Supreme Court strikes down affirmative action in college admissions

Post by endisneigh » Thu, Jun 29, 2023, 7:39 PM UTC

s1artibartfast wrote: post #271

endisneigh wrote: post #19

I’ll need to read the opinion but why not eliminate consideration using all protected statuses (race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, sexual orientation, or gender identity), national origin, age (40 or older), disability and genetic information)? Affirmative action is not just about race. It doesn’t make sense that you can discriminate on any protected status to begin with. In any case I doubt this will c…

It is already illegial to consider all of the characteristics you mentioned. Historically, there was a specific legal exemption 14th ammendementment allowing racial discrimination. This ruling closes the exemption for racial consideration. Discrimination based on other protected statuses remain closed >Any exceptions to the Equal Protection Clause’s guarantee must survive a daunting two-step examination known as “str…

Post by balls187 » Thu, Jun 29, 2023, 7:40 PM UTC

losvedir wrote: post #41

As someone of Hispanic descent this is very interesting to me. Affirmative Action probably helped my father, whose father was a construction worker and mother a homemaker both of whom dropped out of high school, get into college and ultimately become a doctor. But because my father was a doctor, I had a fairly privileged upbringing. I'm a generation removed, but growing up in California always had to indicate my back…

Post by rendang » Thu, Jun 29, 2023, 7:56 PM UTC

givemeethekeys wrote: post #628

flowerlad wrote: post #47

It is important to note that Harward’s admission policy that is the subject of this case was designed to favor White students over Jewish ones [1]. Today it is being used to discriminate against Asian Americans. Colleges are already prepared for this ruling. Many, such as the University of Washington have abandoned standardized tests because such tests compell universities to admit the kinds of students universities…

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Post by Eumenes » Thu, Jun 29, 2023, 8:02 PM UTC

TheCaptain4815 wrote: post #344

Eumenes wrote: post #138

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Could racially discriminatory hiring strategies be next? I'm no fan of regulation and government intervention in private business, but its gotten out of control in tech and the corporate world. I've flat out heard hiring managers say they'll only hire a woman, lgbtq, or [certain minority] for certain roles. I've sat in hiring committees where candidates preform horribly, esp compared to others being reviewed at the…

So stop being a coward and record and leak those conversations.

Post by stu2b50 » Thu, Jun 29, 2023, 8:09 PM UTC

whatgoodisaroad wrote: post #269

skrebbel wrote: post #162

The concept of affirmative action is foreign to me (quite literally so). I only know it from American media, and I've come understand it to mean "positively discriminate based on race, so long as it's a minority race" - please correct me of I'm wrong. But anyway, my question for the Americans here who grok this stuff: I assume the intent is to help disadvantaged people have opportunities that more priviledged people…

To preface: I don’t really have an opinion on affirmative action per se: That said, the elephant in the room is that institutions like Harvard and UNC aren’t really about education. They’re “ivy leagues” for preserving class inequality having been marketed as schools. To the extent that race is a distraction from class, the fact that counteracting racial bias in admissions has failed to uplift the poor just puts too…