In a methodical and scholarly decision written by Chief Justice John Roberts, the Supreme Court this week did what I predicted last fall they would do. They said racial discrimination in college admissions is unconstitutional. Several other Justices joined Roberts’ decision while also writing their own concurrences, including Justice Clarence Thomas in an emotion-packed opinion of Constitutional originalism that would do proud his old mentor, Justice Antonin Scalia.
Excuse me. Nobody is not going to go to college because of the Supreme Court finding in the Harvard and North Carolina discrimination case. There will not be fewer racial minorities in college. What we do not need, and sorry about that, is disadvantaged minorities hitching themselves to the train of Ivy League monopolism. Time for everyone to grow up and the assert the value of their own degrees.
Liberals remind me of cats - fastidiously clean, but check out the floor around their cat box, strewn with filth. THEIR cars don't generate CO2, but the stacks from the electric company belch forth tons. THEIR gated neighborhoods are minority free, but they're happy to dilute campuses with low performing blacks and hispanics.
They remove themselves from the down and dirty real world everyone else lives in and lose touch with reality. It works for them - for the time being. Colleges have priced themselves out of the market while the quality of what they offer plummets. A reckoning is inevitable
Alas, Harvard will find a way to get its oboe player, just do so in a more clever way. That is perhaps the worst analogy I have ever heard from a lawyer which is going some but it came from a former Harvard undergrad so there you have it. Properly smacked down by Chief Justice Roberts.
Bravo! Being a product of “higher education” yourself, how did you learn to think so well? I have only one minor dissenting thought -- about Bill Gates, who might have benefited from what used to be called, in the best sense, a “liberal” education, steeped in the classics and so on. He strikes me as a species of moral monster dwelling at the core of so much of what is wrong with our world. But I can hardly fault him for dropping out a modern “scam”-mongering “university” that knows nothing about either the Universe or human nature.
Finally, is “emotion-bation” an original coinage of yours? If so, take a bow.
Excuse me. Nobody is not going to go to college because of the Supreme Court finding in the Harvard and North Carolina discrimination case. There will not be fewer racial minorities in college. What we do not need, and sorry about that, is disadvantaged minorities hitching themselves to the train of Ivy League monopolism. Time for everyone to grow up and the assert the value of their own degrees.
Liberals remind me of cats - fastidiously clean, but check out the floor around their cat box, strewn with filth. THEIR cars don't generate CO2, but the stacks from the electric company belch forth tons. THEIR gated neighborhoods are minority free, but they're happy to dilute campuses with low performing blacks and hispanics.
They remove themselves from the down and dirty real world everyone else lives in and lose touch with reality. It works for them - for the time being. Colleges have priced themselves out of the market while the quality of what they offer plummets. A reckoning is inevitable
Alas, Harvard will find a way to get its oboe player, just do so in a more clever way. That is perhaps the worst analogy I have ever heard from a lawyer which is going some but it came from a former Harvard undergrad so there you have it. Properly smacked down by Chief Justice Roberts.
Bravo! Being a product of “higher education” yourself, how did you learn to think so well? I have only one minor dissenting thought -- about Bill Gates, who might have benefited from what used to be called, in the best sense, a “liberal” education, steeped in the classics and so on. He strikes me as a species of moral monster dwelling at the core of so much of what is wrong with our world. But I can hardly fault him for dropping out a modern “scam”-mongering “university” that knows nothing about either the Universe or human nature.
Finally, is “emotion-bation” an original coinage of yours? If so, take a bow.
Thanks, Glenn. What a succinct recap of this momentous decision. Ain't gonna let nobody turn me around.
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