The Supreme Court finally saw the light and decided racism is racism and racial set asides in universities are blatantly unconstitutional. Well....duh!
Unfortunately there are three of the justices, known dimwits, who find it impossible to grasp that simple and fundamental fact. And we find the entire leftist nitwit brigade has joined them in their outrage, and many universities plan to ignore that ruling, because they know better, and simply don't care what
the Supreme Court says. Isn't that amazing?
When SCOTUS irrationally discovered abortion was a constitutional right, in spite of the obvious fact the Constitution never said any such thing, they were jubilant. Except in order to "find" abortion in the Constitution, amazingly, the federal judiciary "discovered" there are penumbras and emanations that radiate from the simple and understandable language of the Constitution. Why? Because the simple and understandable language didn't give them the right to impose legislation from the bench, so they had to develop language that did.
The word penumbra originally was a scientific term "created to describe
the shadows that occur during eclipses." And I think the word shadows
is more than appropriate when its used in relationship with the
Constitution. The "penumbra" of the Constitution "implies" rights not
actually written in the Constitution, and in fact the concept gives then
the ability to define, redefine and even ignore the actual and simple
language of the Constitution. All of which has been done by the federal
judiciary at every level. All in an effort to make the Constitution a
"Living Document". An open ended concept that allows for unending abuse, and the end to the rule of law! And the left was jubilant beyond measure, because the SCOTUS was all great, and all wise beyond all imagination.
How quickly that can change.
Now the Constitution is just an old dusty document, a racist document at that, and SCOTUS isn't all great, wise and knowing, and, according to Joe Biden, this SCOTUS isn't even a normal court. Joe Biden defining normal? Imagine that.
The left also believes SCOTUS is in serious need of fixing with more justices, far left justices, and imposed restrictions by Congress. And most importantly, SCOTUS needs to accept public opinion as the rule of law. Provided of course that public opinion is a leftest public opinion.
Well, that's generated a massive red herring fallacy discussion regarding "fairness" and university admissions dealing with legacy admissions.
Monica Showalter of America Thinker is one of my favorite writers. I have a number of writers I regularly pay close attention to, and she's one of them. Some even allow me to publish their work, But I don't always agree with them. Yesterday she published this piece entitled, Now it's legacy admissions' turn decrying the unfairness of legacy admissions to elite universities, many of whom wouldn't have been admitted if not for this preferential treatment. And what about those kids who are admitted because their parents donated massive amounts of money to these universities? Should the universities be forced to stop admitting the children of rich donors?
What we're seeing here is family taking care of family. Is that so terrible? Did anyone
ever notice how many Hollywood stars had parents and/or grandparents who
were Hollywood bigwigs? Family taking care of family. How many of the rich have inherited huge wealth because they descended from wealthy parents. Isn't that a form of "legacy"? As a result, should that be allowed? And who decides? Should government bureaucrats, race baiters, insane leftists decide what's fair?
Let's try an understand this properly.
Legacy admittance was created by those who created
these institutions in order to make sure the "right people" met the
"right people" in order to perpetuate the "right people's" class and
riches.
Why is that so terrible?
On a personal level, I despise all these elitist privileges, but so what? Should that give me the right to strip them of these perfectly legal privileges. Let me make it clear, I’m not one of the
“right people” and I don’t wish to be one of the “right people” because
most of those of that class I’ve met, I didn’t like, and had no desire
to associate with them. However, why shouldn’t people have the right to
decide who they wish to associate with, or isolate themselves from?
The
left is filled with people who live in echo chambers of head nodding
dunderheads, like Nikole Hannah-Jones, and yet, there’s no outrage over
that from the media or so-called social justice warriors.
- Is it so terribly immoral for rich people to want their children to marry the children of other rich people?
- Is it so terribly immoral for people of a certain class to want their children to marry the children of parents of that class, or even race for that matter?
- Is so terrible for those who share religious beliefs to want their children to marry those who share those religious beliefs?
- Is
it so terribly immoral for people of a certain political persuasion to
want their children to marry the children whose parents share that
political view?
- Don't think it's fair? Okay, but please tell
me who wrote the Book of Fair? Generally speaking, fair is often a
matter of who’s ox is being gored.
- Diversity, inclusion, equity, multiculturalism. Please explain to me how well that’s worked out for France.
The
fact is these legacy admissions were created by these institutions, which they had every right to do, and were not
imposed by the government. That’s the difference, and it's a big difference! Let's try and get this once and for all. Fairness isn’t
the issue here, government mandates based on race, religion or any other
criteria is the issue here, and it's the only issue here.
Where in
the Constitution does it say the government should be making these
decisions? It’s not the government's job to decide who’s chosen by
these institutions, and it's long overdue for these institutions to stop
feeding at the government trough, and way long past time for government
to stop funding education, at all levels.
Everything else are red herring fallacies playing into the hands of people who unending
scream how terrible and racist is America. Many of them made wealthy by
America. What really needs to be done to fix all this is eliminate the Department of Education.
Now if we really want "fair", that's a really good start.
