USSC decision on AA expected next month

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I am so delighted to see the end of affirmative action. Just need to dump legacy and athletic preference.

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Why would schools ever drop athletic preference? Do you think Georgia wants to field a team of walk ons?

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Anonymous wrote:Why would schools ever drop athletic preference? Do you think Georgia wants to field a team of walk ons?

Red herring. PP is clearly talking about country club sports at colleges that don’t make any revenue from sports. I.e. sailing & rowing.

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Anonymous wrote:Why would schools ever drop athletic preference? Do you think Georgia wants to field a team of walk ons?

To be honest, the athletes at D1 schools are so unqualified to be actual students that they should just probably create semi-pro teams associated with the colleges and stop pretending that these kids are students-athletes. The NIL has taken one step toward this.

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Anonymous wrote:Why would schools ever drop athletic preference? Do you think Georgia wants to field a team of walk ons?

To be honest, the athletes at D1 schools are so unqualified to be actual students that they should just probably create semi-pro teams associated with the colleges and stop pretending that these kids are students-athletes. The NIL has taken one step toward this.

Male football & basketball athletes at D1 power 5 schools are a small fraction of “athletes at D1 schools.”

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Anonymous wrote:Until Clarence Thomas resigns from the Supreme Court for being corrupt, no decision it renders where he is a deciding vote is legitimate.

+2.

How dare he step out of line.

How dare he accept hundreds of thousands in undeclared donations.

How dare Sotomayor made $Ms from a book deal and didn’t recuse herself from ruling on a case in which her publisher was a litigant?

Gorsuch too on that.

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Anonymous wrote:Until Clarence Thomas resigns from the Supreme Court for being corrupt, no decision it renders where he is a deciding vote is legitimate.

+2.

How dare he step out of line.

How dare he accept hundreds of thousands in undeclared donations.

Not legally required to report. YOu know this. All the justices supplement their income (poor by comparison to law firm partners' salaries) this way. It's always been this way. The left just wants to tar and feather Thomas. Again

This is definitely debatable which you should know given how much you claim to know about SC ethics. I think Sotomayer should have recused, but at least she reported all her income.

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Anonymous wrote:Until Clarence Thomas resigns from the Supreme Court for being corrupt, no decision it renders where he is a deciding vote is legitimate.

+2.

How dare he step out of line.

How dare he accept hundreds of thousands in undeclared donations.

Not legally required to report. YOu know this. All the justices supplement their income (poor by comparison to law firm partners' salaries) this way. It's always been this way. The left just wants to tar and feather Thomas. Again

Oh look, it’s you again. Also all government employees are poor by comparison to big law salaries.

You would be screaming from the roof tops if a standard GS 13 employee was legally committing these same ethics violations.

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I heard that Asian-American groups are already planning to celebrate the termination of AA. They wished that SCOTUS would issue the opinion in May, the AAPI Heritage Month. But no, SCOTUS won’t issue this landmark opinion until the end of the term in June. They regard this as the most significant civil rights victory by Asian-Americans since US v. Wong Kim Ark (1898), which ruled that anyone born in the US is a US citizen according to the 14th Amendment.

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Anonymous wrote:I heard that Asian-American groups are already planning to celebrate the termination of AA. They wished that SCOTUS would issue the opinion in May, the AAPI Heritage Month. But no, SCOTUS won’t issue this landmark opinion until the end of the term in June. They regard this as the most significant civil rights victory by Asian-Americans since US v. Wong Kim Ark (1898), which ruled that anyone born in the US is a US citizen according to the 14th Amendment.

Most Asian Americans support AA, so your "celebration" thing is off base.

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Anonymous wrote:I heard that Asian-American groups are already planning to celebrate the termination of AA. They wished that SCOTUS would issue the opinion in May, the AAPI Heritage Month. But no, SCOTUS won’t issue this landmark opinion until the end of the term in June. They regard this as the most significant civil rights victory by Asian-Americans since US v. Wong Kim Ark (1898), which ruled that anyone born in the US is a US citizen according to the 14th Amendment.

Most Asian Americans support AA, so your "celebration" thing is off base.

People are smart enough to say they do because that's the societal norm. Every time it goes on a ballot, it loses and people are shocked

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Anonymous wrote:I heard that Asian-American groups are already planning to celebrate the termination of AA. They wished that SCOTUS would issue the opinion in May, the AAPI Heritage Month. But no, SCOTUS won’t issue this landmark opinion until the end of the term in June. They regard this as the most significant civil rights victory by Asian-Americans since US v. Wong Kim Ark (1898), which ruled that anyone born in the US is a US citizen according to the 14th Amendment.

Most Asian Americans support AA, so your "celebration" thing is off base.

The AAPI survey that found this was misleadingI don't know a single Asian American who supports race based college admissions, and I am Asian American. I and many I know support SES/income based affirmative action, but not race based.

https://thehill.com/opinion/civil-rights/3886266-affirmative-misinformation-what-asian-americans-really-think-of-affirmative-action/

a closer look reveals that the AAPI Data’s survey questions intentionally incline respondents to express support for the controversial admissions policy, revealing more about the question Asian Americans were asked than the values they hold. The reality is that many Asian Americans are not as enthusiastic about racial preferences as AAPI Data and much of the media would like us to believe.

The question behind the statistic reads: “Do you favor or oppose affirmative action programs designed to help Black people, women and other minorities get better access to education?”

In every such survey, the “better access” question produced an overwhelmingly positive response — not only did over 60 percent of all respondents say they favored affirmative action, but so did a majority of each individual Asian-origin group.

In 2018 and 2016, however, AAPI Data included a second question about race-based college admissions on the AAVS, which read: “In general, do you think affirmative action programs designed to increase the number of Black and minority students on college campuses are a good thing or a bad thing?” The answers to that question tell an entirely different story.

In 2018, support for affirmative action among Asian Americans as a whole was 8 percentage points lower (58 percent) in response to the “increase the number” question than in response to its “better access” question (66 percent). In 2016, there was a 12 percentage-point gap — 64 percent support on the “better access” question but only 52 percent on the “increase the number” question. Moreover, in 2016, nearly two-thirds of Chinese American participants responded to the “increase the number” question by saying affirmative action is a “bad thing,” an instance of majority disapproval of the policy.

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Anonymous wrote:I heard that Asian-American groups are already planning to celebrate the termination of AA. They wished that SCOTUS would issue the opinion in May, the AAPI Heritage Month. But no, SCOTUS won’t issue this landmark opinion until the end of the term in June. They regard this as the most significant civil rights victory by Asian-Americans since US v. Wong Kim Ark (1898), which ruled that anyone born in the US is a US citizen according to the 14th Amendment.

Most Asian Americans support AA, so your "celebration" thing is off base.

People are smart enough to say they do because that's the societal norm. Every time it goes on a ballot, it loses and people are shocked

+1 Prop 209 in CA, large Asian population.

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Anonymous wrote:I heard that Asian-American groups are already planning to celebrate the termination of AA. They wished that SCOTUS would issue the opinion in May, the AAPI Heritage Month. But no, SCOTUS won’t issue this landmark opinion until the end of the term in June. They regard this as the most significant civil rights victory by Asian-Americans since US v. Wong Kim Ark (1898), which ruled that anyone born in the US is a US citizen according to the 14th Amendment.

Most Asian Americans support AA, so your "celebration" thing is off base.

People are smart enough to say they do because that's the societal norm. Every time it goes on a ballot, it loses and people are shocked

+1 Prop 209 in CA, large Asian population.

Agree. Most Asians are adamantly against AA. Some may say otherwise on surveys just to be politically correct. Those from some Asian countries express their opinions that are opposite to their beliefs—especially those from totalitarian countries like China and Vietnam. They think that the woke left in this country are no better than Communists.

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Anonymous wrote:Why would schools ever drop athletic preference? Do you think Georgia wants to field a team of walk ons?

Red herring. PP is clearly talking about country club sports at colleges that don’t make any revenue from sports. I.e. sailing & rowing.

Yup, who has the most sports teams of any college? Harvard with its small undergraduate population.