This week I thought it would be useful to talk about the Supreme Court case regarding affirmative action in college admissions. As I pointed out on Gab and Twitter, the ruling is a big nothing burger when you read it. Schools cannot come right out and say they are not taking Whites or Asians, but they can still discriminate to their heart’s desire as long as they frame as a character evaluation.
Judge Roberts wrote, “nothing prohibits universities from considering an applicant’s discussion of how race affected the applicant’s life, so long as that discussion is concretely tied to a quality of character or unique ability that the particular applicant can contribute to the university.” Colleges will no doubt read this as a license to go crazy with their antiwhite agendas.
I did not cover this in the show, but this case is a good reminder that words on paper will never constrain a ruling class. The letter of the law means nothing to people who have no respect for the spirit of the law. Right now, our ruling class has no respect for the rules that are supposed to govern Western societies. No amount of ink spilling will cause them to change their minds about it.
Another thing worth mentioning that I did not cover in the show is the implied cowardice in these cases. When the Left had the whip hand on the court, they rammed through as much as they could as fast as they could. When the Right has control of the courts it is nothing but baby steps and concessions to the Left. This recent case was a chance to roll back a lot of horrible ideas, but they cucked.
This removes the last argument for voting Republican. We know that when they have control of Congress they will fink on their voters. When they have control of the White House, they will appoint people like John Roberts to the bench. Even with a stacked court the people who vote Republican cannot expect to get anything for their support, so what is the point of voting for a Republican?
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This Week’s Show
Contents
- The Cases
- The History
- The Logic of Affirmative Action
- Civil Rights Legislation
- Four Ways To Manage A Diverse Society
- Hard Segregation
- Soft Segregation
- Proportionalism
- Free Association
- The Problem With These Cases
- Conclusion
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this case is a good reminder that words on paper will never constrain a ruling class. The letter of the law means nothing to people who have no respect for the spirit of the law.
This is the crux of the problem in multicultural America.
Most of the legacy cultures of America conceive of the law broadly as a set of rules that should be abided willingly as the consensus of community norms. Other more recently added cultures see the law as narrow boundaries that should be pushed. Still other recent add ons see the law as an illegitimate imposition that should be ignored and flouted as much as possible.
All three conceptions work to some degree when they are the cultural norm in the home country of “those people”. But mashing them all together under one legal regime doesn’t work – can’t work.
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“But despite the dissent’s assertion to the contrary, universities may not simply establish through application essays or other means the regime we hold unlawful today. (A dissenting opinion is generally not the best source of legal advice on how to comply with a majority opinion.)”
That’s from Roberts’ majority opinion. Sure he could flake, but it sounds like the court will give a fair hearing to applicants being discriminated against for being white. The white Starbucks lady just got a $25 million settlement for being unjustly fired on account of her race. The court ruling opens the door for similar lawsuits against universities.
Politics is slow, but this IS a victory for the country, and it’s due to the GOP
Affirmative action got its SCOTUS imprimatur in Kaiser Aluminum v. Weber (1978) in which Justice Brennan (with Douglas) of the emanations and penumbras found Constitutional grounds for the majority validly discriminating against itself. Since that time, the primary beneficiaries of affirmative action have been liberal/progressive white women.
Having been told, in the 80’s, explicitly to my face and with relish, that “white males need not apply,” I found an adjunct position, at a community college, teaching a course in — of all things — Con Law! Even then white male faculty were being paid less than their female and minority counterparts, righting the multi-generational ship of supply and demand on the backs of a single generation, though, officially, it was the “seventy cents on the male dollar.”
The roots “social justice” go back to these days when individuals sank beneath the waves of progressive politics and, like Venus on the half shell, identities emerged as the relevant, Constitutional units for rewarding Fourteenth Amendment rights.
My alma mater is laughing today. “Mr. Roberts has made his decision. Now let him enforce it.”