At long last, the Supreme Court of the United States determined that race based affirmative action in higher education is unconstitutional in a 6-3 ruling. In the decision that broke along ideological lines, the courtâs conservative majority ruled against the admissions schemes of Harvard and the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill because they donât comply with the 14th Amendmentâs guarantee of equal protection.
In an earlier legal filing in this case, it was revealed that if Harvard admitted students only from the 10% of its applicants, and didnât take race as a factor in admissions, the percentage of Asian students admitted would more than double from 24.9% to 51.7%.
Over at the bizarro world that is MSNBC, the striking down of a racist policy was itself presented as racist.
Eddie Glaude, a professor at Princeton University who is a regular on MSNBC, complained that âWe will return to elite institutions most specifically being the space for particular populations, for predominantly white and Asian students,â with no elaboration on why that scares him.
Glaude then turned to comparing colleges basing their admissions criteria on applicant quality instead of skin color to a return to Jim Crow. âWe will begin to see a kind of segregated higher education landscape,â Glaude said. âThe irony of course is this was just one remedy to the legacy of discrimination in admissions in American higher education. Only one remedy, and so here theyâve taken it away.â
Matt Palumbo is the author of Fact-Checking the Fact-Checkers: How the Left Hijacked and Weaponized the Fact-Checking Industry and The Man Behind the Curtain: Inside the Secret Network of George Soros
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