Supreme Court Ends the Last Vestige of 'Systemic Racism' in America

[Kamaji]

Supreme Court Ends the Last Vestige of 'Systemic Racism' in America

Josh Hammer
Jun 30, 2023

On Thursday, the U.S. Supreme Court issued the greatest majority opinion ever written by Chief Justice John G. Roberts. That one-time Obamacare savior, who in 2012 rewrote the Affordable Care Act's individual mandate as a "tax" in order to salvage President Barack Obama's signature domestic policy, this time penned a landmark ruling abolishing something the Left has been clamoring to abolish ever since the 2020 death of George Floyd and the subsequent "Great Awokening" that rocked the republic: "systemic racism" in America.

Oh, that wasn't the way Thursday's huge news was framed by MSNBC talking heads and New York Times editorialists? Curious that.

It is true that the corporate media headlines emanating from Thursday's consolidated opinion in this term's twin affirmative action cases, Students for Fair Admissions (SFFA) v. Harvard College and SFFA v. the University of North Carolina, would have you believe that the Court did something closely approximating the opposite of ending so-called "systemic racism" in America. Those wokesters, "identity politics" enthusiasts, Ibram X. Kendi-esque "anti-racism" proponents, Al Sharpton-style race hustlers, and the addlebrained president of the United States himself would all instead have us believe that a far-right, reactionary cabal of jurisprudential troglodytes on the High Court "set us back" on the issue of race. According to this popular narrative, the SFFA opinion is positively nightmarish; John Roberts might as well be a reincarnation of Roger Taney.

The fact that such a narrative exists -- indeed, that it is so popular -- says a great deal about the woeful state of intellectual honesty and, indeed, basic ethical decency on the American Left. (That very much includes the two vociferous dissenters in SFFA, Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Ketanji Brown Jackson.)

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Source:  https://townhall.com/columnists/joshhammer/2023/06/30/supreme-court-ends-the-last-vestige-of-systemic-racism-in-america-n2625166

[PeteS in CA]

Hopefully, the beginning of the end, because the anti-Asian and -white racists won't roll over and comply. Ceasing to consider SAT and ACT scores in admissions processes is a recently begun part of end-arounding this long anticipated decision.

[Kamaji]

Hopefully, the beginning of the end, because the anti-Asian and -white racists won't roll over and comply. Ceasing to consider SAT and ACT scores in admissions processes is a recently begun part of end-arounding this long anticipated decision.

Agreed.

[roamer_1]

Not the last vestige... The same damnable process is used in hiring.

[Kamaji]

Not the last vestige... The same damnable process is used in hiring.

True enough; however, the rationale in this case is broad enough and clear enough that it will almost certainly be applied in the hiring process as well.

[roamer_1]

True enough; however, the rationale in this case is broad enough and clear enough that it will almost certainly be applied in the hiring process as well.

That would be excellent.

[goatprairie]

AA aka Affirmative Discrimination was destructive not only to the life chances of better qualified non-black students, it was bad for society as a whole, and actually did blacks no favors by casting a perpetual cloud over their "achievements" as persons who were not good enough to get where they were by honest means.
Of course, many race-hustlers didn't care what other people thought, but how would you like to go through life if whatever you achieved, everybody thought you didn't legitimately earn it?
Everybody who works at a place where the boss gave his lazy son a top job has no respect for the lazy son. Why should anybody respect someone else who was handed a job/position simply because of his or race skin color? I sure don't.