Comments on: SCOTUS says no to affirmative action

By: AesopFan

AesopFan — Sat, 01 Jul 2023 01:46:27 +0000

@ TJ on June 29, 2023 at 8:46 pm said:
Here’s Thomas Sowell in “Commentary” in 1989: “ ‘Affirmative Action’: A Worldwide Disaster”

I just finished reading that essay (it’s very long), and Sowell successfully (IMO) rebuts every one of the dissenters’ “arguments” – if his evidence and analysis had been considered by prior courts, we would have been set on the correct path to lifting up minority students 40 years ago.

Pay particular attention the the later sections where he explains WHY the activists agitating for “social justice” are actually sabotaging every possible way to actually achieve what they claim are their objectives.

By: BrooklynBoy

BrooklynBoy — Fri, 30 Jun 2023 18:44:31 +0000

“Affirmative Action” should have been based on economics and not race.

By: Mac

Mac — Fri, 30 Jun 2023 17:19:57 +0000

“…Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson (KBJ), whose dissent read like a furious letter to the college newspaper.”

What a great line.

But her rhetoric, and Sotomayor’s, really bring home the fact that the progressive legal establishment has no real knowledge of or interest in the system of government specified in the constitution. Law is just a set of more or less arbitrary rules to be manipulated toward their purposes.

Admission: I haven’t read their entire opinions, so it’s at least technically possible that the excerpts I’ve seen are unrepresentative.

By: Abraxas

Abraxas — Fri, 30 Jun 2023 16:41:20 +0000

The Supreme Court doesn’t like to overturn major Congressional legislation. Like overturning election results, it’s perceived as going in the face of what the country has decided. The Court doesn’t have as much trouble overturning state legislation, municipal ordinances, or the practices of non-governmental entities.

By: huxley

huxley — Fri, 30 Jun 2023 15:51:53 +0000

Whatever else affirmative action has given us, we are full-up with prominent minority ‘types using their elite credentials to forward the DEI agenda.

You gotta dance with thems what brung you.

By: huxley

huxley — Fri, 30 Jun 2023 15:46:31 +0000

Clarence Thomas Reading His Epic Takedown Of KBJ’s Affirmative Action Dissent Left Her “Visibly Angry”

https://legalinsurrection.com/2023/06/clarence-thomas-reading-his-epic-takedown-of-kbjs-dissent-left-her-visibly-angry/
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I’m not a lawyer, much less one who follows Supreme Court rulings, but lordy, this reads like Thomas gave Ketanji Brown Jackson a public spanking.

Well-deserved. KBJ”s dissent seemed crazy for a serious legal opinion.
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…Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson (KBJ), whose dissent read like a furious letter to the college newspaper or chants at a rally. Or a seminar on CRT. She talked about “lived experience” and the majority’s “let them eat cake” attitude. And the left loved it..

By: miguel cervantes

miguel cervantes — Fri, 30 Jun 2023 15:12:05 +0000

lets not pretend, this is exactly what grievance monger in chief, meant,

By: Art Deco

Art Deco — Fri, 30 Jun 2023 15:02:58 +0000

Michelle Obama — Black people can’t survive without Affirmative Action.
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That’s not quite what she said. The quotations out of her mouth that they did provide in that article are a compendium of humbug, to be sure.
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The smart money says that without preference schemes, Craig and Michelle Robinson would have attended one or another of Illinois’ five public research universities, perhaps earning a baccalaureate degree and some sort of post-baccalaureate credential. She might or might not have gone to law school. Had she been admitted to the bar, she’d have cadged a position in an ordinary firm and might still be working at it. Or she might have left the profession after a few years and gone into some other line of work, like real estate sales. She wouldn’t have had the odd institutional patronage positions she had for 17 years, which, in re the latter part of that period, look suspiciously like conduits to launder bribes. (Craig Robinson’s work has operational measures of competence and doesn’t require fancy schools, so one might wager he’d have done much the same with his life). A different life, to be sure. Less lush, more honest.

By: Barry Meislin

Barry Meislin — Fri, 30 Jun 2023 14:04:55 +0000

“…back in chains…”

Demagoguery at its finest.

Actually, you want to put people back in chains? Simply(!) encourage them to feel like they’re perennial victims and have NO responsibility for their decisions or their lives or the lives of others; make ’em feel that OTHERS—preferably SOCIETY as a whole—are responsible for their misfortunes, for their problems, for their failures….
Make ’em angry. Make ’em desperate. Make ’em hateful. Make ’em feel that THEY deserve to get whatever they want WITHOUT having to work for it. Make ’em internalize that they WILL never have to—should never have to—get back up when they fall down.
Especially make ’em despise the Law!

Do all that, Joe…and you’ve created SLAVES for life!!
(Slaves who, BTW Joe, are so shackled—self-shackled(?)—that they WILL VOTE FOR precisely those who are keeping them shackled; encouraging them to stay in chains!! to stay slaves…)
Teach ’em well, Joe!
(Should be, KEEP ON teaching ’em well…)

By: Barry Meislin

Barry Meislin — Fri, 30 Jun 2023 13:28:28 +0000

Personally speaking, I think the argument that in order to eliminate racism you NEED to implement MORE of it is an unusually elegant one…if essentially incoherent, non-sensical and torturously twisted, backwards and unethical—I mean one really has to TRY REALLY HARD to be so convoluted…but then one probably should make allowances for people who for some reason have no idea how to define “woman” (to be sure, that inability, or refusal(?), may just be the latest prerequisite for gaining a spot on SCOTUS….).
And KBJ’s eloquent plea FOR institutionalized and LEGALIZED—CONSTITUTIONAL!—racism is a need so necessary and so obvious, so therapeutic and so cleansing, that anyone who doesn’t agree with it is…a RACIST!…and —why not go the whole hog?—a WHITE-SUPREMACIST!
Well, they should just hop on the [HATE ‘n REPARATIONS] train!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_bB-kjGAhc
File under: RR (Remedial Racism)….