Posted on 01/28/2022 3:14:48 AM PST by Kaslin
The Supreme Court is going to hear two cases about racial preference in college admissions that allegedly discriminates against Asian students.
In the 1978 Bakke decision, the Supreme Court said race could be a factor in admissions, but as anyone who is sat through an academic committee meeting knows, when race is a factor, it is the only factor.
Even though the Supreme Court in Bakke said that a set-aside for admissions, or quota, was impermissible, colleges and universities routinely use racial quotas masquerading as goals.
The consequence has been that highly qualified Asian students are rejected on trivial and subjective data, such as leadership skills and self-confidence, to increase the proportion of less qualified blacks and Latinos.
How do Asian students achieve high academic status and participate in a range of extracurricular activities while lacking in leadership, self-confidence, and other personality traits? The answer is that when it comes to Asians, the subjective evaluation process is a farce designed to discriminate against them.
Race-based admissions are not the exception but the rule. And no one but diversity, inclusion, and equity experts conducting so-called cultural audits has profited from this policy.
Colleges and universities are run by a professional class of bureaucrats. And if anything, members of bureaucracy know that the very essence of their work is their own survival.
To survive the political pressure of diversity, colleges and universities play a numbers game and reduce standards to produce a student population that will meet the espoused goals of cultural auditors and intrusive minority politicians.
A great deal of social policy is counterintuitive. Among the casualties of the policy are the very minorities it is supposed to advantage.
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Of course they should.
But what if they don’t? Will whites continue to accept that they are evil and guilty of something?
I think we would all have been better off if the Civil Rights Act of 1964 had simply said that “race is a false concept” and that no law or private policy is allowed to mention it. People are people. Judge them on their merits because there isn’t anything else to judge them on.
They CAN’T since the NEXT Supreme Court Justice WILL be a RACIAL PREFERENCE HIRE!! NOT QUALIFIED? NO PROBLEM, you are BLACK and check a Box!!
In order to remain strong, we must have a meritocracy. I once believed that through judicious application, schools could make a few exceptions for young people that may fall short of admission standards but have otherwise excelled academically under serious adversity. But the left has ruined any notion of careful application of giving some deserving young person a break in life. Instead they opened the floodgates.
You said it.
The worst impact of racial preferences is that despite all the lip service that “we’re all equal”, these programs indicate THE GOVERNMENT DOESN’T BELIEVE IT - and so the alleged beneficiaries don’t either.
Yes, that’s what the plaintiffs are saying.
Can we file a lawsuit based on discrimination?
They CAN’T since the NEXT Supreme Court Justice WILL be a RACIAL PREFERENCE HIRE!! NOT QUALIFIED? NO PROBLEM, you are BLACK and check a Box!!
Racism disguised as Diversity is still Racism !!
What part of this says that one race has preference over another?
I believe that the issue is the leftists have a different understanding of the purpose of government than was envisioned by the Founders and by those of us in that tradition.
They believe that government is instituted to manage good outcomes.
There was discrimination at points in the past that disadvantaged people by race. With this belief in ensuring outcomes, the leftists believe that application of reverse discrimination shall compensate for those past events and their Government shall lift up, restore and equalize those successors of the disadvantaged even if they were not disadvantaged themselves.
This belief in government is the true origin of socialism. The economic schemes associated with socialism were instituted only to pay for the bizarre and overblown concept of government as nothing less would suffice and ensure the adequate amount of funds and control.
Any understanding of the limitations of government imposed by our Constitution will result in an overthrow of such schemes. If however, the judge sees our Constitution as a mere etherial outline of hopes and envisions himself the arbiter of good and justice, the door is opened to wrong headed decisions.
The Dems are bent on destroying MERIT.
the should also reject racial preferences in the Supreme Court itself.
Interesting case.
Rolling back affirmative action will cause tidal waves in the economy.
If you are not black, Hispanic, female, gay or transgender the cards are stacked against you. To the point Biden says he will nominate a black woman to the SCOTUS and I haven’t seen a straight white man in commercials for a while.
All excused under diversity rules, which find their basis in affirmative action.
The law is against it, but business and big .gov is for it.
If colleges used SAT and GPA alone, most of our universities would be 100% Asian. Not saying that’s good or bad, but it’s food for thought. . .
We don’t have enough Asians to fill up all our colleges, so they’d have to accept others.
We do in California! All UCs would be 100% Asian.
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