Tommy Callahan Posted June 30, 2023 Posted June 30, 2023 (edited) 5 minutes ago, B-Man said: Media outlets have predictably chosen to turn to progressives for "objective" "analysis" of today's Supreme Court ruling striking down affirmative action in college admissions. It's annoying as hell, and it certainly doesn't allow room to entertain opinions from people who feel that SCOTUS made the right decision. So we were pleasantly surprised to see this clip of Brown University student Alex Shieh being interviewed by ABC News' David Muir during a "Special Report" on SCOTUS' ruling. He did as good a job as any of making a clear and reasonable argument against affirmative action policies as you'll find, and he did it all without resorting to the sort of screaming and shouting that we've gotten from the liberal side of the debate. Watch for yourselves and see what we mean: Alex Shieh understands why affirmative action is wrong, and he eloquently presented a case against it and in favor of colleges taking a holistic approach to vetting prospective students. https://twitchy.com/sarahd/2023/06/29/brown-university-student-response-to-scotus-decision-n2384955 . pretty sure he just became a meme. I keep reading how he is Based. they are gonna have to attack him. cause it's gonna be very hard to find any part of his statement that can be attacked. Edited June 30, 2023 by Chris farley 1
The Frankish Reich Posted June 30, 2023 Author Posted June 30, 2023 9 minutes ago, B-Man said: . Student loan bailout was, to me, a closer case, but only because on its face Congress stupidly gave the President (Bush 43, post-9/11) ridiculously expansive authority to tinker with student loans. The language should have been narrow: "for borrowers able to show a temporary hardship in making payments that is based on the attacks of September 11 and its immediate consequences, the Secretary of Education shall have the authority to delay required payments, without further accrual of interest, for a period not to exceed 18 months." Or something like that. I hope Congress learned something; I doubt they have. 1
B-Man Posted June 30, 2023 Posted June 30, 2023 Affirmative Action has had forty-five years to prove its worth. It hasn't. Colleges deny the most qualified applicants, and their quota-filling replacements wash out after one or two years, all for the sake of photos of "diverse" smiling faces in their brochures. And you still are on the hook for that student loan. Remember, Bided declared up front that he would ONLY hire according to Affirmative Action. You see how far that has gotten his administration. 2
B-Man Posted June 30, 2023 Posted June 30, 2023 Yipes ! FTA: Chief Justice John Roberts delivered a scathing response to the liberal justices in Thursday’s Affirmative Action decision, accusing them of burying a power grab in the dissents penned by Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Ketanji Brown Jackson, with Justice Elena Kagan concurring. Roberts addressed the dissent on page 46 of his opinion, saying that the Justices had divorced the case from the context in a concerted effort to make the Court the arbiter of which race[s] were entitled to preferential treatment. “The principal dissent wrenches our case law from its context, going to lengths to ignore the parts of that law it does not like. The serious reservations that Bakke, Grutter, and Fisher had about racial preferences go unrecognized,” Roberts began. “The unambiguous requirements of the Equal Protection Clause — ‘the most rigid,’ ‘searching’ scrutiny it entails — go without note.” “And the repeated demands that race-based admissions programs must end go overlooked — contorted, worse still, into a demand that such programs never stop,” Roberts continued. The Chief Justice went on to attack the liberal justices’ apparent attempt to reserve for the Court the power to choose which race[s] deserve such beneficial treatment, saying it was so egregious that it mirrored decisions rendered before the “Second Founding” — when the post-Civil-War-era 14th Amendment and the included Equal Protection Clause put an end to the Court’s freedom to do so. “That is a remarkable view of the judicial role—remarkably wrong,” Roberts said. “Lost in the false pretense of judicial humility that the dissent espouses is a claim to power so radical, so destructive, that it required a Second Founding to undo. ‘Justice Harlan knew better,’ one of the dissents decrees. … Indeed he did: ‘[I]n view of the Constitution, in the eye of the law, there is in this country no superior, dominant, ruling class of citizens. There is no caste here. Our Constitution is color-blind, and neither knows nor tolerates classes among citizens.’ Plessy, 163 U. S., at 559 (Harlan, J., dissenting).” https://www.dailywire.com/news/chief-justice-roberts-accuses-liberal-justices-of-power-grab-in-affirmative-action-opinion . . 3
K D Posted June 30, 2023 Posted June 30, 2023 3 hours ago, TH3 said: So the military is still racist….because the can still use race as a factor according to the majority opinion? Anyone using race is a racist. That's the definition 1
Buftex Posted July 1, 2023 Posted July 1, 2023 Who needs affirmative action when you have Harlan Crow?
Buftex Posted July 1, 2023 Posted July 1, 2023 On 6/29/2023 at 11:06 AM, boyst said: i don't post here much since the worthwhile folks left. but, i just want to stand here and beat the drum of victory on the folks who don't like this. Still pretty much the same #######s that have been posting here year after year, copy and pasting their tired BS. I'd think you would love it!
SoCal Deek Posted July 1, 2023 Posted July 1, 2023 13 minutes ago, BillStime said: I have no idea what you think this little clip shows, other than the fact that Joe Biden was a moron back then as well. 1 1 1
Orlando Buffalo Posted July 1, 2023 Posted July 1, 2023 Do you think Soledad will ever realize how racist this tweet is?
BillStime Posted July 1, 2023 Posted July 1, 2023 🎯 This court did no favors for the cult come 2024. ETTD
SoCal Deek Posted July 1, 2023 Posted July 1, 2023 7 minutes ago, Orlando Tim said: Do you think Soledad will ever realize how racist this tweet is? Not a chance. But I love reading and listening while these racist progressives say the quiet parts out loud. 1 2
BillStime Posted July 1, 2023 Posted July 1, 2023 1 minute ago, SoCal Deek said: Not a chance. But I love reading and listening while these racist progressives say the quiet parts out loud. But that’s how she feels, right?
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