#BeckyWithTheBadGrades - A massive blow to Mediocre White People coasting on their racial privilege

Swiffness!
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edited June 2016 in The Social Lounge
over 7,000 students enroll at University of Texas in any given year, and in Abigail’s class only 49 students, total, had a lower GPA than her.





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.”

The invocation of “intangible qualities” is especially critical in this case, which addresses a small number of slots the school offered for provisional admission in 2008. These are students that are admitted even though they don’t have the grades or SAT scores that you usually need to get into the school. The school brings these students in anyway because they see potential for them, despite their mediocre scores. Fisher sees herself as one of those people, but the school did not.

In 2008, 47 such students were admitted who had lower grades or test scores than Fisher. Forty-two of them were white. Only five were people of color.

Fisher and her lawyer Blum were not challenging the admission of the 42 white students.

Instead, Fisher’s argument was narrowly that she should have been admitted instead of one of those students of color. It was the case that collapsed any distinction between opposing affirmative action and demanding that white people be given preference.

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

Much discussion has sprung up around affirmative action’s role in promoting diversity among the student body and the role affirmative action plays in helping minorities, but few have brought up a crucial point that emphasizes just how misguided Fisher’s lawsuit was: white women like Fisher statistically benefit most from affirmative action.

That Fisher was not accepted into UT is not an indication of the unfairness of affirmative action, but rather a testimony to how mediocre Fisher’s performance was. Despite gaining the most from it, the boost affirmative action would have given her in evaluation was not enough to make her seem like an appealing candidate.

http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2016/6/24/1542306/-When-White-Entitlement-Gets-Challenged




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  • Hevalisk
    Hevalisk Members Posts: 1,595 ✭✭✭✭✭
    The invocation of “intangible qualities” is especially critical in this case, which addresses a small number of slots the school offered for provisional admission in 2008. These are students that are admitted even though they don’t have the grades or SAT scores that you usually need to get into the school. The school brings these students in anyway because they see potential for them, despite their mediocre scores. Fisher sees herself as one of those people, but the school did not.

    In 2008, 47 such students were admitted who had lower grades or test scores than Fisher. Forty-two of them were white. Only five were people of color.

    Would you look at this, and yet Asians and Whites stay using black people as the reason they didn't get into school, and "unfairness".
  •   Colin$mackabi$h
    Colin$mackabi$h Members Posts: 16,586 ✭✭✭✭✭
  • Swiffness!
    Swiffness! Members Posts: 10,128 ✭✭✭✭✭
    ABIGAIL FISHER, THE OSCAR MAYER TURKEY BACON OF AVERAGE WHITE WOMEN, LOSES

    Half-empty bottle of backwashed room temperature Aquafina Abigail Fisher finally (!) lost her years-long bid to have the Supreme Court recognize her hawkish and pandemic averageness as ? special.

    This decision is a major blow to 2002 Chevrolet Cavalier-ass White people who wish to be treated like Maseratis. Of course, there’s nothing wrong with being a White person. (Hi White people reading this!) Or even being an average White person. Most people — Black, White, Kappa, etc — are average people. Because math. But there is something particularly and specifically American wrong with reflexively assuming that the reason why your second Wednesday in March-ass ass was passed over was because you happen to be a White woman. And then being so hurt by this fabricated wrong that you take your regifted bottle of three-year-old Almaden Heritage-ass ass to the Supreme Court.

    http://verysmartbrothas.com/abigail-fisher-the-oscar-mayer-turkey-bacon-of-average-white-women-loses/
  • 313 wayz
    313 wayz Members Posts: 2,179 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited June 2016
    Even though the facts are overwhelming on why she should have been denied, if Antonin Scalia was still alive, this ruling would have went the other way bc he could have convinced conservative Kennedy to vote against affirmative action, that's crazy
  • qawshun
    qawshun Members Posts: 9,138 ✭✭✭✭✭
  • playmaker88
    playmaker88 Members Posts: 67,905 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Swiffness! wrote: »
    ABIGAIL FISHER, THE OSCAR MAYER TURKEY BACON OF AVERAGE WHITE WOMEN, LOSES

    Half-empty bottle of backwashed room temperature Aquafina Abigail Fisher finally (!) lost her years-long bid to have the Supreme Court recognize her hawkish and pandemic averageness as ? special.

    This decision is a major blow to 2002 Chevrolet Cavalier-ass White people who wish to be treated like Maseratis. Of course, there’s nothing wrong with being a White person. (Hi White people reading this!) Or even being an average White person. Most people — Black, White, Kappa, etc — are average people. Because math. But there is something particularly and specifically American wrong with reflexively assuming that the reason why your second Wednesday in March-ass ass was passed over was because you happen to be a White woman. And then being so hurt by this fabricated wrong that you take your regifted bottle of three-year-old Almaden Heritage-ass ass to the Supreme Court.

    http://verysmartbrothas.com/abigail-fisher-the-oscar-mayer-turkey-bacon-of-average-white-women-loses/

    That lil article was cheesy as ?
  • Thereal_ba
    Thereal_ba Members Posts: 1,919 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Only 49 students had lower grades


    Cot damnnnnnnnnnnn!!!! Haha
  • dallas' 4 eva
    dallas' 4 eva Members Posts: 11,216 ✭✭✭✭✭
    White people get on my nerves bruh.
  • Neophyte Wolfgang
    Neophyte Wolfgang Members Posts: 4,169 ✭✭✭✭✭
    She has an annoying face
  • VulcanRaven
    VulcanRaven Members Posts: 18,859 ✭✭✭✭✭
    That ? face looks like an ugly fist
  • Olorun22
    Olorun22 Members Posts: 5,696 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Don't be surprise if this ? kills herself
  • Maximus Rex
    Maximus Rex Members Posts: 6,354 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited June 2016
    But what about black-on-black crime?
  • Fosheezy
    Fosheezy Members Posts: 3,204 ✭✭✭✭✭