The Supreme Court is going to take up two cases about race-based affirmative action in higher education. Hopefully, this marks the beginning of the end to the racism that universities dress up as “inclusivity” and “diversity.”
There is almost no question what Harvard and the University of North Carolina are doing. While Harvard contends that it is not discriminating against Asian American applicants, court documents show that Harvard drives down the number of Asian students admitted with personality scores and a “demographic” category. But both universities assert that considering race in the application process is protected by Supreme Court precedent, and that is where the problem lies.
The court should finally end the consideration of race in admissions.
Affirmative action was once a well-meaning policy designed to rectify decades of discrimination, but we are no longer living in the 1960s or even the 1980s. The policy has gone from one designed to rectify past racist policies to a racist policy itself as universities turn racial discrimination against academically overperforming demographic groups (namely Asians) in order to be more inclusive.
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What Harvard and North Carolina, along with other universities, are fighting for is the ability to implement racial quotas to preserve racial diversity, one of the more irrelevant forms of diversity that adds very little to higher education. Diversity of thought is far more important and far less of a priority. Diversity of class and socioeconomic status is also omitted, as 71% of black and Latino Harvard students come from privileged, high-income backgrounds.
Pairing together rich black students, rich white students, rich Latino students, and rich Asian students is what Harvard argues creates an educationally stimulating environment. These “holistic” admissions policies create racial diversity through discrimination under the guise of personality scores and essays, even as these schools remain bogs of left-wing politics and, in the case of Harvard and other Ivy League schools, bubbles for elitists.
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The left-wing obsession with race needs to be stamped out of cultural and political life, but it must also be shredded in the legal arena. The Supreme Court has the responsibility to ensure that racial discrimination is no longer considered a legal, legitimate point in admissions in universities. And the justices will now have the opportunity to fix it.
