Affirmative Action unconstitutional.
No word on whether legacy or donor admissions are OK.
https://twitter.com/markmobility/status/1674079161101459462?s=46&t=XGja5BtSraUljl_WWUrIUg
Race can be considered if itâs part of an applicantâs âindividual storyâ and not just based on their âidentityâ? What?
This seems baffling because I canât imagine any non-white person growing up in America whose ethnic identity is not part of their individual story and among the obstacles theyâve had to overcome.
I guess now they all have to write the same application essay specifically about racial trauma.
So pretty much, letâs issue a few surprise rulings that make the court look bipartisan and legitimate. Then use that cover to kill affirmative action. Roberts is a way better political operative than people realize.
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I donât think this ruling is as big a deal as others here. Lots of places have outlawed affirmative action in schools⌠and schools have found ways to admit URM still. Specifically thinking california and michigan, both of who outlawed AA but, after an initial recovery period, ended up doing just as well as they were before.
So bad, but not as bad as it could be.
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wait what?
They exempted the military academies lmao fuck all the way off.
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looooooool this fucking guy
Yea I brought up california elsewhere and got lambasted by the affirmative action boogeyman peddlers. This ruling feels pretty inconsequential and like pandering to me.
Are we getting 303 Creative tomorrow? Gonna be lit when SCOTUS takes a hatchet to public accommodation laws over an entirely fake case
Spoiler: Stewart is a happily married straight man & father in another state who has no idea what the fuck any of this is
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This isnât really true though. The number of black students in higher ed in CA went down significantly after they banned affirmative action. As a share of the college population, they were 50 percent in 2019 of what they were in 1997 before the ban. Source: Dropping affirmative action had huge impact on Californiaâs public universities â EdSource
Gotta be that large state universities are most impacted? Feel like smaller schools or highly selective places will still care (or not care) about diversity and will choose students for having inspiring essays or something and magically end up with the %s they hoped for
To answer my own question, sounds like yes (a couple places Iâve seen have said tomorrow is the last opinion day of the term) so itâs nice to go to bed on the west coast knowing thereâs a high likelihood of waking up to unhinged NYT and WaPo phone notifications
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Student loans tomorrow too? Makes you feel like a billionaire to have cash money riding on a lawsuit. But not being a billionaire means itâs looking 
Ah yes that would be the thing that politicizes the court you fucking human paraquat
Same in Florida
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I could have sworn it recovered. Seems like Iâm wrong about that
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