Supreme Court ends affirmation action

No.

Really? How many articles are there about 'tests being racist' and similar gaps being proof of 'racism'? It's the Ibram X Kendi mindset - "any disparity is racist"

The woke don’t even know what racism is, it’s just a theory most of em cling to because they feel sorry for themselves

Yes, really.

For instance, the disparity in the number of posts between you vs a healthy individual is not due to racism.

I can provide more examples if that helps.

To wit, historically, the primary beneficiaries of affirmative action have been white women. Women held only 35 percent of bachelor degrees before affirmative action policies were reintroduced; now, women’s enrollment in college outpaces men, and has for some time. Now, elite colleges and universities are giving men a boost in admissions considerations, because their grades and scores are not keeping pace with women’s.

Yet you’ll note that the Supreme Court did not ban gender consciousness in college admissions. Nor did it ban legacy consciousness, wealth consciousness, geographic consciousness, or athletic consciousness. Race, and only race, is the thing the conservatives don’t want colleges and universities to look at. Because race is the card white people use that never gets declined. It is their most powerful characteristic, the one through which all else is possible.

Affirmative action was one of the only policies that pierced that privileged veil and made white people question whether their lives, or their kids’ lives, would be better if they had been born Black. The answer was always “no.” (Chris Rock’s old joke that nobody white would want to switch places with him has always been devastatingly true, even if some white folks pretend that it’s not.) But the mere possibility that their whiteness wasn’t helping them out every single second of every goddamn day drove a certain kind of white person insane. Affirmative action made them feel like perhaps the world did not revolve around their hopes and dreams and comforts, so it had to be killed. Even previous Supreme Court decisions upholding affirmative action expressed an open yearning for the day when affirmative action would no longer be “necessary.” The previous justices even made up fanciful future dates when the policy could be safely done away with.

In his opinion, Roberts echoed these fanciful dates as a reason to end the policy. He writes, “[Affirmative action] admissions programs also lack a ‘logical end point.’” The idea that a policy meant to combat racism must end before the racism ends has always been Roberts’s special logical flaw.
It’s the one he used to gut the Voting Rights Act in Shelby County v. Holder. Roberts wants to hang a “Mission Accomplished” banner and declare victory over racism, and then immediately stop all efforts to combat racism.
None of that really matters now, though. The “why” of it is less important than the reality. Affirmative action is gone. Prestige-obsessed white parents have gotten what they wanted. Damaged Blacks who are willing to climb up a ladder and then pull it up behind them have gotten what they wanted. Students who think their intellectual “merit” can be captured on a multiple choice test, like well-trained dolphins who know exactly which hoops to jump through, have gotten what they wanted.

Congratulations on all their success: They’ve put a lot of effort into giving Black students another reason to apply to Howard instead of Harvard.
But I do wonder who all these people who successfully killed affirmative action will blame the next time a rejection letter comes in the mail. When they can’t argue that some poor Black kid is “taking their spot,” where will their misdirected frustrations land?

I suppose they’ll still blame Black people. As long as there is one Black person at a college or university, there will be at least one white kid knocked off the wait list who will believe the Black kid had some unfair “advantage” that boosted their application. I guess I can take some small solace in knowing that even without affirmative action, there will still be a lot of white rejects out there who will die mad.

by your comment, you clearly don't know what Woke is or when it was first used or who used it first and what context.

The only reason AA exists is so that underqualified/ relatively-less qualified minority candidates can get admitted. If AA recipients were qualified and deserving of the positions, there would be no reason for AA to exist. These institutions are by-and-large administrated by liberals these days, so no need for forced racial quotas as there SHOULDN'T be the alleged bias in admissions as libs claim to not be racist.

Lol give me a f*cking break, the reason YOU want AA so bad is because you believe it benefits YOU. You're projecting your own selfish opportunism onto others.

This comment exemplifies that very well. You think blacks students wouldn't want to apply to somewhere where they wouldn't have an unfair advantage in the admissions process.

Don't think for a second that people can't see through your racist screeds for the projection of your insecurities and resentments that they really are.

SMH...You are already doing it. Poor little white guy.

I do wonder who all these people who successfully killed affirmative action will blame the next time a rejection letter comes in the mail. When they can’t argue that some poor Black kid is “taking their spot,” where will their misdirected frustrations land?

You're the only one who seems frustrated, my friend.

No, it’s because the case that was brought to the Supreme Court was about race. That’s how the Supreme Court works. They rule on what is brought in front of them.

Because you don’t understand that invalidated the rest of your discussion

In the North Carolina case, Patrick Strawbridge, the white attorney making the case on behalf of the AAPI students, barely even mentioned them. Strawbridge offered arguments about how racial preferences helped Black students get into UNC, but he said nothing about how eliminating those racial preferences would help AAPI students. Indeed, he couldn’t make such an argument, because none exists. Ryan Park, the solicitor general of North Carolina (whose parents come from South Korea), pointed out that UNC actually admits AAPI students at a higher rate than African American students, which he called a “peculiar result” for those who think that the university’s race-conscious admissions program benefits black kids to the determinant of AAPI kids. Neither Strawbridge nor any of the conservative justices on the Supreme Court had an answer for this. They just moved on like the raw facts didn’t matter.

You're discounting the fact that Asian applicants, on average, are better candidates.

Advocates who are truly concerned about AAPI admissions at Harvard would probably be trying to exclude personal ratings as a factor Harvard can consider, but instead these white conservative lawyers are trying to exclude racial background—by which they mean a Black racial background—as a factor Harvard can consider. To put this nonsense more starkly: After the conservatives win, Harvard will not be allowed to consider an applicant’s race but will be allowed to consider an applicant’s personal rating. The very process that we know is hurting AAPI applicants at Harvard will be allowed to continue, while the process that has nothing to do with AAPI students will be ruled unconstitutional. This is what happens when you let white conservatives carpetbag an issue of minority representation: You get a solution that is good for white people and useless for everybody else.

We get it! You have a victim complex related to your race and you don't believe you and other members of your race can compete without special privileges. Your low self-esteem causes you to believe that you won't be able to succeed based on the same standards as white people, because YOU believe you are inferior. This self-hatred is projected as resentment towards white people. What you want is a solution that is good for YOU (affirmative action) and useless for everybody else. Your seething screeds make this painfully obvious.

Are you stating that affirmative action has 'nothing to do' with Asian students?

coach, I’m sorry, but you’re fooled. And if you’re this easily fooled, what else are you fooled about?

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