Posted on 07/07/2023 7:00:37 AM PDT by george76
Schools developing covert racial preference practicies to skirt Supreme Court ruling
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You probably think the Supreme Court just ended racial discrimination in university admissions, euphemistically called affirmative action, and a new day of equal treatment without regard to race or skin color has dawned.
You are mostly wrong.
Yes, SCOTUS invalidated the race-conscious practices of Harvard and UNC, holding that under the 14th Amendment a "student must be treated based on his or her experiences as an individual – not on the basis of race."
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That is a very important statement of our guiding constitutional principles. Yet already schools like Harvard are suggesting they will skirt the ruling by considering applicants’ experience with race as opposed to the applicants’ race itself. These games are not surprising and have been in the works for months.
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In anticipation of the expected ruling, new evasive ploys were developed to implement undercover racial preferences as part of a "Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion" agenda.
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First and foremost, the evidence of discrimination, not the discrimination itself, will be eliminated. Already, there is a trend to dispense with the standardized testing that proved the discrimination against students of Asian descent. Many universities have eliminated mandatory SAT testing, and professional schools are now toying with eliminating the LSATs and the MCATs.
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Without standardized testing to keep the process honest, discrimination will increasingly take place behind closed doors
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Offloading the discrimination onto third parties is yet another method to evade accountability.
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Another tactic is to disperse DEI programming
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Technology is yet another emerging evasion. .. even artificial intelligence
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We certainly are glad to see that the Supreme Court has rejected "race-conscious" discrimination. Yet no one should be deluded into thinking the battle has been won.
(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
So, your experience as an individual is having been born with African ancestry. Good. You’re in!
ChatGPT will write the essay for the applicants.
Poorly worded opinion. The hole is huge.
In the parallel dimension that Lefties live in, discrimination in the U.S. has been so bad that the only solution is to deify black people (in other words, treat them like house pets). What they fail to understand is that all this pampering and spoiling is only going to make them weaker, less intelligent, and less responsible.
Harvard is a private school. It is not subject to Amendment XIV.
Its federal student loan program is subject to Article I Section 8 federal law.
Poorly worded? I would contend it was purposefully worded for that exact purpose.
They’ll copy California’s example after Prop 209 was passed way back in 1996 which:
“amended California’s constitution to prohibit state governmental institutions from considering race, sex, or ethnicity, specifically in the areas of public employment, public contracting, and public education.”
Colleges have twisted themselves into knots to get around Prop 209 to discriminate against better qualified Whites and Asians in favor of lesser qualified Blacks and Browns - using such nebulous criteria such as essays, sob stories and “first in family to go to college,” and eliminated merit-based tests such as the SAT and ACT as a requirement for admission.
Every penny they get in federal research funding comes with a long list of federal compliance requirements.
Like all the UC’s, they depend on a cooperative federal bureaucracy to look the other way when they clearly violate those rules. Since said bureaucracy is largely made up of the beneficiaries of AA, there will be no opposition to the new games to be played.
It was so obvious that skirting the ruling would take place.
Luckily, those supposedly premier schools are now cesspools of progressive thought, and their graduates will only excel by being placed in positions of power by other powerful people.
True wealth is in productivity, and sustaining a society is also a technical expertise issue. Ultimately, those who do the work are the ones who excel.
Simple,garden variety,contempt for any law or decision that Maoists don't like.
“Resolved by the Assembly, the Senate concurring, That the Legislature of the State of California at its 2023–24 Regular Session commencing on the fifth day of December 2022, two-thirds of the membership of each house concurring, hereby proposes to the people of the State of California, that the Constitution of the State be amended as follows:
“That Section 31 of Article I thereof is amended to read:
SEC. 31. (a) (1) Except as provided in paragraph (2), the State shall not discriminate against, or grant preferential treatment to, any individual or group on the basis of race, sex, color, ethnicity, or national origin in the operation of public employment, public education, or public contracting.
(2) (A) Notwithstanding paragraph (1) but subject to approval by the Governor pursuant to the procedures in subparagraph (B), the State may use state moneys to fund research-based, or research-informed, and culturally specific programs in any industry, including, but not limited to, public employment, public education, and public contracting, if those programs are established or otherwise implemented by the State for purposes of increasing the life expectancy of, improving educational outcomes for, or lifting out of poverty specific groups based on race, color, ethnicity, national origin, or marginalized genders, sexes, or sexual orientations.”
https://legiscan.com/CA/text/ACA7/id/2827675/California-2023-ACA7-Amended.html
“(e) This section shall not be interpreted as prohibiting action which must be taken to establish or maintain eligibility for any federal program, where ineligibility would result in a loss of federal funds to the State.”
“....knowing it would take years for the matter to be addressed again.
“Simple,garden variety,contempt for any law or decision”
Sounds rebellious - sounds like some people will have to repay years of salary and medical benefits as should be required under Amendment XIV, Section 3.
The quality of a university is defined by the quality of its student body.
So if a good university dumbs down its student body by purposefully admitting less qualified students, it would be cutting its own throat. Sooner than later its reputation would take a dive.
So Harvard won’t be “Harvard” in a few years if they insist on giving preference to academically unqualified kids.
The new “Harvards” will be the schools that use this ruling to base admittance strictly on merit.
cut off federal funding
An unending stream of lawsuits from qualified people who were rejected will force universities to curtail their uber-biased anti-white admission policies.
Not unthinkable.
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