The only silver lining I see in this #SupremeCourt decision on #admissions in #HigherEducation: that it will rock the boat in ways the #Right does not expect, just as overturning #Roe did. This is a different time. We have had a Black President. #PeopleOfColor are ascendant and powerful. The root of this issue is #education. #WhiteSupremacists got where they are by draining resources from #schools in a zero-sum game. This is what needs to be reversed.
In case you couldn’t tell, I’m pissed off. 🤬
@Pattyagray Why? Isn't it a good thing that we're not factoring race when it comes to admissions?
As a black person, I'm not all too sure that racism is a good thing, especially when institutionalized, and #SCOTUS seems to largely agree (with the exception of #JohnRoberts when it comes to the military for some reason, as you dutifully pointed out)
The Roberts exception is the tell-all. THAT’S what I am most pissed off about. The majority did not make this ruling because they think non-White non-Asian people can do just fine in their own, they made it because they are sure the old elite discrimination system will roar back to life and make their precious elite institutions White again.
@Pattyagray I am not quite sure if I agree. Did most of #SCOTUS say that they agreed with #JohnRoberts' statement about discrimination in the military specifically?
Read directly from the ruling.
SO many people on this platform are mischaracterizing what the ruling actually said.
https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/22pdf/20-1199_hgdj.pdf
Yep.
Unfortunately, there is no alternative to reading things for oneself these days, since there is misinformation left and right.
Volkris, can you be specific about how you see my comments as a mischaracterization?
More to the point, however, is that I am not commenting on the text, but on the context. Reasonable words can have unreasonable impacts. The words are not going out in a void; there is a huge historical, social, cultural, and political context surrounding this decision.
I wasn't referring to you specifically, but then I think your comment may have illustrated what I was saying pretty well :)
When someone's talking about context they're not talking about what the ruling actually said.
A lot of people do confuse those two, often saying they're talking about the ruling when they're really talking about their idea of context, speculation about what they think the ruling *means* while presenting that as what the ruling *says*.
It's the whole analysis vs factual reporting contrast.
@realcaseyrollins
And part of the context is Supreme Court precedent. Just as with Roe, a very long-standing precedent is being overturned here. It is destabilizing. But that is what I meant about the “silver lining”: overturning precedent forces the politicalmsocietyntondevise more sturdy solutions to the problems being created by the overturning of court precedent.
Exactly!
We talk about legal durability, things that can be counted on, that won't be subject to the whims of a judge.
And so, if we want affirmative action to be durable, to be stable, then it needs to be sanctioned in law, same as with abortion issues.
So long as these issues are left up to judicial discretion we go year after year waiting to see if a judge is going to change their mind.
This is a matter for the legislative branch. SCOTUS here has removed its finger from the scale, giving us a great opportunity to have our democratic process resolve the matter.
@volkris @Pattyagray I frankly don't like #AffirmativeAction. I like that #SCOTUS struck it down.
But maybe you're right in that there are demons in the details that I must look in the eye.
In any case: *totally* agree with and support your admonition to read first-hand.
By the way, when you are reading, don’t forget to include the written dissents from this opinion:
Ketanji Brown Jackson, wrote in her dissent that “it would be deeply unfortunate if the Equal Protection Clause actually demanded this perverse, ahistorical, and counterproductive outcome.”
@volkris @Pattyagray This seems a bit long in the tooth.
I am at work rn.