Nothing is more infuriating than listening to someone defend racist affirmative action policies.

Quote:Justice Sonia Sotomayor said she supports affirmative action in higher education because she believes that alternatives based on geographic or economic status don’t work to ensure a diverse student body.

Sotomayor has said race-conscious programs in the 1970s that opened Ivy League schools to minorities were essential to her rise from the Bronx public housing projects to her admission to Princeton and Yale Law School, where she excelled.

Sotomayor, the court’s first Latina, was asked by George Stephanopoulos in a segment taped for ABC’s “This Week” about programs that might increase diversity in higher education that would be “less fractious” than the use of race.

She said that other programs have not proved as successful in diversifying student bodies and that universities should be able to consider race and not just academic measurements.

“What does qualifications mean in an academic setting?” she said. “A place like Princeton could fill their entire beginning freshman class with students who have scored perfectly on undergraduate metrics.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/j...ingtonpost

This woman is an idiot... Why the Senate approved her with almost no problems is beyond any normal person's train of thought...

I pray for the health of all SCOTUS justices. Even the liberal ones. No one that is there now is as violently destructive as the whack jobs that President Pretentiousness would nominate.

and Pray for a republican senate in November. that'll put a stopper in the judicial mayhem that the obamites are committing.

(06-22-2014 08:33 PM)EagleRockCafe Wrote:  Sotomayor has said race-conscious programs in the 1970s that opened Ivy League schools to minorities were essential to her rise from the Bronx public housing projects to her admission to Princeton and Yale Law School, where she excelled.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/j...ingtonpost

Seems to me that should be reason enough to oppose them. We'd all be better off if she were still in the projects.

(06-22-2014 08:53 PM)DaSaintFan Wrote:  This woman is an idiot...

She's also a racist in a position of power that she will hold for a long time.

She's a Racist for life! Literally !!


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No surprise here. I knew she had a racial axe to grind early on. People like her aren't hiding it, they wear it proudly in everything they do and say. Her entire career has screamed this.

IMO, had a white democrat POTUS nominated her, she would have never got thru. Political correctness from all sides plus the all too willing press core helped grease her in with ease.

Diversity is a worthless metric. It's of zero value on its own.

(06-22-2014 10:40 PM)HeartOfDixie Wrote:  Diversity is a worthless metric. It's of zero value on its own.

It's existence stands as proof of our social victory over segregation. I believe it's valuable, I just don't believe it should be a result of government coercion.

No it should be academic standing. If a African American qualifies for a school it should be based on academic merit and not his race.

Segregation was a byproduct of Federal Reconstruction.


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(06-22-2014 09:28 PM)smn1256 Wrote:  

(06-22-2014 08:53 PM)DaSaintFan Wrote:  This woman is an idiot...

She's also a racist in a position of power that she will hold for a long time.

She knows how she got her job, so she's just paying it foward.

(06-22-2014 10:40 PM)HeartOfDixie Wrote:  Diversity is a worthless metric. It's of zero value on its own.

(06-23-2014 07:49 AM)DrTorch Wrote:  

(06-22-2014 10:40 PM)HeartOfDixie Wrote:  Diversity is a worthless metric. It's of zero value on its own.

Diversity is a worthwhile endeaver. However, in our day and age, it's pretty much been relegated as a neccessity only to check the box on some govt document.

Nothing screams "I'm not as capable as others" as Affirmative Action in the year 2014. Obviously, it had it's time and place, but today all it does is shout to minorities that white liberals don't think they can achieve on their own. Sad really that so many minorities follow blindly those that tell them "You're not good enough".

It created a caste type system by making "you're pretty smart, for a black guy" a verifiable statement.

I can't believe some of you don't want brown people to have a chance to go to school over someone deserving.

(06-23-2014 09:03 AM)gdunn Wrote:  I can't believe some of you don't want brown people to have a chance to go to school over someone deserving.

I get the sarcasm; however, if that is the case I wish schools would just say that and stop with all this "affirmative action" BS. Just put it in their policies and make it public that "x" amount of minorities will be given admission each year at the expense of some other more qualified individual.

(06-23-2014 09:07 AM)VA49er Wrote:  

(06-23-2014 09:03 AM)gdunn Wrote:  I can't believe some of you don't want brown people to have a chance to go to school over someone deserving.

I get the sarcasm; however, if that is the case I wish schools would just say that and stop with all this "affirmative action" BS. Just put it in their policies and make it public that "x" amount of minorities will be given admission each year at the expense of some other more qualified individual.

But is that truly fair? Do you think Harvard wants the best or someone who is mediocre but they have to accept them because of AA?

If AA becomes the case for enrollment of college, there needs to be a clause put in that those let in for AA must attend 90% of all classes, carry a full load, and cannot withdraw and re-admit in the same academic year.

(06-23-2014 09:19 AM)gdunn Wrote:  

(06-23-2014 09:07 AM)VA49er Wrote:  

(06-23-2014 09:03 AM)gdunn Wrote:  I can't believe some of you don't want brown people to have a chance to go to school over someone deserving.

I get the sarcasm; however, if that is the case I wish schools would just say that and stop with all this "affirmative action" BS. Just put it in their policies and make it public that "x" amount of minorities will be given admission each year at the expense of some other more qualified individual.

But is that truly fair? Do you think Harvard wants the best or someone who is mediocre but they have to accept them because of AA?

If AA becomes the case for enrollment of college, there needs to be a clause put in that those let in for AA must attend 90% of all classes, carry a full load, and cannot withdraw and re-admit in the same academic year.

No, it obviously isn't fair but fairness is pretty one sided with regard to this topic.