Congratulations to WHITE
SUPREMACY for winning
a huge victory today.
Thus tweeted Gene Wu, District 137’s representative to the Texas legislature.
That was his reaction to yesterday’sSupreme Court decision striking down racial discrimination in picking students for colleges and universities.
He’s a Democrat and in a tricky situation. The case was brought to the High Court by Asian Americans, who have been most discriminated against in college placement. Rep. Wu, himself Asian American, talks up the compensatory racial preference cause.
“Asian Americans have consistently been used as a foil to eliminate Affirmative Action programs which serve to repair centuries of intentional discrimination against Black and Latino AND Asian communities,” he argues. “Having Asian Americans as parties doesn’t make it any less racist.”
Actually, of course, discriminating in favor of “Black and Latino” applicants has hurt Asian Americans’ college placements the most, and provably so. Racial discrimination was the criterion. Not academic achievement, IQ, or ability to pay. Asian Americans were the big losers.
More than whites.
But all Rep. Wu can think about is WHITE SUPREMACY. In all-caps, no less.
He worries not one whit about racial discrimination against Asians!
As absurd as what we used to call “reverse” discrimination is, we can be sure that, after this current ruling, DEI-obsessed administrators will still seek ways to continue their discrimination on the basis of race.
Also being raised? The issue of legacy admissions, rewarding with preferential treatment applicants whose parents and grandparents previously attended the institution. Senator and GOP presidential candidate Tim Scott called for public universities to nix those policies as well. Scott was joined by President Biden and AOC.
Sounds like justice and fairness based on merit is on a roll.
This is Common Sense. I’m Paul Jacob.
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4 replies on “Affirmative Action Disaffirmed”
So why is the Court interested in a private institution’s admission decisions at all….?
In large part because the scope of anti-discrimination laws have long intruded into the sphere of private association and the Court has gone along with this intrusion.
But also because these ostensibly private institutions have very much become clients of the state.
When private institutions do, at the bidding of the state, things that the state is constitutionally prohibited from doing, they become subject to the same constitutional prohibitions as de facto state agents. The federal government cannot just delegate to third parties the unconstitutional things that its partisan members want to do.
Justice and fairness are in the eye of the beholder. John Roberts left a loophole in the decision when he said race could still be a factor in the admissions process. Too many people have a vested interest in promoting racial preferences and even fostering racial division.