SCOTUS Hears Case That Could Kill College Affirmative Action (generation, lawyers, school)
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Opponents of affirmative action in college admissions are hoping they can cripple the positive discrimination measure — if not outright kill it — when the Supreme Court takes up the issue Wednesday.
The University of Texas at Austin says students learn better when there's diversity on campus and within racial groups. But lawyers for a woman who was denied admission to the school say that's too vague a standard to justify distinctions based on race.
"The very fact that this conservative Supreme Court reviews every decision upholding the program leads you to believe that the justices are very skeptical, and limitations on affirmative action are coming," says Tom Goldstein, publisher of SCOTUSblog and a Washington, D.C., lawyer who argues before the court.
I wondered why they kicked it back to the lower courts the first time? Was it to much of a hotbed issue?
Would it have proved the government now tries to make us all equal, by not providing everyone the same thing equally.
Which is not what government is there to do.
Secure freedom and Liberty.
Protect that freedom & Liberty.
For the last 145 years they the federal and state governments, have done nothing but slowly erode Freedoms, and most definitely loss of our Liberties
I can't wait until College Affirmative Action is eliminated and Asians make up 70% of the Ivy League schools or Ivy quality schools(MIT/Stanford). If anything, AA has only helped white students have a higher percentage in the elite colleges.
There is no such thing "positive discrimination". Behind every black that was accepted solely based on his race there is a white that was denied, also solely based on his race. This is hardcore racial discrimination.
I can't wait until College Affirmative Action is eliminated and Asians make up 70% of the Ivy League schools or Ivy quality schools(MIT/Stanford). If anything, AA has only helped white students have a higher percentage in the elite colleges.
If Asians are smarter and more hardworking, let them have even 100%, if it's based on their grades and results.
If Asians are smarter and more hardworking, let them have even 100%, if it's based on their grades and results.
No way white people let them do that. These schools are historically WASP. They're not going to lose that to a bunch of Asians, particularly ones who are foreigners and are only here for school before heading back to their home country.
There is no such thing "positive discrimination". Behind every black that was accepted solely based on his race there is a white that was denied, also solely based on his race. This is hardcore racial discrimination.
No way white people let them do that. These schools are historically WASP. They're not going to lose that to a bunch of Asians, particularly ones who are foreigners and are only here for school before heading back to their home country.
Then they change the admissions criteria weighting. Points for years in the US. Points for just about anything other than race. They are private colleges. Don't be surprised if they go the route of private clubs and require membership in Club Harvard or Club Yale. The liberal elite don't mind discrimination. They just want to be wholey in charge of the process without the pesky government intervening.
Affirmative Action was needed for a generation but now, it's ridiculous. Why do my neighbors kids (Father is a surgeon) get huge preference compared to my kids just because the Father is black?
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