It was a great day in discovering the Supreme Court ruled in a 6-3 decision against Harvard and the University of North Carolina for their racist affirmative action policy in admissions. No longer will they be able to consider the race of a student applicant. This is a boon to those kids who actually have proven themselves to be the creme de la creme of high school graduates and will no longer be passed over by those with lesser merit due to racial characteristics in order to meet nonsensical "diversity" quotas.
From what I'm hearing, Harvard in particular is already crafting a work around in order to continue the fiction of "diversity is our strength", but at this writing I haven't the details to go into that one way or the other. Given their recent history, I wouldn't be surprised if they went so far as to appeal the ruling...if that's even possible.
Affirmative action policy is racial discrimination in the other direction. For whatever reason, Asian students are routinely at the top of the merit pecking order, surpassing all other racial groups, including the hated white kids. But worse than that is what these policies have done to too many black students who weren't truly suited to the level and pace of institutions such as Harvard. Even within a single racial group, kids learn at different paces and in different ways. My own daughter, who spent her entire four years in college on the dean's list, had been "demoted" from a math class in high school which crushed her greatly given her own desire to achieve. To be told she wasn't capable to keeping up in the highest level as devastating, but the eventual consequence was that she kicked ass in the "second best" class, as she was just on the cusp. She might have done well enough in the toughest class, but she was aces due to the recommendation that she not be in the "Harvard" class. This has been a problem for too many minorities whose race or ethnicity got them into the top universities, taking spots which students with far better GPAs were then denied. Because, a school can't have too many Asians, right? No matter how freaking smart they might be! What would that do to their reputation for churning out the best and brightest!!!
As an aside, because of a teacher with whom my daughter clashed, she was placed in an English class which was somewhat remedial for her abilities. The teacher didn't understand how this genius was placed in this class, and quickly got her into a more advanced English class where she belonged. She would have been bored out of her mind and might have done poorly as a result of waiting around for the others to complete what she was able to accomplish in short order. That is to say, she would not have been challenged, and this too is a consequence of being prohibited from placement due to the institution's desire to satisfy the woke morons of academia.
In any case, this ruling likely only applies to universities. Corporations can still pretend they're better off with a rainbow coalition (and by that I don't mean queers, though they are to be part of the the "diversity over merit" policy of any "progressive" company for whom profits and longevity apparently have no value. Were I to be the top dog in a large corporation, I wouldn't care in the slightest if my entire work force looked like the Aryan Youth, so long as they were the best at what they do and made my company tops in the industry. For that matter, I wouldn't give a flying rat's rump if the whole place was populated by black people so long as they were the best, too. That's because I'd only hire based on quality of the applicants and no other reason (though if there'd be any dickheads, they'd be let go post haste and replaced with better).
Years ago I applied for a job for which there were two open positions available. They ultimately trained three of us and we all knew only two would survive. I was too concerned with learning what I needed to know to compare myself with the other two, but eventually I was not the odd man out. How much my striking good looks played a role in their decision I can't say, but I do know I proved myself capable. That's how it's supposed to work if one wishes to have a successful company, and if one wishes their institution of higher learning be regarded as the best. The ability of the workers and students is what matters and "diversity" is a scam into which only stupid people buy.
Thus, I'm most pleased that the SCOTUS did the obvious here. The dissenters...Kagan, Sotomayor and Jackson...were horrified at the majority's ruling. But then, they were diversity hires themselves, so it's not at all surprising that they chose to pretend a great injustice was perpetrated. Affirmative Action had was always a bad idea, though I believe it was well intended. But it never required an Einstein to see the problem of its own racism in reverse. That's no way to deal with bad attitudes. One simply stops and rejects them in favor of better. It wouldn't have been so bad had the various fields of endeavor not lowered standards in order to provide a place for those who weren't actually capable, but instead were said to have been denied on racist grounds. The quality of life thus dropped accordingly. There was a time when I lived among a population almost entirely white (one black family on the other side of the block). Merit was all that mattered. How horrible it was for any of us who didn't measure up but were of the same race and thus had no race card to play!! We actually had to work harder or find a different area of interest or work.
Finally, I don't begrudge any quality individual who took advantage of favorable laws and policies to get to the top. Clarence Thomas, I believe, claimed to have been one such person. Thankfully he's brilliant anyway and may have been able to get where he is regardless. But if a funky law is in place, one is an idiot to not take advantage if one can. However, we're all better off when the funky law is rejected in favor of truth and common sense. In this case, that's been done. I hope Harvard, UNC and any other university who played that game will get on board.
