The Supremes Sink Affirmative Action
Probably the right thing for all the wrong reasons
June 29, 2023
By Marc Cooper
I was up working on other stuff very late into the night and have little energy to write the response I wanted to the SuprCrt ruling on affirmative action.
Very happily, I just read Freddie deBoer’s great piece just out and I am going to repost it here.
I fully associate myself with every word Freddie writes about this. AA as a device for “diversity” is a transparent sham that benefits the PR needs of elite universities.
And it does little to nothing about righting the opportunity imbalances for the vast majority of its supposed beneficiaries as well as others who might be equally or more disadvantaged in spite of their “whiteness.”.
It’s also flat out discrimination against Asians. Remember, didn’t you join in the Stop Anti-Asian Hate Week?
Here’s Freddie. See u next week.
This case was about Harvard and UNC. Two elite schools. AA is NOT important for most lesser schools as their admittance rates are wide open and people of color are not excluded in any sense. So I have.a question for you: My wife is from the Chilean middle class. Our daughter's last name is Vargas. She is identified a Latina/Hispanic in most places. Her father -- me-- is Jewish and upper middle class. AA sees here the same way and would grant her the same privileges as the son of a Guatemalan gardener. That's the problem with race based AA. Where does the race begin? Or end? It was the slavemasters and the So Africans who insisted ob "blood quotas" to see if u were really back or white. Absurd. Also, in the last 100 years literally millions of BLACK people from the Jamaica, Haiti, Cuba, and of course, Africa have immigrated here. Many are quite successful. Do u think they should also be given considered special attention? And the real victims here are Asians who -- collectively-- do better than white men and more easily qualify for elite colleges. But many do not get in as those seats are allocated to AA recipients. You think that's ok? I don't.
I also would like to say i really enjoy reading The Coop Scoop. I'm glad i found it! I especially was fascinated by your writing about Chile. After seeing the film, Missing, which devastated me, I've been really interested to see how Chile has "moved on" since Pinochet. And surrounding Latin American countries that went through similar experiences. And what our role was/is still. Thank you!