The White Student Suing to Overthrow Affirmative Action Was Too Dumb to Get Into Her Chosen College [View all]

[DonRedwood]

Life is tough for white people in America. A few hundred years of presumed superiority have left many of them psychologically unable to deal with failure, trapped in a cycle of victimhood where their own shortcomings can only be understood as evidence of persecution against them. So we have Abigail Fisher, 23 years old, and the plaintiff in Fisher v. University of Texas, which is currently being weighed by the Supreme Court.

Fisher, who is white, is suing the university because—well, because the full-time crusaders against affirmative action asked her to. But her ostensible complaint is that she applied to go to the University of Texas at Austin but didn't get in, while some students who are not white did get in, under the university's system of weighing "personal circumstances," including poverty and race, in some of its admissions. Ergo, under the logic of anti-reverse racism, some undeserving minority student took her spot.

But this week, Pro Publica published a look into the actual circumstances surrounding University of Texas admissions when Fisher applied. And that the reason Fisher didn't get in was that she wasn't qualified.

Yet even for those, Pro Publica reports, Fisher and her backer Edward Blum can't say she was cheated because of her race:

niversity officials claim in court filings that even if Fisher received points for her race and every other personal achievement factor, the letter she received in the mail still would have said no.

It's true that the university, for whatever reason, offered provisional admission to some students with lower test scores and grades than Fisher. Five of those students were black or Latino. Forty-two were white.

Neither Fisher nor Blum mentioned those 42 applicants in interviews. Nor did they acknowledge the 168 black and Latino students with grades as good as or better than Fisher's who were also denied entry into the university that year. Also left unsaid is the fact that Fisher turned down a standard UT offer under which she could have gone to the university her sophomore year if she earned a 3.2 GPA at another Texas university school in her freshman year.

http://gawker.com/5991588/the-white-student-suing-to-overthrow-affirmative-action-was-too-dumb-to-get-into-her-chosen-college

http://www.propublica.org/article/a-colorblind-constitution-what-abigail-fishers-affirmative-action-case-is-r

OK...so I'm quoting the gawker article because I thought their take on this was pretty hilarious, then I am quoting the part of Propublica's article that gawker was quoting...so, I'm putting both links. Gawker is snide. Propublica's is more newslike and upstanding...but both share a pretty amazing story. Give one of them a read.

I'm really looking forward to your comments about this case!