Universities and colleges have made it pretty clear so far that they fully intend to continue to engage in “good racial discrimination” in admissions despite the Supreme Court finally declaring affirmative action what it is and has always been: unfair, illegal and unconstitutional. Chief Justice John Roberts, who wrote the majority opinion in the Harvard and University of North Carolina cases, inadvertently (or not) gave the green light for this: he noted that a black applicant could still get an edge by signalling his or her diverse “experiences” and exemplary character in the face of adversity by writing an essay about dealing with the traumas of racism. Now administrators know they can favor black applicants over white and Asians (who can be seen above at Harvard demonstrating for discrimination against themselves) on the basis of race if they’re clever enough about it.
This wasn’t clever enough: Columbia Law School’s admissions page on its website this week announced that “all applicants” had to submit a 90 second video answering a “question chosen at random.” You know, like “What race am I?” The requirement was supposedly intended to “allow applicants to provide the Admissions Committee with additional insight into their personal strengths and academic or other achievements.”
All it took was a wave of critical social media posts flagging Columbia’s lame trick to persuade the law school that it needs to come up with something else. The video requirement didn’t even last the day.
A spokesperson told reporters that the video statement requirement was “posted in error.”
Sure.
Ethics Alarms 
Are you surprised? The Supreme Court’s decisions are only the supreme law of the land and binding when liberals are in the majority. Otherwise, they are at best just helpful guidelines, and at worst illegitimate decisions that all good people have a patriotic duty to defy.
“who can be seen above at Harvard demonstrating for discrimination against themselves”
Considering that women, and especially white women, were actually the biggest beneficiaries from affirmative action (despite the focus on blacks—I mean women are now constitute more than 60% of college students/grads) it’s understandable that many women are protesting hard against it.
“who can be seen above at Harvard demonstrating for discrimination against themselves”
Considering that women, and especially white women, were actually the biggest beneficiaries from affirmative action (despite the focus on blacks—I mean women are now constitute more than 60% of college students/grads) it’s understandable that many women are protesting hard against it.
In other words, the Supreme Court made its decision now let the Court enforce it. Nice.
The first Democratic president said something to that effect. 😀 Keith Overbite said it less well recently, somewhere between all the expletives.
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2023/07/liberals-should-use-state-courts-to-check-the-supreme-court.html
Read this, if you can keep your bile down. The name of the author should tell you all you need to know if you know her – she’s a law prof in CA who not only campaigns against any kind of proactive law enforcement and tries to exonerate the convicted, but has filed 8 disciplinary complaints against prosecutors, none of which have gone anywhere. What she is suggesting is basically insurrection by trying to work around the SCOTUS.
Funny, though, when the Mayor of Newark’s attempt to turn the Civilian Complaint review Board into a de facto inquisition court for the police was slapped down by the Supreme Court of NJ, based on a state statute, he became hopping mad and demanded an EXPEDITED filing with SCOTUS as well as a fast-tracked bill in the state legislature to give him what he wanted. This reminds me of the characterization of the “neutral evil” alignment in 2e D&D, which was “When the law helps me, I’ll work within it, when it doesn’t, I’ll work around it.” Funny also how the left is so against states’ rights when they are in charge of the feds, but so much in favor of them when they aren’t.
So desperate to pursue racism. When will the progressives ask themselves if they’re the baddies…?
The US Navy says “Hold my beer…”
Aug 2016: Navy no longer requires photos for officer promotion boards
https://www.navytimes.com/2016/08/23/officer-photos-no-longer-required-for-navy-promotion-boards/
Nov 2018: Returns to requiring photos for officer promotion boards
https://www.navytimes.com/2018/11/09/officer-record-photos-to-again-be-seen-by-boards-what-you-need-to-know/
Sep 2020: Removes photos from officer promotion boards
https://www.navy.mil/Press-Office/News-Stories/Article/2337160/navy-removes-photographs-from-all-officer-boards/
Aug 2021: “No photos has hurt diversity goals” – Navy considers return to photo requirement for officer promotion boards
https://www.defensenews.com/news/your-navy/2021/08/03/cnp-removing-photos-from-promotion-boards-has-hurt-diversity/
Meanwhile, at the Babylon Bee: