Affirmative action is gone: Now what?
Following the Supreme Court's decision from June 29, 2023
It’s gone, can you believe it? The safe admission spots that white elites were warming for their kids, too lazy to compete against the hard-working Asians, are gone together with it. In case you are still unsure, 80% of the affirmative action burden was shouldered by the inconvenient minority, with 60% of the Asian would-be students being denied their deserved admissions. The advantage of affirmative action over quotas—as a racial discrimination mechanism—recently became clearer: quotas are hard to change, but the affirmative action turned out to have a built-in ability to automatically adjust for a 25% increase in the SAT performance of Asian college applicants from 2018 through 2021. Finally, the elites’ smokescreen of “anti-racism” is now exposed as just that: a smokescreen (and to be sure, racism is still with us, but not in its orthogonal to reality NPR version). Wow, so much, in one day!
What should we do now:
Fight for bringing real knowledge back to the K-12 curriculum. Children in Harlem, South LA, and the Appalachians must regain access to knowledge and become able to compete with others, no matter how much extracurricular enrichment the rich kids were fed.
Fight for bringing merit-based schools for the gifted and talented to the underserved neighborhoods. Talent exists, contrary to the wealthy white whisper. And talent knows no color.
Today is another day!
I never thought I’d be applauding this Supreme Court, but this is a major victory of sanity over cant and a corrupted policy. Merit, merit, merit! And the solutions you offer are a far more meaningful and effective means to achieve fairness.