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2023-06-29 -Great Cultural Revolution

U.S. Supreme Court strikes down university race-conscious admissions policies

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Posted by DarthVader 2023-06-29 10:32|| || Front Page|| [11136 views ] Top

#1 Good. Now do race weighting for government jobs

Posted by DarthVader 2023-06-29 10:33|| 2023-06-29 10:33|| Front Page Top

#2 This all should have happened when Bakke was decided. The leftist media has for a while now been opining how the universities will go with business as usual, just as gun banners have done since Bruen.

Posted by M. Murcek 2023-06-29 10:37|| 2023-06-29 10:37|| Front Page Top

#3 Article did not mention the breakdown, which was 6-3, so not a straight conservative vote.

Posted by M. Murcek 2023-06-29 10:39|| 2023-06-29 10:39|| Front Page Top

#4 Theoretically, every university - and by extension, all businesses - should have to eliminate their DEI offices and troops immediately.

We know, of course, that won't happen...

Posted by M. Murcek 2023-06-29 10:54|| 2023-06-29 10:54|| Front Page Top

#5 Article did not mention the breakdown, which was 6-3

All the liberal justices dissented, and Chief Justice John G. Roberts joined with the conservative court members, writing for the majority.

Posted by DarthVader 2023-06-29 11:38|| 2023-06-29 11:38|| Front Page Top

#6 Right. So it will be argued, "The evil pub court overturned ..., leading to increased calls for court-packing.

Posted by Bobby 2023-06-29 11:41|| 2023-06-29 11:41|| Front Page Top

#7 It's amazing how people have lost the ability read -

Fourteenth Amendment

Section 1

All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.

Everything else is Rube Goldberg logic. If we get another republic I expect its Constitution will unfortunately have to be the size of a small town phone book in order to explicitly tell each branch of government what it can not do.

Posted by Procopius2k 2023-06-29 12:05|| 2023-06-29 12:05|| Front Page Top

#8 Universities will come up with a different function that yields the same result. The good news is they will continue to get the Oberlin College treatment. They will be a cash register for Asian Americans going forward. At some point, taking back education involves reducing the loan dollars per student availed from the Federal Government. The inflation of those amounts available have increased what colleges charge, the worthless curriculum and administration they have added, and the dead horse of debt that students are left carrying.

Posted by Super Hose 2023-06-29 12:14|| 2023-06-29 12:14|| Front Page Top

#9 Big loophole in ruling so about 80 or 90% of the quota regime will remain

Posted by Lord garth 2023-06-29 12:21|| 2023-06-29 12:21|| Front Page Top

#10 This was expected on the left. I think it was on Tuesday that I heard a discussion on my local NPR station — they assume the next step is for universities, etc to give the same special treatment by economic class instead of race, giving them the ability to point out that they are helping poor whites the same way they’re helping poor Blacks, and therefore not discriminating on the basis of race — the assumption being that neither Asian-Americans nor Jews are ever poor.

Posted by trailing wife 2023-06-29 12:22|| 2023-06-29 12:22|| Front Page Top

#11 The racket to tap the treasury for "education" will always find was to push increasingly worthless paper debt onto the witless. But the ability to get direct subsidies for a student population with a 44% recidivism rate is a new wrinkle.

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/thousands-more-prisoners-across-us-120845538.html

Recidivism rates in the U.S. are some of the highest in the world with almost 44% of criminals released returning to prison within their first year out.

https://wisevoter.com/state-rankings/recidivism-rates-by-state/

Posted by NoMoreBS 2023-06-29 12:50|| 2023-06-29 12:50|| Front Page Top

#12 So Harvard has to obey the law (Civil Rights Act of 1964--which means they've had 59 years to figure out what it means), just like the rest of us. They are very upset about it--I'll copy the message that Harvard alumni got just a few minutes ago:

A few hours ago, the Supreme Court issued its decision in our admissions case—a decision that carries weight not only for Harvard as an institution, but for many of us as individuals. Today is a hard day, and if you are feeling the gravity of that, I want you to know you’re not alone. Please take a moment to watch my message.

Posted by Tom 2023-06-29 13:42|| 2023-06-29 13:42|| Front Page Top

#13 Obamas say affirmative action allowed them to 'prove we belonged' in college

Yeah, just think how different the world would be today if not for Affirmative Action.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2023-06-29 13:51|| 2023-06-29 13:51|| Front Page Top

#14 Set as the Burg headline of the day.

Posted by trailing wife 2023-06-29 14:11|| 2023-06-29 14:11|| Front Page Top

#15 Democrats Devastated As Supreme Court Bans Racism

U.S. — Democrats in mourning today after the Supreme Court ruled that racial discrimination in college admissions is unconstitutional. Left-wing experts say this will greatly hinder their God-given right to fight racism by being racist.

"By banning racism, the extremist right-wing Supreme Court has banned anti-racism," said Congresswoman AOC. "This will greatly hinder our ability to tinker with human behavior until everything looks like like we think it should in our infinitely wise minds. Minorities are NOTHING without us! How will they survive? This is a tragic day for America."

Experts say that this move will allow people to go to college based on their hard work and merit, rather than their skin color, finally realizing MLK's dream. They also estimated that by 2025 all college students in the country will be Asian.

Posted by Beavis 2023-06-29 17:39|| 2023-06-29 17:39|| Front Page Top

#16 I mean, it's like the Constitution actually does say what it means and means what it says.

Posted by M. Murcek 2023-06-29 17:49|| 2023-06-29 17:49|| Front Page Top

#17 Democrats Devastated As Supreme Court Bans Racism

They were bummed when we freed their slaves, too. Suck it up.

Many moons ago, when affirmative action (aka "good racism") was becoming a thing, one of the Sunday news shows did a piece on affirmative action at the University of Michigan. It was pretty much what we've come to expect in such stories, but one bit stood out - an interview with a young black gal who had gotten into U of M on her own merits. She was incensed that she worked hard to get where she was but now people would now look at her and lump her in with the affirmative action admissions. An unfortunate but seemingly obvious result.

AA may ~~pretend to~~ be a noble goal, but it does not work because it focuses on the wrong end of the educational pipeline. If you want more students prepared for college, you need more student prepared for high school, which means you need to teach them to read and write in elementary school. Assuming you want the problem to go away and not just hang around as a cudgel to beat your political opponents.

Posted by SteveS 2023-06-29 20:31|| 2023-06-29 20:31|| Front Page Top

#18 This action reportedly does not apply to the military.

Posted by Besoeker 2023-06-29 21:32|| 2023-06-29 21:32|| Front Page Top

#19 Ultimately combat cancels affirmative action. Heavy processing cost though.

Posted by Glenmore 2023-06-29 21:39|| 2023-06-29 21:39|| Front Page Top

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