming soon for your Judicial Decisions, again,…. these Malcontent H8tahs never quit in their zeal to create again their Utopia,…. that has a history of Failures and Human destruction only.
Trying to use more discrimination to deal with disparities in results is an exercise that will always fail. Glad that this can finally be remedied. One thing that always bothered me is: why do Universities need a law to figure out how to get the best and brightest minds across the country?
Why don’t they use all of their endowment money and put it to good use?
They still need to abolish “disparate impact” and add all American citizens to Civil Rights act. The only protected class should be war veterans, I would think for obvious reasons.
The Sodom and Mammon crowd will still do racial quotas for patronage reasons. People have to sue them for this.
It’s the start.
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.
That’s rare; I can’t remember the last time a Democrat came close to doing anything like recusing themselves. I guess when you know the vote won’t be close, go ahead and recuse yourself to keep up appearances.
nevermind
Yes. Also, Jackson is the most junior member of the USSC so she has a LONG time to work with the other justices. Best to do the ethical thing now.
Plus, as u say, the vote wasn’t close anyway.
Plus, the Biden Govt/dems are proposing restrictions and scrutiny re: SCOTUS justices re: anything that may look unethical. They have been accusing Thomas of being unethical in accepting vacations from wealthy friends. Thomas is one of the most ethical justices on the court. I think Bryer accepted a lot more and was never questioned. Ginzberg too.
Totally a virtue signal gesture. She and the 2 communists knew how this case would break…so she attempted a lame move here to feel good and appear good. Smoke and mirrors and a pig with lipstick.
Or could it be that she was involved in the Dobbs leak and is under close enough scrutiny to keep her from getting away with any more such sabotage attempts…..?
She just did what she was told to do. Her recusal was purely strategic.
The enemy does not recognize our values, our ethics, our rules as being applicable to themselves.
They represent a complete inversion of God’s will for humanity.