Thursday, June 29, 2023

SCOTUS rules against racist policy; Progs fume

What a time we're living in when some people are outraged over a U.S. Supreme Court ruling which overturns a racist policy. 

The U.S. Supreme Court handed down a major ruling on affirmative action Thursday, rejecting the use of race as a factor in college admissions as a violation of the 14th Amendment's Equal Protection Clause.

In a 6-3 decision, Chief Justice John Roberts wrote in the majority opinion that, "A benefit to a student who overcame racial discrim­ination, for example, must be tied to that student’s courage and determination."

"Or a benefit to a student whose herit­age or culture motivated him or her to assume a leadership role or attain a particular goal must be tied to that student’s unique ability to contribute to the university. In other words, the student must be treated based on his or her ex­periences as an individual—not on the basis of race," the opinion reads.

"Many universities have for too long done just the oppo­site. And in doing so, they have concluded, wrongly, that the touchstone of an individual’s identity is not challenges bested, skills built, or lessons learned but the color of their skin. Our constitutional history does not tolerate that choice," the opinion states.


But it was Justice Clarence Thomas's concurring opinion which took a proverbial blow torch to this case. 

 

"The solution to our Nation’s racial problems thus cannot come from policies grounded in affirmative action or some other conception of equity," Thomas writes. "Racialism simply cannot be undone by different or more racialism. Instead, the solution announced in the second founding is incorporated in our Constitution: that we are all equal, and should be treated equally before the law without regard to our race," he adds. "Only that promise can allow us to look past our differing skin colors."

Elsewhere in his concurring opinion, Thomas lays bare the left's flawed — and quite racist — beliefs about different races.

"In fact, all racial categories are little more than stereotypes, suggesting that immutable characteristics somehow conclusively determine a person’s ideology, beliefs, and abilities. Of course, that is false," Thomas notes. "Members of the same race do not all share the exact same experiences and viewpoints; far from it," he explains. "A black person from rural Alabama surely has different experiences than a black person from Manhattan or a black first-generation immigrant from Nigeria, in the same way that a white person from rural Vermont has a different perspective than a white person from Houston, Texas."


Perhaps what was most telling in the aftermath of this decision was how so many progs unwittingly let their racism flag fly. 


A former staffer in President Joe Biden's administration perfectly encapsulated what a lot of leftists were conveying. 


 



And I almost choked on the thick irony of Fauxcahontas' Sen. Elizabeth Warren's reaction. 


 



This from the woman who exaggerated her Native American heritage in order to benefit from affirmative action policies. It never ceases to amaze how these smug elites thoroughly lack any self awareness.


In the end, as Brad Polumbo notes, colleges have the potential to be even more diverse without utilizing affirmative action. 





The saber rattling among leftists will carry on for maybe another day or two.....or until the inevitable ruling which will throw out President Biden's policy canceling student loan debt.

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