Here’s a perfect example of oblivious navel-gazing:
The Court’s decision in Students for Fair Admissions, Inc. v. President and Fellows of Harvard College is the anti-Dobbs… striking down racially conscious college admissions puts an end to the wildly unpopular policy of affirmative action. … If we take the polling on affirmative action at face value, progressives are popularizing an argument for racial discrimination that is anathema to most Americans. The voting public doesn’t like racial discrimination. They do not believe the remedy for discrimination in the past is discrimination today.
https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/the-supreme-courts-affirmative-action-decision-is-the-anti-dobbs/
This is the emperor of non-issues. The most ridiculous, contrived, moronic subject in existence.
Do you know the acceptance rate of my university?
It’s officially 98,8%.
This means everybody is accepted. We don’t have and will never afford to have racially conscious or even basic-literacy-conscious admissions. We are at the point of no longer checking the applicants’ vitals for signs of life.
And guess what? That’s everybody. There’s zero problem in the US with getting accepted to college. There’s no hurdle. No barrier. Anybody can go.
Today’s SCOTUS decision is relevant to a tiny ultra-entitled elite that has the gigantic sums of money needed to pay tuition at Harvard and is obsessed with status. What do their concerns have to do with us? How does it help us if these people’s kids go to a slightly more or slightly less prestigious college?
We are being endlessly told that we need to care about the tedious dramas of these spoiled brats. And we keep buying into it. People sincerely don’t know that there is no affirmative action in college admissions almost anywhere because nobody can afford to turn any students away.
“Polling on affirmative action” sounds like a nasty joke. Where’s polling on how people feel about the endless budget cuts at the local public college where their kids will actually go and pay a lot more in tuition? Where’s polling on shit that does affect our lives?
“Ooh, look at this poor Chinese boy who got perfect SATs but wasn’t accepted to Harvard because he’s too Chinese! Let’s all pearl-clutch about the absolute tragedy of this guy going to another fancy college instead of this fancy college. He might even end up at a slightly less fancy college than he thinks he deserves. A fraction of fanciness he deserves might pass him by. What horror!”
These “let them eat cake” aristos are pissing in our faces and we are too far gone even to just turn away. There are some poor clods right now feeling vindicated by this ruling when the people who fight on both sides of it despise them too much to ever breathe the same air with them.
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