Posted on 04/23/2014 6:08:15 AM PDT by bestintxas
The American public has woken up to the folly of trying to end racial discrimination by practicing it, dooming affirmative action to a slow death, and the racialist left is not taking the news very well. That is the only conclusion to draw from the extraordinary dissenting opinion yesterday by Justice Sonia Sotomayor in Schuette v BAMN, the case in which the Court upheld Michigan’s law outlawing racial preferences in state-funded higher education. Sotomayor took the unusual step of reading the dissent aloud from the bench, indicating her vehemence.
Justice Sotomayor’s dissent was actually longer than all the other opinions in the case combined, so that reading took a while. But she was faced with a difficult task in explaining why refusing to treat races differently is actually racial discrimination, so of course she need a lot of verbiage, background, and pretzel twisting.
Four aspects of her argument stand out:
She attempted to re-brand “affirmative action” as “race-sensitive admissions.”
“Although the term “affirmative action” is commonly used to describecolleges’ and universities’ use of race in crafting admissions policies, Iinstead use the term “race-sensitive admissions policies.” Some comprehend the term “affirmative action” as connoting intentional preferential treatment based on race alone—for example, the use of a quota system, whereby a certain proportion of seats in an institution’s incoming class must be set aside for racial minorities; the use of a “points” system,
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
Certain forms of mental instability show rather well on the outside.
Sotomayeer, like Obama, would not be where she is without affirmative action. We can assume she doesn’t deserve her lofty perch because Obama needed a Latina woman, and she had been at Harvard, a post she filled because she was a Latina.
Beauty is only skin deep but ugly goes clear to the bone.
Them’s some ugly ass bones.
Affirmative action has been dying for 40 years, remember the Bakke case when the white guy was denied medical school to give preference to someone who had the right color skin?
Dear Justice Sotomayor: In your face bee-atch!!
Not meaning to be cruel but when the career, writings and real accomplishments of Sotomayor are examined, it is the prototypical case study of affirmative action. It pads statistics and assuages white guilt but almost nothing worthwhile is achieved.
There’s no getting around the fact that “affirmative action” means lowering standards based on skin color or ethnicity.
It was predicted that she would bring nothing to the bench. No brilliance of thought. No intelligent reasoning. Just someone who is taking up space.
However, her thought process in this instance is difficult to understand. Can you imagine a court full of people like her?
Sotomayor’s logic is incredible! Affirmative Action means that certain minorities are given preferential treatment because of the color of their skin. She argues that the removal of this preferential treatment will unfairly impact these minorities. Of course, she ignores the fact that Affirmative Action, as currently practiced, unfairly impacts non-minorities.
It’s like saying that there is an umpire who uses a big strike zone for Black pitchers and a smaller one for White pitchers. A rule stating that he must use the same strike zone for all pitchers would negatively impact those Black pitchers who are currently gaining an unfair advantage. In other words, removing an unfair advantage disadvantages the ones who have gained from that unfair advantage. It makes my head spin.
Liberal is ugly to the bone!
I have never seen so many editorial mistakes in an American Thinker article. AA hire?
Hysterical harangues are what passes for “constitutional law” in modern day America.
As expected, Sotomayor’s dissent represents the Whining, Bitchy, Resentful, Moocher view.
Is the Democrat Party’s lingering support of the unconstitutional Affirmative Action Law mainly due to their guilt that the Democrat Party founded the KKK?
Without Affirmative Action she would have never become a judge.
Pray America wakes up
Great post but please next time add the word “liberal” so as to read “liberal white guilt”....
I think few of us on FR have ANY guilt on this subject. I know I darn sure don’t.
Only in America goes the saying, but in reality it exists everywhere. Totally incompetent people occupying seats they neither deserve nor can handle properly.
Hey, affirmative action worked for Elizabeth Warren.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.
