Posted on 06/23/2016 12:00:02 PM PDT by Timpanagos1
Abigail Fisher, the plaintiff in the latest round of affirmative action cases heard before the Supreme Court, is the perfect villain in a liberal morality play about the evils of racism.
(Excerpt) Read more at salon.com ...
“What I don’t understand is since UT-Austin is a state school, couldn’t the Texas legislature just step in and bar their Affirmative Action policy? And if so, why haven’t they already done so?”
The entirety UT Board of Regents was appointed by Republican governors.
It was the Republican state legislature that passed the 10% rule.
Says the mediocre White journalist, who is apparently without a sense of irony.
Actually, it's worse. We get unqualified and incompetent blacks and Hispanics coasting on their racial privileges, and add the unqualified and incompetent LBGTQXYZ crowd as a special bonus. It's not the death of American Exceptionalism, it's the death of competency.
How can any sane person, let alone a highly educated, and supposedly intelligent judge, twist “equal treatment under the law” to mean unequal treatment. A minority class of millions, has more standing under the law as oppressed, than the single solitary one person. The single person being protected against 6,999,999,999 Billion in the world is what the US Constitution and its system is supposed to protect.
Because whitea were never meant to be included in “inclusiveness” or add their distinctiveness as part of “diversity”. Multiculturalism is nothing but a scam
Ironically, the reason for the challenge is the legislature's solution to Affirmative Action without actually banning it:
If you are in the top 10% of your high-school graduating class, you are guaranteed admission to UT Austin. That accounts for about 75% of every freshman class.
It results in heavy competition for the remaining 25% of spots. The UT Board of Regents uses race as one of the criteria.
Frankly, I don't know why the Legislature hasn't just banned it outright, but I suspect it has something to do with the makeup of the TX legislature and rules that prevent a bill from advancing in the Senate without 2/3rd support.
Folks list you race as non white. Same with your children. If we are all minorities what are they going to do then? Beat em at heir own game
You're just jealous because Obama is not saying in which cereal box he found his Nobel Prize.
“The counter-move to this ruling is for all white people to claim some other ethnicity in every case where it would provide some benefit.”
Correct.
Asian privilege is to white privilege as white privilege is to black privilege. Different levels of intellectual superiority, hence the reason why some excel in the game of life.
Nothing more, nothing less.
I don’t need SCOTUS to tell me affirmative action is racist, un-American and unconstitutional. Even the Supreme Court can’t state “up” is “down” and vice-versa and expect intelligent people to believe otherwise. Thank the idiots who put Kennedy, Soto-Mayor, Ginsberg and Stevens on the court and the even bigger gutless cowards in the GOP establishment who did nothing to stop it. Maybe 13% of all white congresscreeps should resign so they can be replaced with Congress persons of color to make sure Congress is racially balanced!!!!!
More Black Privilege.....
But not of their ambition, greed, arrogance, and ruthlessness
I imagine they, like Charles Manson before them, think that they will be in charge when the Demographics have overwhelmed all the other "white" people out there.
They had people like this in the Russian revolution too. They were called "useful idiots."
Let them prove you are not whatever ethnicity you care to claim to be.
Can do the same with gender if it comes to that.
Sure. If mentally ill people can "identify" with the opposite gender, rational people can "identify" as whatever gender or race they wish.
What would really throw these people is for an obviously white man to "identify" as a black female. They may try to balk at the racial "identification", but they dare not balk at the "gender" identification.
I predict the time will come when we have to confront these people with fists, baseball bats, and guns.
Patriots beware !
Post-FDR era, institutionally indoctrinated justices seemingly avoid mentioning 10th Amendment-protected state powers concerning cases like this one imo.
Noting that I agree that the Court’s decision on this issue is constitutional, both sides of this issue are nonetheless overlooking (ignoring?) the simple constitutional basis for the Court’s decision imo.
More specifically, the only race-related issue that the states have amended the Constitution to expressly protect is voting rights as evidenced by the 15th Amendment.
But since this issue is clearly outside the scope of voting rights, there is no constitutionally enumerated right that the states would be abridging if they establish affirmative action policies.
Also note that such policies are also ultimately up to what the legal majority voters of a given state want, again, as long as such policies respect constitutionally enumerated rights.
As a side note to this post, please consider the following. There are many race and sex-based civil rights laws that the feds actually had no constitutional authority to make imo. Corrupt lawmakers probably made such laws to win votes from low-information voters, voters who have never been taught about the federal government’s constitutionally limited powers.
Nah, sounds like National Review.
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