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There is much weeping and gnashing of teeth because the Supreme Court ruled 6-3 against “affirmative action.” Justices Elena Kagan, Sonia Sotomayor, and Kentanji Brown Jackson dissented. The objection by the latter two justices is not surprising. It’s hard to believe they would be Supreme Court justices, judges, or perhaps even lawyers were it not for affirmative action.
Justice Jackson’s middling intellect was evident in her dissent.
Gulf-sized race-based gaps exist with respect to the health, wealth, and well-being of American citizens. They were created in the distant past, but have indisputably been passed down to the present day through the generations. Every moment these gaps persist is a moment in which this great country falls short of actualizing one of its foundational principles — the “self-evident” truth that all of us are created equal.
Of course, that is the problem. Racial gaps exist because the races do not perform equally. Justice Jackson appeals to Thomas Jefferson’s words but forgets that Jefferson himself thought blacks and whites could not and should not live under the same government.
Justice Jackson argues that “our nation has never been colorblind.” White advocates would agree. It was our misguided attempt to be colorblind that has led us to ruin. Obviously, this isn’t what she objects to. Instead, she argues that schools must confront inequality, which is transferred through generations. The fight for egalitarianism is “to the benefit of us all.” Why this is so remains unexplained.
The majority disagreed with Justice Jackson. Yet her reasoning is important. Race realism is necessary because one must have an explanation for inequality besides “discrimination.” The Court is right that the law mandates equal treatment and no racial discrimination, but this will not lead to equality. If we define racial equality as “no racial gaps,” it is an impossible goal. Indeed, if we accept Justice Jackson’s logic at face value, we must conclude that America is (and has always been) institutionally biased in favor of Asians at the expense of whites.
Justice Thomas, in a concurring opinion, forcefully argued for the “colorblind constitution” and the promise of the Fourteenth Amendment. In contrast to Justice Jackson, who wrote what is essentially a diary entry about her feelings, Justice Thomas drew on history and precedent to make his case. Though he made the occasional rhetorical flourish in favor of racial equality, he fundamentally argued about what the law says, rather than what it should say. “We cannot be guided by those who would desire less in our Constitution, or by those who would desire more,” he said.
However, there is a major problem with today’s decision. The Supreme Court left open a big loophole in its ruling, which ensures affirmative action will probably persist. There might be no substantive changes at all. Chief Justice John Roberts, who has a long history of seeking compromise and defanging conservative rulings, included this in his decision: “Nothing in this opinion should be construed as prohibiting universities from considering an applicant’s discussion of how race affected his or her life, be it through discrimination, inspiration, or otherwise.”
The New York Times, in its breaking news coverage, says:
Minhal Nazeer, 17, a high school student in Louisville, Ky., who will be applying to colleges including Harvard and U.N.C. in the fall, said she would take advantage of the application essay to discuss her South Asian identity, something that Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. said universities could consider as long as they did not use it to replicate the current system of affirmative action. “I will be talking about my race in my applications to schools,” Nazeer said. “And I hope they recognize that as an integral part of my identity.”
Obviously, no white person would do such a thing, unless it was part of a self-flagellation ritual. A university recognizing a white person’s race as an “integral part” of his identity would not help.
Elite colleges and universities have already been eliminating standardized test scores and other metrics that allow relatively objective analysis of applicants. Instead, they are increasingly embracing subjective and frankly juvenile exercises that allow them to admit underqualified non-whites with progressive political views. Now, this trend will intensify.
What is really at stake is the way these new subjective metrics are interpreted. It would be instructive to see if a white student who wrote about his white identity would be punished. Of course, in today’s climate, it would take an extraordinarily courageous white student, a principled lawyer, and a judge who actually believes in the rule of law to examine anti-white discrimination truly. These may be in short supply.
Today was a victory, but a limited one. Stephen Miller of America First Legal probably had the best takeaway. He posted a tweet asking for those who are hurt by racial preferences to contact him. Let’s hope others will follow suit.
This was not an end, but a beginning. The legal actions are just a first step; they will not be enough. In fact, we will probably see universities become more explicitly anti-white as they shift admissions standards around political tests rather than academic credentials. Smart whites will continue to be discriminated against. More than ever, we need white identity politics, a defense of race realism, and a movement dedicated to championing the collective interests and self-determination of white people.
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Excellent synopsis. Colleges will find ways around the recent ruling, such as holistic evaluations.
A much better ruling would have said the only requirement for admission is merit.
Colleges will continue to try and discriminate against Whites and Asians. But they will then open themselves up to lawsuits, that they will lose. Like Oberlin losing millions to the bakery they defamed, colleges won’t want to make those payments. The owners of America probably also saw that this was the kind of thing suburban and affluent Whites notice, little Johnny getting straight A’s and high SAT scored and losing out to a numbskull black kid. Throw these Whites a bone and they’ll continue to pretend not to notice how much Whites pay to carry the lower races.
What will Harvard do?
According to Ron Unz, at Harvard, the percentage of non-Jewish Whites is only single digits. Will they replace the remaining few Whites with Asians?
It seems like they’ve got to make room for more Asians, but of course, they don’t want to reduce any of the other groups.
If they were to cut non-Jewish Whites to zero, would anyone even notice?
They would probably just classify non-religious Jews as being White, so that don’t have to report a 0% enrollment for Whites. Yet, Jewish groups could be mad, if they see their numbers dropping.
Agree that this is only a partial victory, but one nonetheless. Roberts is and always has been a piece of shit moderate liberal. Merit should be the only factor. This will not end discrimination against Whites. Expect more lawsuits in the future.
Aren’t non-religious Jews already just counted as white at Harvard and every university? Wasn’t that the problem for Unz in terms of trying to actually count the true ethnic Jewish population of Harvard?
John Roberts is the sorriest excuse for a White supreme court justice in history. May Bush the younger fry in hell for nominating him.
In history? That’s some tough competition. But he certainly ranks toward the top.
Nope. The cult can keep them.
With all of the grade inflation, which has only been getting worse, getting straight A’s ain’t what it used to be.
What cannot go on won’t.
Benefits for retards is a luxury item.
The bankrupt federales can’t pay for this.
The system will simply unravel.
The petrodollars are going away.
The swamp is about to burn down.
The feral pests that they have fed.
They will destroy the swamp
I agree, but the explanation isn’t that blacks are stupid. It’s that blacks in America have decided that learning and doing well in school is “acting white,” and they don’t want to do that, so they don’t learn anything. Here is a video of blacks being asked to name some countries in Africa, and they can’t do it:
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It doesn’t take a lot of brains to learn the names of a country or two in Africa and to learn where they are on the map. It’s a matter of desire. And no matter how much racism there supposedly is in America, blacks have access to libraries and the Internet and can learn about Africa. And one would think they would want to learn about Africa, but learning anything is “acting white,” so they won’t do it.
Unfortunately, our elites refuse to accept this explanation because talking about racism gives them power, so they will call anyone racist who refuses to accept their explanation.
It doesn’t take a lot of brains to learn the names of a country or two in Africa and to learn where they are on the map.
I’m surprised they didn’t all name Egypt. Dey be ‘Gyptians ‘n’ shit.
Agree.
You can use the percentages provided by the Hillel at each school to estimate the Jewish populations. Harvard and Yale Hillels have excluded secular Jewish students in their counts since Unz brought a lot of attention to the issue. The total number of Jewish students is going to be about double the number of religious Jewish students. The rest of the schools’ Hillels still seem to count all Jewish students.
How the West went from Imperialism to Imporialism(or importing the troubles of the world into one’s own country).
France fought a long bitter bloody war in Algeria. Things got so bad that the French finally decided to leave. After a traumatic experience like that, one would think the French would just mind their own business and keep France a nice country. Instead, they decided to IMPORT Algeria(and other African countries) into France itself.
It’s like leaving Jack’s place because Jack threatened you and then inviting Jack to leave in your place. How more retarded can you get?
End imperialism in Algeria but then do ‘imporialism’ of Algeria into France.
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When the Algerians committed violence on the French in Algeria, it was seen as resisting foreign rule and reclaiming sovereignty. But when North Africans attack Frenchmen in France, what is that? Oh yeah, Jews persuaded the French that it’s ‘racist’ to say France belongs to the French. (Then, why did hte French come around to believing Algeria belongs to Algerians?)
Just what have 18-year-olds, other than a few noble Scouts, “merited”?
For most of the 20th century, schools looked for aptitude. How anyone could confuse this with merit is curious. It’s like praising Yao Ming for his height. It’s not something he worked for or in any way earned.
That’s exactly what will happen. Even White legacies will get squeezed out because you can bet that Harvard will move heaven and earth to keep the byepock percentage the same. And they sure as hell won’t keep out any prospective jewish students. So that leaves only one option: stop admitting Whites. And conservatives will cheer this as a victory, because to them having access to elite institutions is a waste of time and makes you a dumb libturd.
You can say that about any merit. You are influenced by circumstances too, of course, but how you respond to those circumstances owes entirely to inherited traits.
My two takeaways from the cases:
-Obviously schools are going to look for ways around the decision. The court should have established a test of compliance. If schools want to use some woo woo holistic admissions system, fine. But if the racial demographics of admits is consistently out of line with what admission based only on test scores would have produced, then they are not in compliance with the law. Though, some schools no longer require applicants to submit SAT/ACT scores, we might still be able to use the racial breakdown of standardized test scores as a reference. i.e. If University of such and such state historically accepts a student body that averages around the top 10%, the racial mix of their student body should look like the top 10% of test takers.
-Ivy League schools granting of some (however slight) official preference to legacy applicants is more traditionalist minded than any policy the GOP/conservatism, inc has ever put forward in my lifetime. I say this not to praise those crazed far-left institutions, but to damn mainstream conservative ideology.
I use the term as does one’s ability merit admittance to college.
Substitute ability or capacity if you prefer something else to the term merit. As in the ability/capacity to function at the university level, the ability to benefit from a college education.
But still one worth winning. You can’t expect SCOTUS to take you to the finish line. You still have to finish the race yourself.
He can go more granular, and speak to his family, ancestral history, and personal story. He can throw in that his grandfather fought in WWII, freed prisoners in Treblinka and Aushwitz, and his favorite foods include bagels and Matzah balls, and his uncle is black, his aunt is Jewish, and he’s fascinated by the courage of both.
It IS a win if it leads to white racial consciousness. One thing is for sure, they aren’t going to reverse course. The days when a Marine who grew up on his Uncle’s farm in Southern Indiana, joined the Marines on his 17th birthday, served on Guadalcanal and Peleliu, and then went to Yale because of his test scores. Those days are long gone and they are never coming back.
In the 80s my sister could get into Harvard and Princeton (but not Yale).
In the 90s I could get into the University of Chicago, but tuition was considered too high
In the 00s my little brother when to a mid-tier school for undergraduate, and he’s by far the most successful.
When all whites understand that the Ivy Leagues are nothing but a gang of Jews, chinese, hindus and assorted racial minorities who are taught to hate white people, their days will be numbered, and their complete razing to the ground will only be a matter of time.
France imported toruble the way Mali Chad Niger CAR and Congo brought troubles and saw their societies pushed to destructions.
This ruling is about Chinese versus other groups. You might see some relaxing of quotas for Chinese as a result. I doubt this will help non privileged white groups. In fact, given that those fairly won Chinese positions have to come from somewhere in a zero game, they will come from the vanishing share allotted to fly over country American whites. It will be another crank in the vice that’s squeezing us between Chinese and privileged white groups from above and privileged minority groups from below. I think it will be a net loss for whites. Zman said it well: “this is a fight between diverse people about how to cut up the cake.”
In fact, that’s probably the true content of the racial experience in essay quip. Underperforming groups can still be recognized but Chinese cannot be discriminated against! That’s it.