Affirmative action ruling is correct and start of greater culture war


The landmark Supreme Court ruling banning race-conscious admissions practices at U.S. colleges and universities has sharply divided the parties in Washington. President Biden said this Supreme Court has “done more to unravel basic rights and basic decisions than any court in recent history.” Justice Clarence Thomas, in his concurring opinion, wrote that the Constitution declares the color of a person’s skin should be irrelevant to their treatment under the law.

Straight Arrow News contributor Ben Weingarten agrees with Justice Thomas’ assessment and goes further. Weingarten argues the Court’s ruling represents the beginning of a much greater culture war against the woke movement.

The Supreme Court’s decision in Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard, which barred affirmative action and admissions at schools receiving government assistance, was both legally and morally correct.

In a free society that believes in equality, people should be judged on their merits, not their skin color. So, that America’s ruling class from President Joe Biden on down recoiled in horror at the ruling, melting down, was telling. It showed that as good anti-racists, they believe in discriminating on the basis of race, supposedly because they want to right past wrongs and pursue equity, by which they mean they want to engineer social outcomes so that people are represented in every aspect of life proportionally, by identity. Whatever this does for the beneficiaries of the discrimination, and the victims of it, at minimum this effort empowers the social engineers.

Equity as opposed to equality is central to the DEI regime elites have imposed on the country. It’s literally the E in DEI.

In theory, the Supreme Court’s jurisprudence threatens to topple that regime, or at least state sponsorship of it. In practice, as can be seen in Harvard’s instant response to the ruling telegraphing that it would use proxies for race to maintain a de facto affirmative action program, our elites will do everything possible to skirt the ruling.

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