Headline from 6/30/23:
“Supreme Court Rules That Affirmative Action In College Admissions Is Unconstitutional”
This story about AA was big news as it even made it to the front page of my local “newspaper.”
In an opinion written by Chief Justice Roberts, the Supreme Court completely overturned its previous decision in Grutter v. Bollinger and struck down affirmative action in colleges and universities. In the 6-3 decision, the Court held that ‘affirmative action’ is unconstitutional because it violates the equal protection clause of the 14th amendment.
The Court, noting that race-based admissions at Harvard led to a greater than -11% decline in the number of Asian American students admitted, explained that general invocations of fuzzy buzzwords like “increasing diversity” are no longer enough to carry the day:
Many who study the Constitution were not surprised by this ruling. However what was surprising to me, and I dare say was not surprising to many, were some of the responses to this ruling.
From C&C:
Responding to the Court’s decision, former Biden staffer Erica Marsh, pictured below, angrily tweeted a very unfortunate hot take, which will go down in the history of dumbest things ever said by democrats:
Let’s be clear what this airhead said:
“no Black person will be able to succeed in a merit based system …”
Indeed this is one of the most racist statements that I have ever heard!
However, according to her Twitter account she is a “proud Democrat”living in the D.C.area. Likewise on Twitter she apologized and. said that her statement “didn’t effectively convey her intended message.”
(At the time of writing this article, the tweet had amassed over 13 million views and over 7000 likes. Many believe that the account is not real. Twitter user @leahmcelrath claimed that the avatar used in the account was “AI generated.”
In other words when a Democrat says something really dumb, figure out a way to blame Republicans!)
Similarly, Congresswoman AOC has called for Supreme COurt Justice, Clarence Thomas, to RESIGN.
MSNBC was close to apoplexy. On MSNBC, Catherine Christian essentially stated that blacks are not smart enough to succeed without AA helping them into careers.
And these headlines about the Affirmative Action headline just go on and on!
7/1/23
California Contrarian