BREAKING: Supreme Court Bans Affirmative
Action in College Admissions
PJ Media,
by
Mat Margolis
Original Article
Posted By: Heil Liberals,
6/29/2023 10:56:55 AM
The Supreme Court has ruled that it is unlawful for colleges and universities to use race as a factor in admissions, overturning rulings from as far back as 1978 that claimed institutions of higher education had a valid interest in promoting racial diversity on campus and could thus give favorable consideration to black and Latino applicants in their admissions process.
Two separate decisions were reached in which the nation’s highest court ruled that Harvard University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill engaged in unlawful discriminatory practices based on race that violated the Constitution.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
Luandir 6/29/2023 11:09:44 AM (No. 1501907)
Affirmative Action has had forty-five years to prove its worth. It hasn't. Colleges deny the most qualified applicants, and their quota-filling replacements wash out after one or two years, all for the sake of photos of "diverse" smiling faces in their brochures.
And you still are on the hook for that student loan.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Norway 6/29/2023 11:09:59 AM (No. 1501908)
OMG! College applicants will now have to qualify solely on their intelligence and test scores? That so racist! (sarc off).
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
jalo1951 6/29/2023 11:11:42 AM (No. 1501912)
Earn your way in on your grades. Not by checking a woke box. You can start by taking your elementary, middle school, and high school education seriously. I want to deal with the best not the person who checks the most boxes.
51 people like this.
Reply 4 - Posted by:
Gordon Mills 6/29/2023 11:12:54 AM (No. 1501915)
Won't change a thing. The colleges can admit anyone they choose.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
David Key 6/29/2023 11:21:50 AM (No. 1501925)
We've had nearly fifty years of affirmative action, a half black president, all kinds of laws against discrimination. What's the result? We are farther apart as a nation racially than perhaps since the Jim Crow days. I've lived thru this period and I am disgusted with the whole mess. From MLKjr's "I have a Dream", to Black so called educators pushing segregation and the destruction of the white race. Even in the darkest days of slavery, almost nobody would have dreamed of suggesting that we kill all the black people in the USA. We are fixated upon two things, Race....Gender. I have black neighbors who are wonderful folks, I've had my share of white trash living next door as well. As to gender, well I have said before we're in the Crazy years(read Robert Heinlein), when the whole world seems to go mad best arm yourself and hunker down till it passes as eventually it will.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
DVC 6/29/2023 11:28:18 AM (No. 1501934)
Great news. AA should be illegal anywhere and everywhere. It is racism, pure and simple, and it is POLICY in most large companies in the USA.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Ida Lou Pino 6/29/2023 11:37:10 AM (No. 1501951)
So - - once again - - the "anti-racism" members of the court - - are saying that blacks are genetically incapable of competing academically with other races.
Yup - - that's EXACTLY what they're saying.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
MickTurn 6/29/2023 11:41:45 AM (No. 1501962)
Oh, NOW Racial Discrimination is FIXED. NO ONE IS SPECIAL, PERIOD!
7 people like this.
Reply 9 - Posted by:
red1066 6/29/2023 11:48:47 AM (No. 1501970)
I guess this won't have any effect on college football and basketball teams. That's a whole different matter.
23 people like this.
Reply 10 - Posted by:
LC Chihuahua 6/29/2023 12:01:50 PM (No. 1501980)
Affirmative action turned into preferential treatment long ago. Hope this expands to hiring practices too.
Liberal states will announce they do not intend to adhere to the SC ruling by the end of the day. Guess that's what lawlessness looks like. Biden will call for packing the SC.
21 people like this.
Reply 11 - Posted by:
Hazymac 6/29/2023 12:04:17 PM (No. 1501981)
Doesn't matter. The colleges will reclassify, and the practice will continue.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
bpl40 6/29/2023 12:07:28 PM (No. 1501985)
What happens to (Only) Black Lives Matter?
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
mc squared 6/29/2023 12:12:53 PM (No. 1501987)
Can we crackers get reparations for the opportunities denied to us for 45 years?
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
davew 6/29/2023 12:44:12 PM (No. 1502009)
Doesn't this ruling apply to reparations as well? How can one form of class benefit (educational opportunity) be unconstitutional and the other (economic opportunity) not be?
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
DVC 6/29/2023 12:49:16 PM (No. 1502016)
Re #2....no, many colleges have banned using testing and grades for admission, because their favored minorities have dismal results in both.
I think it will be a raffle nowdays, it's the only thing left that ensures that whites and asians won't dominate....on MERIT.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
volksford 6/29/2023 1:06:12 PM (No. 1502026)
Of course Biden's social justice pick ( Jackson) is really upset .
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
NamVet70 6/29/2023 1:14:16 PM (No. 1502033)
Great decision, however it may have some impact on the admission of athletes. Football recruiters will have to be more cognitive of the actual academic performance of their recruits.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
DVC 6/29/2023 1:19:07 PM (No. 1502036)
Re #4....no, that is EXACTLY what this ruling says...they cannot choose on the basis of race.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
kono 6/29/2023 1:19:17 PM (No. 1502037)
AA has been struck down by courts before and overturned by ballot initiatives, too, only to be rebranded and reenacted shortly thereafter. The Left accept neither defeat nor rebuke. "Progressive" just means incremental shifts to the Left and pathological persistence
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
Mizz Fixxit 6/29/2023 1:49:39 PM (No. 1502071)
As Biden shuffled away from the podium after his comments in response to the ruling, a reporter shouted, “is this a rogue court?” Biden stopped and sputtered, “this is not a normal court.” I think the question was a plant.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
moebellini3 6/29/2023 2:19:21 PM (No. 1502085)
Diversity, equity and quota systems have destroyed this country. All have failed miserably and democrats still don't get it. Why, because they, the democrats, are totally responsible for the lack of progress in minority communities. Think about it, with all of their hysterical outbursts, they and they alone are against charter schools, school choice and voucher programs, three things that can bring minorities out of poverty. Over 90% of students in Chicago and Baltimore schools cannot pass the most basic english, reading and math tests. That's right, it's a fact. Democrats brag about how many jobs they created yet minorities can't fill them because they don't have the basic job skills. Fact is, the communist democrats are running the biggest plantation on the planet. Freakin hypocrites.
10 people like this.
Reply 22 - Posted by:
Omen55 6/29/2023 2:30:48 PM (No. 1502097)
What those 3 will never admit is affirmative action is the only reason they are on SCOTUS.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
LadyVet 6/29/2023 2:41:29 PM (No. 1502106)
Colleges have already eliminated SAT scores (too many Asians and white males with high scores on math) so as to rule out merit based admissions. Now they will judge the "story" of each applicant. There will be AI generated sob stories to choose from.
10 people like this.
Reply 24 - Posted by:
Safari Man 6/29/2023 4:21:13 PM (No. 1502174)
I was OPENLY discriminated against by multiple college admissions boards who bragged about their racism and sexism. Ima need sum reparashuns.
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
DVC 6/29/2023 4:59:20 PM (No. 1502194)
I'm so old that my high SAT scores and top HS grades were a plus to get into the college that I chose.
How weird is THAT!?
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
franq 6/30/2023 6:01:16 AM (No. 1502508)
Unless they remove "Race" and "Sex" check boxes from the application (though name would still be a strong clue), I don't know how this will be enforced.
4 people like this.
Reply 27 - Posted by:
Clinger 6/30/2023 7:52:13 AM (No. 1502563)
Affirmative action is by definition the elusive systemic racism.
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Reply 28 - Posted by:
Dodge Boy 6/30/2023 8:32:24 AM (No. 1502601)
Good. But why is it still allowed at the vice president level.
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Reply 29 - Posted by:
planetgeo 6/30/2023 8:46:42 AM (No. 1502627)
The definitive comment on this matter was made by this headline in the satirical Babylon Bee:
"Awkward: Supreme Court Rules Against Affirmative Action With Affirmative Action Hire Sitting Right There"
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Reply 30 - Posted by:
MickTurn 6/30/2023 9:06:12 AM (No. 1502648)
Leftist Universities have turned into Indoctrination Mills, nothing more.
Time to cut them off from ALL Student Loans and confiscate their Endowments to pay for their Crimes!
5 people like this.
Reply 31 - Posted by:
Krause 6/30/2023 9:25:55 AM (No. 1502673)
Lefty Justices throwing MLK and his "I Have a Dream" under the bus.
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Reply 32 - Posted by:
Zigrid 6/30/2023 10:45:51 AM (No. 1502757)
Colleges will do as they please at the end of the day....but...they are not stupid...at least I don't think they are...in order to stay competitive they must have a high ranking to attract high scorers...so they will fudge the entrance as they see fit...at least Asian students have a better shot at the top spots now....when I go to the doctor...I want one that scores top of his class...not the bottom...but Harvard is playing a dangerous game with the professor staffing...if deblasio of new York fame and mayor slow foot of Chicago are on their teaching staff...that says a lot about their status....
6 people like this.
Reply 33 - Posted by:
Lawsy0 6/30/2023 11:21:25 AM (No. 1502804)
Bided declared up front that he would ONLY hire according to Affirmative Action. If someone is silly enough to think that wasn't the case, do a quick review of the pre-election rhetoric if you can stomach it. C'mon man!
2 people like this.
Reply 34 - Posted by:
Mcscow sailor 6/30/2023 11:27:44 AM (No. 1502815)
The constitutional republic strike back!
3 people like this.
Reply 35 - Posted by:
zuker5 6/30/2023 3:23:42 PM (No. 1503024)
Right here is why the GOP establishment hates Trump so much. His 1 term has led to successful outcomes in two major cultural issues that Republicans have been claiming to be fighting for but, have not only not achieved any results, but have actually been badly losing to Democrats. Trump showed us, unequivocally, that the Republican establishment doesn’t care one whit about the things that Republican voters do. No, Trump’s not a good guy, but our “good guys” are really only good for Democrats.
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Reply 36 - Posted by:
oldmagnolia 6/30/2023 5:40:27 PM (No. 1503132)
Affirmative Action Translation: you are stupid but we are going to accept you anyway.
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