A crucial supreme Court Ruling on Affirmative Action could come tomorrow, as colleges and universities grapple with the possibility that race might no longer be a factor in admissions. The Central Question being decided this time is should Affirmative Action continue forever In The Name Of diversity, and are the gains achieved worth the harms allegedly inflicted on Asian American students . This is the most important civil Rights Case of our era. I dont think its an overstatement to say theyre freaking out right now. One admissions official told me, some colleges are so worried about being sued in the wake of this decision that theyre thinking about scrubbing racial and ethnic data from their websites. There has to be some discrimination here. There has to be something against Asian Americans specifically. This case is going to be something more than just about admissions. The notion that noticing race is per se unconstitutional could be devastating for a number of areas of the law. An
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protection clause. and it turns out, this is a cause for celebration for the vast majority of americans. who agree with the supreme court wrote quote limited english discrimination means eliminating all of it. it cannot mean one thing when applied to one individual and something else when applied to a person of another color. abc poll reveals 52 percent of americans, agree with the decision to overturn race-based missions. but sadly, this did not go over well with many democrats. new york congressman jamaal bowman says the court is illegitimate. and they are there to serve white supremacy and white patriarchy. the supreme court is here to serve oligarchs. they re here to serve billionaires come here to serve corporations, here to serve white supremacy and white patriarchy, and nativism. they want to take away our civil rights, they want to take away our voting rights, human rights, women s rights, they want to make our country more dangerous by spending concealed carry perm
that aside, it s as emphatic anm definitive as conservatives hoped and progressives feared. it s the way that the 14th amendment was color blind, jackson and others, nonsense., look at what the 14th amendment achieved. brown versust board of educati, likewise. nonsense says the dissent. it was race sensitive. the 14th amendment must be race sensitive. then there s this world s worl viewpoint, there they are like t ships passing in the night. one side says, look at the worlt today and whathe needs to be do. the conservatives, the law of the land, say ending discrimination means ending all discrimination, period, paragraph, end of story. yes, there will be a tiny little wormhole that people will push h on. the basic thrust of what the majority has done it s as emphatic as the dobbs opinion last year is to really have a revolution in the meaning of thl constitution and socially permissible ends as a result. laura, for a long time, quotas have been not permitted. sinc
[crowd murmuring] - a crucial supreme court ruling on affirmative action could come tomorrow, as colleges and universities grapple with the possibility that race might no longer be a factor in admissions. - the central question being decided this time: is should affirmative action continue forever in the name of diversity, and are the gains achieved worth the harms allegedly inflicted on asian american students? this is the most important civil rights case of our era. i don t think it s an overstatement to say they re freaking out right now. one admissions official told me, some colleges are so worried about being sued in the wake of this decision that they re thinking about scrubbing racial and ethnic data from their websites. there has to be some discrimination here. there has to be something against asian americans specifically. this case is going to be something more than just about admissions. the notion that noticing race is per se unconstitutional could be devastating