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
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.