NEW: In 6-3 decision, Supreme Court rules race-based Affirmative Action programs are unconstitutional, violate the 14th Amendmen...
The Supreme Court just struck a blow to Affirmative Action, ruling race-based college admissions quotas unconstitutional under the 14th Amendment.
I can't fucking believe it took them 20+ years to realize affirmative action is blatant fucking racism.
During the 1964 Civil Rights Act debates, Barry Goldwater opposed the bill due to 3 specific problems with it's "Titles", even though he had been a long supporter of the removal of racial discrimination laws. Barry Goldwater argued that in addition to several of the Titles granting sweeping authority to the federal congress that it never had the authority to have in the first place, he also pointed out that it seemed like several proponents and congressmen were going to try and introduce racial discrimination programs of their own, including racial quotas and possibly anti-white racial discrimination rules, laws, or edicts from bureaucrats.
He was called Hitlerian by MLK Jr, he was called an avowed racist, a conspiracy theorist, a supporter of the Klu Klux Klan, he was declared to be a paranoid schitzophrentic by over 5,000 psychologists as part of an CIA psy-op campaign, and he was spied on by the FBI. To this day, some "historians" will tell you this is the moment the Republican Party supported racism on it's platform, all of it stemming from LBJ smearing him during that years election.
In 1965, several Democrats proposed instituting race quotas and affirmative action policies; just as Goldwater had warned. That was 58 years ago.
I had heard he was an evil racist til I researched him and learned what he actually said. His fears have definitely come true
It's actually hard to find what he said because the propaganda was so fierce.
Basically 3 specific parts of the bill that give congress apparently unlimited power to regulate private transactions. Several of which were later reduced and limited by courts because, yeah, congress can't regulate private home sales and the like.
The rest is what he suspected would come next, which did.
I have his book on my pile to read. I remember someone telling me he was racist and I educated him about how he got a lot of blacks hired in AZ
It's the most fucking, bald faced, back-stabbing, progressive, cancellation I've ever seen.
Nationally esteemed anti-segration activist and Civil Rights supporting politician, who won awards from the NAACP and ACLU, is then slandered as the original sin of all racism in America by the NAACP, the ACLU, Washington Post, New York Times, New York Post, Martin Luther King Jr., and fucking Jackie Robinson.
All because he had the audacity to win the Republican primary against the Nixon-Rockefeller establishment, and run a against the true greatest hero of America: Lyndon Banes Johnson. So much that LBJ had send the FBI & CIA on a war path against him.
Remind you of any orange people you know?
Exactly. He was proven right though. I guess that counts for something.
It took them 50 years to realize that abortion is not referenced at all in the Constitution.
Lol why was this downvoted.
Probably just the baby-killers when they saw it. Normal people reversed the score since, heh.
Which is why the left figured out they should just do whatever they want because by the time the supreme court catches up it's already been de jure "constitutional" for at least a generation.
But mah equity!
My understanding is that they admitted it was in the past affirmative action cases. It's just that they first ruled it was actually OK because diversity was a 'compelling state interest' (Regents of the University of California v. Bakke, 1974 - the specific affirmative action program being challenged there was found to be too obviously racist, but otherwise AA was upheld) and then secondly that while it was racist, it was the just and necessary kind of racism that needed to go on for some more time as basically an additional form of reparations to the 'historically disadvantaged' sort of diverse vibrancy (Grutter v. Bollinger, 2003 - the writer of the majority opinion, Sandra Day O'Connor, opined that AA should go on for another 25 years or so).
They just declared Ketanji unconstitutional.
Read her dissent. She pretty much declared herself illiterate.
I mean, she's done that several times.
I have respect for nearly every Supreme Court Justice -- yes, even RBG. There were times through the years when I saw her use solid jurisprudence, even if I disagree. I still hold the Scalia-RBG friendship as a great example of friendship over ideological lines.
I can't say the same for Brown. She's clearly deeply out of her depth and I imagine there's more than one Justice who dislikes her because she's just not... qualified.
In my opinion Sotomayor isn't that far behind in the retard department. She exposed herself pretty bad in those hearings for the case on those vaccine workplace mandates. It's been over a year so I can't remember the specifics, but just multiple questions that even myself as someone with no formal legal training could tell you were retarded.
It was in stark contrast to Breyer, who was coming at the issue from a statist, boot-licking angle that I clearly disagreed with, but could still note that the questions he asked were reasonable.
To be fair, I haven't read enough of the new lady's stuff, so maybe she really is in a class of her own. But until recently Sotomayor was the clear runt of the litter and I dont want this new diversity hire to make everyone forget just how bad she is.
Sotomayor is the original diversity hire for SCOTUS. She's a stupid cunt who doesn't deserve to be anywhere near a court system
I'd argue that title went to Thurgood Marshall long before Sotomayor took to the bench.
You are right.
Until I read this particular dissent I should watch my tongue because I know how dumb Sotomayor is too (I vaguely recall what you refer to as well).
Wasn't she the one who literally shits her pants?
RBG was a typical jewess, and Ketanji is a typical nigger. It's all as it seems.
This is an opinion.
Her death was a net positive for the country.
She is burning in hell right now 😊
I literally popped a bottle of champagne when she finally croaked. May she burn in hell.
This may shock you, but sometimes people can have really abhorrent opinions and not-so-bad opinions.
I respected her mind, even though I disagreed with how she used it.
I will save the pissing to you, my friend.
Can't wait to dig into this. I'll read the whole disposition this weekend. Is it as sweeping and general as the Bee has presented here?
Trust me, the read gets more fun. Clarence Thomas's concurrent opinion puts Ketanji on blast and it's glorious.
Thomas is a national treasure.
That asshole is simply unbelievable. Here is a portion of her "dissent":
What - in the fuck - does any of that have to do with what is laid out in our constitution? You know, the very thing your job and your opinions are supposed to be directly - and completely - concerned with?
That's exactly what our Bill of Rights lays out, you stupid fuck! The laws are supposed to be colorblind. FUCK!
It's just so tiresome. The fact that the left is continuously allowed to ram through these justices that are clearly not judges, but very obviously activists. They put them up for vetting, those candidates all but lie their asses off in an attempt to act like they aren't activists, and then - most crucially - the media covers for them, and let's them have a pass, so the public doesn't raise a stink about it.
There is just no way this country has a chance of getting better unless we manage to kick the radical left out of the the fucking media (traditional, and now the internet based stuff). A society supposedly based on a marketplace of ideas/debate cannot exist when one side has a total stranglehold on indoctrinating the masses.
Edit: This shit gets even better. Look what the activist/idiot Sotomayor had in her "dissent"
So, we have a supreme court justice just basically outright saying, "I know you guys have to officially abide by this, but obviously you should do everything possible to just skirt around and disregard the ruling". Seriously. How can the country continue to function when entirety of the media is enabling crap like this??? So long as you are on the media's preferred side, you not only have a complete pass do whatever the fuck you want, you can sit on the highest court in the land, and just tell people to disregard that court's rulings.
She didn't write a legal opinion, she wrote a shitty Tumblr post. Clown Justice.
What is our “need for diversity in education” anyway? I “need” professors qualified to teach the material, and students prepared to handle the material taught. I don’t give a rip what race one is in either category. Can you teach it or are you capable of learning it? Get the fuck in there. I just endured three years at law school held back, at times, by unqualified professors ranting about SJW issues instead of the law and unqualified students trying to turn class sessions into SJW struggle sessions. Some of professors and fellow students were great, and I did my best to self-educate when they were not, but I can’t help but feel I lost a portion of the educational opportunity I paid for because of exactly the kind of bullshit Sotomayor is on here.
It's not just that, it's that - like all "diversity" with the left - the only "diversity" they care about is of color of skin. They absolutely don't want diversity of thought.
Seriously. It's so goddamn stupid to think that you don't have diversity with a room full of white people, a room full of asian people, a room full of hispanic people, etc.
Skin color - and more specifically less white people - is all they care about.
Any highlights? I haven't looked at it yet.
I went to sleep before I saw your comment, but imo she wrote it with ChatGPT.
Kamala too, perhaps?
Nothing changes, because the departments that hire employees and admit students have already been critically infected thanks to unconstitutional hiring practices.
As leftists on juries have shown, these people will just start lying right to your face and claim some X factor that makes the unworthy suddenly the perfect choice that the normally perfect candidate won't have.
I don't doubt they will try. But in this case, the right needs to copy the left's notes on the dismantlement of segregation: close every loophole and cut off every avenue of retreat the segregationists tried to fall back to in follow-up cases over the next decades - can't literally have black & white schools so you want to go to legally desegregated but de facto still white/black schools? Fuck that, the courts say that you will have diversity bused into your schools and if you don't like it, they'll sic the pigs on your protesting ass no matter whether you're a student or a parent. Don't want to hire diversity but you can't say so outright anymore so you just try to do it unreported? The same courts will mandate hiring quotas and if you refuse to abide, you'll get sued into oblivion and make the diversity richer than they would've been if you just gave them the job.
Indeed this is only the beginning. If there is to be true and consistent justice the right must look at everything the left did to drag the nation, indeed the West, to where it is today and figure out ways to get back at them through similar avenues, most certainly including retaking and then making use of the institutions which have proven to be such effective weapons in the race war, war on religion, and every other social war of the last century. They must fashion from the Bard's most accurate depiction of a Jew ever their new watch-words for the next 1000 years: "The villainy you teach me, I will execute, and it shall go hard but I will better the instruction."
This is still a win, in that they didn't conquer.
Remember that in California they tried to nationalize racism. They tried to adjust their Civil Rights amendment to adjust the language from:
to
public orprivate organization may [negatively] discriminate on the basis of raceThey explicitly wanted to not only institutionalize "positive" discrimination. But they wanted to explicitly allow the state to be excluded from anti-discrimination law.
Yes, they'll do what they want, but we need stumbling blocks in their way to beat them with when they cross them.
That’s what I fear
Great news for whites and asians, bad news for joggers..
If your only selling point on preferential treatment is skin colour, not merit in either skill or physical advantages, then get left behind. Put in effort and then we can talk.
I mean I’ve heard some blacks complain about the perception that they only have their position because they are black. Well get rid of affirmative action and prove you are qualified
It's self fulfilling as there's enough blacks actively grifting with affirmative action and disenfranchising other blacks wanting to self improve (as you'll hear uncle tom used more by blacks than any other race) that the majority are doing that since most are too burnt out to care to improve anymore.
Hell the ones complaining about it are probably the 'have your cake and eat it too' types not wanting to get called out. Black Americans thanks to allowing the grifters speak on 'their behalf' too many times are probably the least liked out of any race in America currently, this is knocking them off one of their pedestals.
Yep. I’ve said this over and over.
This is one of those times when you have to remind people that the best way to get what you want is to keep going. Something I have noticed even in these forums is that when something doesn't work out, the idea should be dropped or not used. Instead, it should be argued until it does win.
Can you elaborate? What's the "keep going" in this instance?
At first I thought it was an argument for accelerationism but then it seems like he's saying "we finally won after 20 years of trying".
Reality is that every single politician knew affirmative action was racist at the start but it was racist against white people. The only reason affirmative action is being switched off now is because white people are now a minority compared to non-Whites so affirmative action had the possibility of benefiting white people so they killed it. There was no "oh we finally won". This was always the plan from the very start.
See: the meme of Republicucks "losing with grace".
Pretty much. I don't want acceleration, just continue attacking it.
This is only the beginning of a generational war to stop liberals from engaging in racism against whites & asians.
Very few, if any, affirmative action programs will stop because of this ruling. Liberals will not concede defeat & surrender their life's work. They will instead continue their racism & simply slap a different label on it.
True change will require myriad lawsuits against colleges for racial discrimination, slowly hammering these liberals until they reach the point where liability becomes a stronger concern than political ideology.
It's a long road & this is just the beginning.
The only thing that'll stop leftists is removing them from power completely.
Good decision and without a doubt correct, but I can't help but feel like colleges will find a way to do it anyway.
Yeah, I'm concerned about that as well. I don't know the minute details of the case in question, but my understanding is that these schools don't explicitly consider race. What they do is "holistically" consider the applicant, and whites and Asians conveniently always score the lowest on the subjective parts. I don't know how to police that, especially when the colleges certainly won't implement the ruling in good faith.
The soft bigotry of low standards, ah... finds a way.
They can always discriminate by race through some proxy. "Holistic admissions" etc.
The decision specifically speaks to that and forbids it. They are welcome to try, we all just need to be ready to insta-sue them into oblivion because they will lose every time and lose hard.
Most likely, they'll just openly defy the courts and suspend any Republican from practicing law by the bar association.
Do I have to brace for chimpouts?
Do you live in a major city?
I’m not one of the coastal elites, but yes.
Always be prepared, just in case
Not an election year so unlikely
They can't read, so I think you're safe
I'd like to be excited about this, but it will ignored one way or another.
Nice! After a couple stinkers from the court, I was worried.
Hopefully this means more Thomas Sowells will come to the forefront, and less Ketanji Brown Jacksons.
As an Asian American, I am ecstatic to see this.
Glad to see Roberts and Kavanaugh didn't cuck out on this.
Colleges will obviously try to skirt this ruling by dressing up their discrimination in different ways such as weighting the college essay more as well as getting rid of standardized testing scores and lowering the weight of GPA.
This is a great victory but we must remember this is only the first step to ending all of this DEI nonsense.
The lawsuits must continue and racial grifters must be given no quarter.
The ruling is done but the follow through is crucial. Colleges that skirt this ruling must be sued and bankrupted.
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... is this real life?
Reality stopped being real about 8 years ago.
The Universe is the last bit of film on the reel, going popopopop at the end of the movie.
Unfortunately, nothing will change. UCSD is conveniently dropping asian and white admits while massively increasing Hispanic admits, and is now a "Hispanic-serving institution" with access to tons of federal cash, despite CA banning affirmative action for decades. We see the same pattern across the board at other California colleges and universities.
I would rather see a repeal of the Civil Rights Act and allow everyone the opportunity to associate and exclude people as they see fit, rather than only the elite being able to do this behind closed doors, funded with taxpayer money, while the mom and pop shop are unable to handle the legal costs if they try and do the same.
This will be either ignored by colleges, or they will find some workaround where they can claim they aren’t using race to determine selection. Here is an example, they can pull data to look at schools and select people based on which schools have lower graduation rates or lower GPAs. There are always correlative trends that can be used to get the outcome they desire and also makes it much harder to prove in court that they are discriminating based on race.
far too little far too late the damage is already done and they will easily find a way around this
So where do I get my gibs? I decided against law school because my GPA wasn't exceptional and I couldn't score higher than 169/170 on my LSAT - and it was incredibly insulting to see URM candidates get accepted with much worse numbers. I guarantee every guy on here has stories. I could certainly go on.
I can't imagine this ruling be enforced, as institutional racism "affirmative action" is the mandatory policy of government agencies, major corporations, schools up to university, criteria for research funding, etc.
no shit
Well it is unconstitutional. Although don’t they get around this by using the “whole person” method or something like that?
Yeah man, "holistic admissions" that take, e.g., zip code into consideration. There will be cases where this sidestepping takes place and constructive discrimination will be argued, but that'll be difficult to prove.
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