SCOTUS

[Commando]

Race-based admissions are dead.

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2023/06...095be609c290aa

Yeah I wondered when SCOTUS would step in to make sure Black Americans stay underrepresented in college.

[Non Sequitur]

First Amendment problem there.

I'm no lawyer, but help me understand the difference between Harvard not being able ask an applicant their race and BYU not being able to ask an applicant their religious affiliation. I understand the ruling when it comes to public schools, but it seems that private schools should be able to set whatever admission policies they want.

[Maximus]

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[Commando]

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Yeah I noticed this distinction in the opinion. They can't ask them to check a box, but they can certainly mention how their race has presented challenges in their life and educational journey. They just can't 'consider' race as its own stark category. Ok whatever lol.

[Jeff Lebowski]

Clarence Thomas with a scathing response to the dissent.

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[BlueK]

I'm no lawyer, but help me understand the difference between Harvard not being able ask an applicant their race and BYU not being able to ask an applicant their religious affiliation. I understand the ruling when it comes to public schools, but it seems that private schools should be able to set whatever admission policies they want.

I'm not as informed on exactly what the ruling said. Can universities not even ask race now?

[Jeff Lebowski]

Say what you will about the benefits of affirmative action, at the end of the day it results in individuals being discriminated against solely on the basis of race. Not only that, but the ones bearing the heaviest impacts are a minority (asians). Not surprised at all with this ruling.

[Jeff Lebowski]

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[Clark Addison]

Say what you will about the benefits of affirmative action, at the end of the day it results in individuals being discriminated against solely on the basis of race. Not only that, but the ones bearing the heaviest impacts are a minority (asians). Not surprised at all with this ruling.

Yeah, this ruling will be VERY popular with many of my Asian friends. Several of them have been very vocal in their displeasure of Affirmative Action in college admissions.

[Jeff Lebowski]

Boom. Another ruling. This one is 7-0 in favor of religious freedom (trigger warning for NS).

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[Bo Diddley]

Boom. Another ruling. This one is 7-0 in favor of religious freedom (trigger warning for NS).

If you really cared about triggering NS, you would have put all that under a spoiler tag.

[Commando]

Clarence Thomas with a scathing response to the dissent.

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Clarence Thomas railing against affirmative action? Irony ruling?

[Non Sequitur]

Boom. Another ruling. This one is 7-0 in favor of religious freedom (trigger warning for NS).

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I don't have a problem with religious freedom. I do have a problem with forced religious accommodation, especially when that accommodation is pretty much just for the Court's religion of choice, the Christian religion. If this case were brought by a Muslim who didn't want to work during Ramadan, I'm not sure the result would have been the same.

[Non Sequitur]

If you really cared about triggering NS, you would have put all that under a spoiler tag.

I don't mind being triggered. What else am I going to do on a Thursday night?

[Jeff Lebowski]

Yikes

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