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I'm going to treat this objection in good faith. Quoting from their most-recent-of-several amici briefs on the matter: Brown University, University of Chicago
by patio11 12y ago
I'm going to treat this objection in good faith.
Quoting from their most-recent-of-several amici briefs on the matter:
Brown University, University of Chicago, Columbia
University, Cornell University, Dartmouth College,
Duke University, Harvard University, Johns Hopkins
University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
University of Pennsylvania, Princeton University,
Stanford University, Vanderbilt University, and Yale
University submit this brief as amici curiae in support
of respondents. [[Amici have long used admissions policies
similar to the Harvard Plan that Justice Powell approved
in Regents of University of California v. Bakke]],
438 U.S. 265 (1978), and the University of Michigan
Law School plan this Court upheld in Grutter v. Bollinger,
539 U.S. 306 (2003). [[Amici accordingly have substantial
experience with admissions policies that consider
all aspects of an applicant’s background and experience,
including in some circumstances the applicant’s
racial or ethnic background.]]
They go on:
[[Amici accordingly urge the Court]] to interpret
the Constitution, consistent with Bakke and Grutter, to
continue to [[allow educational institutions to structure
admissions programs that take account of race and ethnicity]]
as single factors within a highly individualized,
holistic review process.
I have taken the liberty of using [[double brackets] to direct your attention to the really salient bits.
There's the whose-who of American universities saying, in pretty clear language, to the Supreme Court, that they would find it very inconvenient if the Supreme Court were to illegalize their racial discrimination programs.
Are you still unconvinced that American universities operate racial discrimination programs?
If your objection is the more narrow "I agree that American universities often operate racial discrimination programs, but disagree that those racial discrimination programs disfavor Asians", I'd be more than happy to find you citations of of which groups particular formal racial discrimination policies discriminate in favor of. This will, inevitably, fail to find Asians on that list. If you disagree with me on this prediction, please name three representative universities and I'll happily do the legwork on finding their written statement of which races are favored by their formal racial discrimination programs.