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| DEI Should Have Ended Harvard's ‘Elite' Status 60 Years Ago (Or More) |
| 2025-06-05 |
| [The Federalist] Strong evidence contradicting Harvard University’s claim of elite status was available decades before the Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard University lawsuit the Supreme Court ended in 2023. Harvard’s subjugation of merit to politics goes all the way back to at least the 1920s, when, as Justice Clarence Thomas noted in his SFFA v. Harvard concurrence, it set quotas on Jews to reduce their enrollment. Indeed, as I note in my recent book about identity politics, "the federal government had begun hiring people based on race" and demanded the same of its contractors as far back as Franklin D. Roosevelt’s presidency in the 1930s and 1940s. Under Roosevelt, the federal government pioneered the "disparate impact" doctrine today better known as diversity, equity, and inclusion, or DEI. The 1964 Civil Rights Act and other identity politics measures of the era were immediately interpreted by federal agencies and courts as requiring employers such as universities, even private ones, to hire and promote on the basis of sex and race. So, as I explain in False Flag, even though the Civil Rights Act explicitly bans "preferential treatment" by race or sex, it has always been used by federal agencies and courts to require the opposite. This means, as Thomas testified in the 2020 documentary Created Equal, racial discrimination in favor of minorities at so-called elite schools was already widespread when he studied law in the early 1970s. Thomas was accepted to Harvard, the University of Pennsylvania, and Yale law schools, and went to Yale. Related: Harvard: 2025-06-01 Tapper: Harvard, Other Schools Have Negative View of Entire West, ‘Theology of Oppressor and Oppressed' Harvard: 2025-06-01 VDH - Harvard, You're Entitled to Nothing (video) Harvard: 2025-06-01 Mark Carney''s daughter Cleo caught up in Trump-Harvard standoff Related: Clarence Thomas 04/19/2025 Sanctuary Supreme Court Halts Trump Deportations Under Alien Enemies Act Clarence Thomas 03/23/2025 Update: Social Media Falsely Claims Chief Justice John Roberts Is In Secret Club of Judges Clarence Thomas 03/06/2025 Latest SCOTUS Ruling Leaves Justice Alito ''Stunned'' |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #8 The best and brightest are nice, but not nearly as necessary as reality-based and common sensical. The destruction happens when the rulers, however bright or stupid, live in a dream world and insist on imposing those impossible dreams on the rest of us. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2025-06-05 21:20 |
| #7 /\ Comments 5 and 6 are certainly not mutually exclusive. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2025-06-05 17:38 |
| #6 ^You confuse cause and effect. Civilizations fall because they stop being run by the best and the brightest. |
| Posted by: Grom the Reflective 2025-06-05 15:05 |
| #5 ...hierarchical, tribal, and territorial entities who once successful against their neighbors usually beset by corruption, civil war, and mismanagement coupled with an outside threat that either cleans up or is welcome the those disenfranchised. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2025-06-05 15:01 |
| #4 ^Why do you think civilizations collapse? |
| Posted by: Grom the Reflective 2025-06-05 12:20 |
| #3 Whatever happened to the best and the brightest? The system chews them up and spits them out. |
| Posted by: Grom the Reflective 2025-06-05 12:17 |
| #2 Is that why our government is so dysfunctional? Because elite universities used some criteria other than merit to determine who would be admitted? IOW, elite students from elite families got admitted and certain demographics got admitted regardless of merit? Then they went on to get the top jobs in government, academia and in major corporations because they graduated from schools like Harvard? They were on the inside track, the game was rigged in their favor? And then, since they were arrogant and incompetent, they screwed everything up? Whatever happened to the best and the brightest? |
| Posted by: Abu Uluque 2025-06-05 12:11 |
| #1 Justice Thomas is correct; new name (DEI) given an old program. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2025-06-05 02:56 |