On his first day in office, President Joe Biden signed a huge stack of executive orders reversing orders by the Trump administration. A couple of weeks later, though, the Biden administration very quietly dropped a federal lawsuit against Yale for discriminating against white and Asian applicants. It didn’t get much attention at the time, but it showed where the Biden administration stood on affirmative action.
In an op-ed in the Los Angeles Times, Jean Guerrero argues that the outcome of court challenges to affirmative action isn’t to do away with discrimination but rather to spread white supremacy. Guerrero is shocked that the right-wing propaganda machine has led “73% of Americans, including most people of color, [to] believe race or ethnicity should not be a factor in college admissions.”
Oh, and to kick things off, if you haven’t heard, claiming you’re “colorblind” is a sign of toxic whiteness.
Guerrero writes:
The Republican activists leading a decades-long assault on affirmative action, which is poised to succeed in the Supreme Court, claim they want to eliminate racism and create a colorblind society.
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But those same activists who’ve stoked the flames of antagonism toward affirmative action have close ties to the architects of this country’s metastasizing white nationalist movement. These links reveal the activists’ ultimate agenda, which has nothing to do with ending racism.
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As Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson noted, a hypothetical Black applicant writing about his family’s historical lack of access to the university due to slavery could not have his background valued in admissions, while a hypothetical white applicant writing about his family’s long history of attending the university could. That would end up violating the equal protection clause that the plaintiffs claim to respect.
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Los Angeles Times has an oped titled: "Affirmative action challenges aren’t about ending discrimination. Their goal is white supremacy."
A sentence from the oped: pic.twitter.com/di7kQAM1O1
— Zaid Jilani (@ZaidJilani) November 21, 2022
I'm actually impressed the oped had enough nuance to put the polling in there, even though the headline is describing the majority of Latino, Asian, and African Americans as engaged in white supremacy.
— Zaid Jilani (@ZaidJilani) November 21, 2022
It's not about the underlying policy, you can have any view on it and we should be able to debate it, the question is why is so much of political oped just reaaaally reaching to smear people who disagree with you?
— Zaid Jilani (@ZaidJilani) November 21, 2022
I have friends on all sides of most issues who can debate these things as normal respectful people. The odd thing about media is it seems to elevate the most abnormal and weird arguments. At first it was clickbait, but now it's institutionalized.
— Zaid Jilani (@ZaidJilani) November 21, 2022
Look at all that internalized racism.
— Benemy of the people 📿 (@BenemyoftheP) November 21, 2022
On the contrary, activist propaganda is so pervasive, people actually believe things not remotely related to white supremacy are related to white supremacy
— Mike (@Boston__Sucks) November 21, 2022
Oh boy, she then goes on to characterize a jewish guy and two black dudes as white nationalist-adjacent
— Geoffrey Ingersoll (@GPIngersoll) November 21, 2022
The only possible conclusion the Los Angeles times could come to is that 73% of Americans are extremists. Clearly.
— Limp Brisket (@44ozrefill) November 21, 2022
The twists of logic and brain gymnastics of the woke mind are beyond understanding at this point. I can't keep up.
— Mark Epsster (@MarkEpss93) November 21, 2022
Either you want racial discrimination or you don't. If you want to limit racial discrimination to one single race (i.e. white people) only, then you are still for racial discrimination.
— Paine/Mizrey '24 (@TheMule1961) November 21, 2022
Anyone can have an opinion. But this seems obviously dumb. It would be Asian supremacy, if we are talking university admission policies.
— Ron Yamauchi (Kenji) (@RonYamauchi) November 21, 2022
As we reported last year, the University of Maryland tried to make its incoming freshman class seem more diverse by splitting it into “white and Asians” and “students of color, minus Asian.”
They can’t comprehend most people coming to a logical conclusion. The only way society could possibly disagree with them is a massive brainwashing campaign by chuds
— Longfellow (@TheeLongfellow) November 21, 2022
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