The Supreme Court appears to have made it all but impossible to use race as a criterion in selecting or approving students for tertiary education. CNN reports:
CNN Chief Legal Analyst Laura Coates said the Supreme Court's decision to gut affirmative action in college admissions will have sweeping changes to education in the US.
"This opinion, make no mistake about it, it is going to change the landscape of education, and this is what the majority has asked for," she said.
The fact that almost every liberal and/or progressive and/or left-wing voice out there is currently screaming in protest at the decision makes it all the sweeter. Those people have made it very difficult, to the point of impossibility, for certain students (Asian in particular, but including whites) to get fair, even-handed consideration when applying for places at university. Hopefully, that will go away Real. Soon. Now. It's long gone time that happened.
I'm absolutely in favor of removing any shape, shade or form of discrimination on the grounds of race. The fact that universities have been able to use it as a back-handed form of "reverse discrimination" is as disgraceful as its former use to "hold down" black and hispanic candidates.
No racial discrimination means no racial discrimination, period.
Peter
Yea! Long overdue (9 years to be exact)!
ReplyDeleteI expect the colleges/universities will come up with NEW & IMPROVED criteria that are more RELEVANT...but will still have the same old effects.
ReplyDeleteDon't worry, they will figure out how to discriminate anyway. The President of Harvard already said that they will pay very close attention to the application essay for mentions of discrimination or inspiration.
ReplyDeleteIt won't take long for white boys to refer to the genocide their folks faced - hey, I identify as a genocide victim. Or Asians to talk about the slavery they had to overcome from their past - think Asian railroad slaves.
DeleteYou just make your claims sound alike. Probably a good idea to lock down your social media. Even more fun would be to use a AI created filter to make yourself look like the preferred group.
If they are lying there is no reason you should be obliged to honesty.
Race has not been removed as a criterion to get into the universities. They cannot use it directly as a checkbox item, but it can be considered when put forth in such things as the student's admission essay or other ways to show what racial group they are from. Expect all meritocratic criteria to be dropped from leftist universities' admission criteria.
ReplyDeleteGood luck with that. It will change very little except someone will get to rewrite the university policies so they don't sound as bad. College admissions has a way of wordsmithing things to keep their jobs intact.
ReplyDeleteThe Leftists lose at SCOTUS, they just figure a way to skirt the ruling.
"Hopefully, that will go away Real. Soon. Now."
ReplyDeleteI like to translate (to American English) the Yiddish word, Halevai (הַלְוַאי) as: "From your mouth to G-d's ear"; others, usually not quite so optimistic, translate it as: "It should only happen."
The opinions are quite lengthy, I understand, and the majority opinion was authored by Chief Justice Roberts. He is known for attempting to cobble a majority by giving everyone something in the process, so this opinion will bear some parsing to figure out what kind of weasel wording he used that would likely vitiate the effect of the overall holding. I may be pleasantly surprised, but I suspect I will find some caveats and qualifiers, especially
ReplyDeleteHaven't had time to read the opinion yet (it's a long one), but it seems that Clarence Thomas' concurring opinion has a slap down of the dissenting opinion of Justice Jackson that is epic.
ReplyDeleteWe could use a little "blind justice" that sees the law and not "social justice."
The ruling will save the HBCU's across the country. New students for them whom the Fed's will pay for.
ReplyDeleteI am glad for the SCOTUS decision. If the colleges put in some "essay" to get in instead of the SATs then they will end up being sued.
ReplyDeleteThe more things change, the more they stay the same. The social whiners will still whine, the aggreived gib me dats will still p*ss and moan that someone else still has more or better than they regardless of their effort. And so it goes.
ReplyDeleteHere's to Ron Utz. The guy who provided the clear analysis that started this movement and this lawsuit
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