{"id":4176,"date":"2023-07-04T09:12:43","date_gmt":"2023-07-04T14:12:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/?p=4176"},"modified":"2023-07-04T09:12:43","modified_gmt":"2023-07-04T14:12:43","slug":"why-the-left-really-wants-you-to-believe-scotus-ruling-against-affirmative-action-is-racist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/?p=4176","title":{"rendered":"Why The Left Really Wants You To Believe SCOTUS\u2019 Ruling Against Affirmative Action Is \u2018Racist\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg'%20viewBox='0%200%20370%20247'%3E%3C\/svg%3E\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/image-19.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"zeen-lazy-load-base zeen-lazy-load wp-image-4177\"\/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"788\" height=\"443\" src=\"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/image-19.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4177\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/image-19.png 788w, https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/image-19-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/image-19-770x433.png 770w, https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/image-19-293x165.png 293w, https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/image-19-390x219.png 390w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 788px) 100vw, 788px\" \/><\/noscript><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Supreme Court\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/bigleaguepolitics.com\/breaking-supreme-court-rules-race-based-affirmative-action-programs-unconstitutional\/\">ruling against affirmative action<\/a>\u00a0is being praised by one side and blasted as \u201cracist\u201d by the other.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Breaking News: The Supreme Court rejected affirmative action at Harvard and UNC. The major ruling curtails race-conscious college admissions in the U.S., all but ensuring that elite institutions become whiter and more Asian and less Black and Latino.<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/SlMCRldkvN\">https:\/\/t.co\/SlMCRldkvN<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/flnORE7sHa\">pic.twitter.com\/flnORE7sHa<\/a><\/p>&mdash; The New York Times (@nytimes) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nytimes\/status\/1674422849011089411?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 29, 2023<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">How a ruling that is meant to promote individuals based on merit (something one can control) versus the basis of their skin color and or sexual orientation (something one cannot control) as\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CurtisHouck\/status\/1674431725500518402?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1674431725500518402%7Ctwgr%5Ec54b4a4dacb048e4fffb7110c101e590c3bd3762%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.dailywire.com%2Fnews%2Fa-dagger-in-our-back-leftists-freak-out-after-scotus-overturns-affirmative-action-in-college-admissions\">\u201cracist\u201d<\/a>\u00a0is nothing more than leftist dogma.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Boston University law students offered therapy in response to recent Supreme Court decisions <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/LjwLNOHUER\">https:\/\/t.co\/LjwLNOHUER<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Fox News (@FoxNews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FoxNews\/status\/1674963564824522752?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 1, 2023<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As&nbsp;<em>Big League Politics<\/em>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/bigleaguepolitics.com\/leftists-outraged-over-racist-discriminatory-scotus-affirmative-action-ruling-a-dagger-in-our-back\/\">reported last week<\/a>, the left, as everyone could have expected, is in ultimate freak out mode over the recent SCOTUS ruling. Even though most Americans&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ipsos.com\/en-us\/americans-split-recent-supreme-court-decisions\">agree<\/a>&nbsp;with conservative justices on affirmative action decision<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Primary because left-wing talking heads understand what this ruling will mean for race-based affirmative action policies across all institutions in the future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Race-based affirmative action policies, or more like anything-but-White polices, have been used to aid people of color or with minority status with gaining status in prominent institutions based on skin color or how they choose to identify.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Regarding admissions at places like Harvard, these policies have affected Asian Americans too. Bumping out qualified candidates based on skin color in place of someone more\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2023\/06\/22\/scotus-affirmative-action-decisions-impact-on-corporate-america\">\u201cdisenfranchised.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">An extremist Supreme Court has once again reversed decades of settled law, rolled back the march toward racial justice, and narrowed educational opportunity for all. I won&#39;t stop fighting for young people with big dreams who deserve an equal chance to pursue their future.<\/p>&mdash; Elizabeth Warren (@SenWarren) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SenWarren\/status\/1674448621159305220?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 29, 2023<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The premise of these policies is simple and discriminatory: Anything a White and Asian Americans achieved was \u201cgiven\u201d to them by a racist society. While anything a minority did not achieve was also based on a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2023\/06\/29\/supreme-court-blocks-affirmative-action\/\">broken, systematically racist society.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Wow. Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson dissent. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ica3ED6LZq\">pic.twitter.com\/ica3ED6LZq<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Neal Katyal (@neal_katyal) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/neal_katyal\/status\/1674424777744977923?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 29, 2023<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The only thing truly racist here was the affirmative action policies that overlooked merit for status. Initiatives that judge individuals not on what they can achieve but on what they are owed and should have achieved had they been born different.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As we will witness in the coming months, the left will do and say everything they can\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/joe-biden-criticizes-supreme-court-170457421.html\">to discredit this decision by SCOTUS<\/a>. They will rant and rave about how this puts minorities at a disadvantage and give example after example of isolated cases involving someone who had everything taken away from them because of this ruling.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">At the end of her read dissent, Sotomayor moved beyond the court\u2019s decision and spoke to society \u2014 including directly urging colleges to use race in admissions in whatever way they can.<br><br>\u201cWe shall overcome,\u201d she pointedly said.<\/p>&mdash; Gabe Fleisher (@WakeUp2Politics) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WakeUp2Politics\/status\/1674432687137001473?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 29, 2023<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">All those woes couldn\u2019t be farther from the truth. In fact, they are the opposite.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">America used to be a place that applauded success no matter where a person came from or what they were born with.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.documentcloud.org\/documents\/23863998-supreme-court-decision-in-unc-admissions-case#document\/p1\">This decision<\/a>\u00a0is a step in the right direction for achieving this nation\u2019s founding principles: equal opportunity for all.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Original Article: <a href=\"https:\/\/bigleaguepolitics.com\/why-the-left-really-wants-you-to-believe-the-supreme-courts-ruling-against-affirmative-action-is-racist\/\">https:\/\/bigleaguepolitics.com\/why-the-left-really-wants-you-to-believe-the-supreme-courts-ruling-against-affirmative-action-is-racist\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gcjdjhs3e.com\/32NN4QZ\/FGXLG\/\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Supreme Court\u2019s\u00a0ruling against affirmative action\u00a0is being praised by one side and blasted as \u201cracist\u201d by the other. How a ruling that is meant to promote individuals based on merit (something one can control) versus the basis of their skin color and or sexual orientation (something one cannot control) as\u00a0\u201cracist\u201d\u00a0is nothing more than leftist dogma. As&nbsp;Big League Politics&nbsp;reported last week, the left, as everyone could have expected, is in ultimate freak out mode over the recent SCOTUS ruling. Even though [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-woke-agenda"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4176"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4176\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4178,"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4176\/revisions\/4178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}