A massive blow to mediocre white people coasting on their racial privilege

[Night Watchman]

Abigail Fisher’s Supreme Court loss

Amanda Marcotte writes in Salon...

Abigail Fisher, the plaintiff in the latest round of affirmative action cases heard before the Supreme Court, is the perfect villain in a liberal morality play about the evils of racism.

Fisher’s case before the Supreme Court, in which she demanded that she be admitted to the University of Texas at Austin despite not having the grades to get in, confirmed every liberal suspicion about the opposition to affirmative action, namely that it’s not about “equality” at all, but about making sure white people are always first in line, ahead of all people of color, for job and education opportunities. That her lawyer, Edward Blum, has made a career out of creative litigation designed to keep people of color from getting jobs, schooling, and even political representation simply confirms it further.

But all this just makes it all the more emotionally satisfying to report that Fisher was handed a huge defeat in the Supreme Court on Thursday, when conservative justice Anthony Kennedy sided with the liberal side of the court to preserve UT Austin’s admissions protocol aimed at promoting racial diversity at the school.

“A university is in large part defined by those intangible ‘qualities which are incapable of objective measurement but which make for greatness,’” Kennedy wrote in his decision. “Considerable deference is owed to a university in defining those intangible characteristics, like student body diversity, that are central to its identity and educational mission.”

http://www.salon.com/2016/06/23/abigail_fishers_supreme_court_loss_a_massive_blow_to_mediocre_white_people_coasting_on_their_racial_privilege/

Aww dey shud letter in anyway cuzz shes PURDY!

[giftedgirl77]

1. Lol, I can only hope that someone put her up to this

stupid stunt.

[alarimer]

4. It is my understanding that they went plaintiff shopping

To find the perfect poster child for this. But they did not check her actual scores and things. She actually did not have a case at all.

[giftedgirl77]

5. Damn dummies

[marble falls]

2. Its not as if she can't get into a good school.

[Hoppy]

3. NPR says she got her degree at another institution....

Maybe the Carvel College of Ice Cream Knowledge in Yonkers, N.Y.

Or maybe Hamburger U.