Are you sure? Their policies admitted the top 10% of each high schools’ graduating class. Ar you sure someone at 11% from Whitey Preparatory School is not more qualified than the person right at the 10% level at Crapass Ghetto High School.
Sure Fisher’s qualifications were pretty low for the standards of admissions, but can you guaranty that EVERY OTHER STUDENT (black or white) admitted by being in the top 10% of their graduating class was more qualified than she?
If it benefits all, it needs to also benefit the student in question.
The real issue I have is this idea that diversity of ethnic backgrounds is the goal, instead of diversity of opinion. Don’t worry about the color of their skin. Just get diverse ideas represented.
You know, I had not previously given much thought to the idea that admitting top 10% grads, while race-neutral on its face, might actually be impermissible because it fails to reflect and perpetuate the racial inequalities Texas has so carefully built into its primary and secondary education. Now that you have raised the issue, and I have considered it, I find I must vomit.
And, Fisher was not top 10%. She was second-tier in-state, and judged alongside those folks, and promoting racial diversity was considered along with a bunch of other factors, like the ability to ride a unicycle or do card tricks or be something other than a child encased in a cocoon of entitlement.
And that is why this case was a horrible one to bring to SCOTUS. Fisher was nothing special and she didn’t get into UT and her case boiled down to some blacks must have gotten in who did worse in high school according to her arbitrary criteria.
The ridiculousness of Fisher’s position is that for universities, “qualified” is such a subjective term. No matter the quality of the school, scoring in the top 10% means you took whatever resources were available and excelled. What makes a student with a 2.0 GPA, 850 SAT gualified? That they’re a great quarterback. You do school basketball and I am a youth pastor - how do you compare which extracurricular activity makes us more qualified.
The case that SHOULD have been brought to SCOTUS was a student just outside the 10% cutoff with a 4.3 weighted GPA, 1480 SAT, all AP classes, in sports, clubs and outside activities with glowing letters of recommendation from teachers and community leaders not getting in but D-Money with a 2.6 GPA, 1100 SAT and a lot fewer extracurricular activities getting in because he’s African-American.
Sorry, don’t remember the plaintiff’s name involved in the D-Money case, governor LePage. What was it again?
No, it was quite obvious. That’s why so many excuses were made for it. They went to all that trouble of coming up with reasons why it was “just” or “necessary” because it was so obviously wrong, but they wanted to do it anyway.
You are indulging in the common apologist fallacy of trying to pretend that the practices of hypocrisy and of doing obviously evil things out of motives like greed are something that was only invented recently. The people of the past were neither innocents nor idiots.
Did that actually happen?
George Mason University just renamed its law school the Antonin Scalia School of Law. The unfortunate acronym soon was noticed.