Posted on 11/02/2022 9:23:09 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Simply a number.
Alito pounced with the obvious question: “If it doesn’t matter, why do you do it?” Waxman dismissed the “personal score” as a “matter of triage” for overwhelmed admissions officers.
So a Jewish Harvard Lawyer representing Harvard argues that Harvard can pick groups based upon their likeability and we don't like Asians so much because they lack personality.
This utter lack of intellectual integrity and hypocrisy characterizes our most "prestigious" academic institutions and the institutions their graduates now infect.
The liberal arguments beg the question: Since European and Asian students are being barred from many colleges and universities based on their race would it be acceptable for those groups to start their own racially segregated colleges and universities so their children would be assured of an education?
For instance the European kids could go to a school that’s just for European kids. The Asian kids would do the same.
And these colleges and universities would necessarily prohibit other racial groups from attending their schools in order to reserve seats for their own kids.
Would that be okay?
If not then is the purpose of these racially based admissions policies at UNC, Harvard, etc. not just to advantage blacks and Hispanics but to disadvantage Europeans and Asians?
RE: So a Jewish Harvard Lawyer representing Harvard argues that Harvard can pick groups based upon their likeability
Theere was a time when Jews were overrepresented in elite college admissions ( they were 3% of the US population but 20% of the Ivy League student population ).
I woner if this is still true today...
One of the best parts was when Supreme Court Justice Sotomayor (an Affirmative Action appointee) pointed out that racism does, in fact, still exist — it is “de jure” as she said.
Only problem: Things which “exist” apart of any law are “de facto” and things which exist because the legal system creates them are “de jure”.
The Supreme Court Justice doesn’t know what “de jure” means. Either that, or she thinks Jim Crow is still in place.
I had four students from a family with a black American father and a Malaysian mother. The kids were all bright, attractive and popular in my semi-rural school. The eldest came back for some school function and he was applying to colleges to start a medical education. I jokingly asked him if he put down black or asian on his college admissions papers. “Black, of course,” was his reply.
This was something like 20 years ago and everyone knew what was going on. If you’re black you will likely get in, Asian, not so much. The same is true of whites, but it seems like discrimination against them is viewed as ok.
On the topic of oboe players, I think it was Detroit that held blind auditions to make their orchestra more ‘diverse’. Turns out the blind auditions did not provide the ‘diversity’ required. Can’t have that.
The wide Latina, Fat judge in a little robe (Kagan), and Affirmative Action Jackson are the troika of tyranny
Harvard’s “anti-Asian” discrimination is also anti-white discrimination!!!!
More importantly. if Harvard wants to be great again, it needs to lose the “diversity, equity, and inclusion” garbage!!!! Elect a conservative scientist as Harvard’s new President, and FIRE all the “diversity” deans!!!!
Yes, I am a Harvard PhD alumnus. So I know what I am talking about!!!!
Good analysis
we live in an age of contradictions
when leftists rail against discrimination
and then they practice it.. overtly, brazenly...in education, employment, and in their political campaigns
divide and conquer still works - the commies and nazis are mostly still keeping their hands securely on the levers of power in our country
its hard to believe its 2022 and affirmative action is STILL allowed ANYWHERE!
Affirmative action IS racial discrimination. PERIOD.
Aren't Justice Thomas and Justice Coney Barrett also affirmative action appointees as well? Along with Justice Kagan?
Qualified people who are appointed in good faith by Appointers who are looking for good justices are placed there by merit, IMO.
Sotomayor is a terrible judge. She is unqualified. She was picked to fill a demographic hole. She is an Affirmative Action pick.
That’s how I’m using the term.
case I figured as much. But case before the court could well lump all of them under the same affirmative action umbrella
Whether or not Thomas was affirmative action in the eyes of 41, he is certainly one of the best justices in several generations—I can only think of two, Alito and Scalia, who I would place in the same category as far back as my mind can evaluate in a reasonable way.
Justice Thomas replaced Thurgood Marshall. No way anyone but a black man was going to be selected for that vacancy. So one could say that Justice Thomas is proof positive that even an affirmative action appointee can turn out to be an outstanding selection.
In fairness, there is a tradition of various seats on the Supreme Court being “tagged” that goes back to basically the beginning, though the tag varied-—a “Virginia-Maryland” seat, a “Deep South Seat”, (much later) a “Catholic seat.”
If it had been a different Republican, perhaps not. But your point is well-taken. If one does one’s very best within a group—great. Too much of this leads, however, to almost everyone within the group being misplaced.
Justices of the Catholic faith have predominated on the Court. There are 6 currently. You might better make a case for a “Jewish” seat since there have been relatively few and currently, only one.
Roger B. Taney was the first Catholic on the Supreme Court and I think that was part of the reason for the animus against him. He had been on the Court since 1836--if he had died before 1857 (Dred Scott decision) he would probably have a much better reputation now.
The last Jewish nominee who did not get confirmed was Merrick Garland. I think we are better off without him on the Court.
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