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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If it’s just about admissions you’re largely right. But even colleges that aren’t selective in admissions can often be selective in hiring. In many fields you can get 100 applications for a TT job. And there’s a certain type of guilty white liberal who just LOVES certain applicants’ diversity statements, thinks that certain applicants are just AMAZING even though they’ve published less and taught less than most other applicants. And of course the administrators really want us to hire those Diverse applicants.
This ruling has implications for how they might rule if those hiring practices are ever challenged.
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“zero problem in the US with getting accepted to college”
For prospective students the US has the most open and flexible higher education system in the world and it’s not even close…. If you can’t get a good education from it then the problem is you and not any admissions decision anywhere.
If your caught up in status vvhoring and influence peddling and absolutely have to get into Status VVhore U then that’s a whole different question… that should not be confused with education.
A lot of this hysteria is fueld by parents who just don’t know how the system works for various reasons and imagine if their precious snowflake doesn’t get into Ye Olde Connexion College then they’re failures.
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That’s exactly what I’m saying! There’s no problem with getting admitted to college in this country. We are fixating on the petty grievances of the rich and not paying attention to our own problems.
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This case about a Christian postal worker getting comparatively little attention
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I see your point but this fight is worth having. Take a look at the law profession. Who gets supreme court clerkships in law school? Ivy law school students. Who then get federal appointments as judges for life? Supreme court judges?The same students. I’ve been reading about the craziness that’s been happening in this profession and the eventual reign of this “elite” is going to be so brutal I can’t even imagine.
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We’re not just talking about who gets to major in basketweaving studies at Harvard. We’re talking about who gets to be the DA who decides whether to charge a veteran for restraining a career criminal on a subway train with murder (a small example) to who gets to be the sitting supreme court judge who casts his vote on a government jailing a presidential candidate from the opposite party because they’re afraid he’ll win. For some things the stakes are very high.
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Ah, Stringer Bell, sometimes I agree with everything that you say.
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You’ll find that we agree on most things now. Except I’m a maga republican now and from what I remember you’re a chamber of commerce Paul Ryan/Mitch McConnell republican. I don’t post much here anymore so let me take this opportunity to apologize to you for lobbing all those racism jibes at you. Even if it was justified at the time, whining about racism online is just low T energy that I’m happy to have shed.
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What was the turning point for you that decisively took you away from leftism? Was there a peak left moment for you?
I went through this process myself, and I’m interested in how it went for other people.
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I think it was the behavior of teachers unions during Covid and of course the woke team Bernie assembled in 2020 primaries that took in half a BILLION dollars of working class people money and turned in worse results than they did in 2016.
Also, the state of the left in 2023: if you say you are market friendly, even capitalist, they won’t throw you out. But if you don’t subscribe to black and trans worship, you’re persona non grata. Which means, this is what “socialism” and the “left” is now and I want no part of it.
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https://twitter.com/aimeeterese/status/1674608878858936321?s=20
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Good point. But for now these schools will continue to teach wokeness irrespective of who gets admitted. We need to collectively peak on this crap as a society. I’m sure it will happen but probably not soon.
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Appointments at the top have a habit of trickling down. You don’t want to end up in a place where you have to defend merit based hiring against the diversity quotas.
https://businesstech.co.za/news/government/699807/government-signs-major-bee-settlement-this-is-what-it-says/
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That already does exist at my university, unfortunately. We are constantly persecuted for not hiring enough black professors. The argument that we literally get zero applications from black candidates makes no impression. All black candidates are snapped up by more prestigious, better-paying colleges.
But these explanations have no effect. The reigning philosophy is that not having black people in equal numbers as whites in any endeavor can only be occasioned by racism. The fact that black people are only 12% in the population has zero effect on this reasoning.
Yes, this is absolutely insane but see my latest post on American urotherapy for an explanation.
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While I see where you are coming from on this issue, I think you are misguided in your conclusions.
You went to Yale and I went to a place on the River Cam: I take it that both you and I were accepted because we were the best qualified applicants.
What if – in the light of this bullshit affirmative action – you and I had been denied places in favour of another candidate who was significantly worse placed than us in terms of academic qualifications and intellectual achievement but who had a higher content of melanin in his complexion?
It probably would not have been a catastrophe in my life on a personal level, but that is by the by: in the academic field, as in other competitive areas of endeavour, talent must be recognised and affirmed: this is what happens in sport for example. If you start discounting it, the whole social system will rot away, as everybody can see is happening in the US, Canada, the UK and other Anglo-sphere countries.
Moreover, as reader Stringer Bell noted above, the cascading effects of such policies and the complex ramifications arising therefrom already have considerable impact on society as a whole in myriad ways. One or two examples will suffice: Supreme Court judge Ketanji Brown Jackson does not have the intellectual calibre of the average SCOTUS judge, and it is rather obvious that she would not have been accepted into Harvard except for her other evident characteristics. Mr Barack Obama is another example of “positive discrimination” in action, and he went one better than Brown Jackson: he was awarded a Nobel Peace Prize for no other reason than the evident one, no questions asked.
Who’s going to shout that The Emperor Has No Clothes On? Everybody knows it, apart from bleeding-heart, virtue-signalling liberals and leftists. There is no point in knowing the truth if you do not proclaim it aloud.
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Ketanji Brown Jackson, by education, legal scholarship, real life judicial experience, and all objective standards, is more qualified, than Amy Coney Barrett. Nobody but the dyed-in-the-wool Trumpist denies this.
Failing to acknowledge this here is enough to understand the type of thinking behind many of the comments on this blog, and it’s sickening.
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