Supreme Court upholds University of Texas affirmative action plan

[Derec]

I'm shocked, shocked to find these pro-AA tirades are based ignorance of the facts.

FIFY.

By the way, is there any chance Texas could ban racial preferences through a referendum like Michigan and California did?

 

[Derec]

So, even though there is no dispute that race is a factor in admission at the University of Texas law school, it's not the points system or quota system people are supposing.

No, it's more under the radar. That does not change that it is a system that privileges certain groups (blacks, hispanics, women) over others.

And it's not a convenient bypass minorities get to take while whites and Asians have to slog through the harder road, either.

Sotomayor already admitted that AA amounts to a special door open only to certain groups and she is very supportive of this special door.

Whites and Asians in the non-Ten Percent group of applicants can easily achieve higher PAS scores than blacks and Hispanics and be admitted in much greater numbers in any given year, which is no doubt why the UT plan passed Constitutional muster.

That is because the high schools are themselves very different when it comes to academic performance. 10% in a bad inner city school might be equivalent to 30% in a good school. Which means that many applicants failing the 10% threshold in good schools will be academically superior to many of those admitted under 10% program and certainly superior to those failing the 10% threshold from poorly performing schools.
That does not mean that the so-called "holistic review" is not discriminating by race (i.e there would be more whites and Asians admitted if they weren't). If it it wasn't discriminating by race there'd be no reason to have it in the first place.

And "passing constitutional muster" does not mean much given how political SCOTUS has become. Sotomayor and Ginsburg even think that constitution means that states can't ban racial preferences.

 

[laughing dog]

I'm shocked, shocked to find these pro-AA tirades are based ignorance of the facts.

FIFY.

Only the kneejerk, anti-AAers misconstrued the facts of the case, so you are wrong again.

By the way, is there any chance Texas could ban racial preferences through a referendum like Michigan and California did?

You have your SJW cause. Move to Texas and start the revolution.

 

[Colonel Sanders]

Law school is fucking brutal

Just a quick aside here... no it really isn't. That is such a myth. I speak as somebody who went through law school and is a lawyer today. My sister went through medical school and is a doctor today. Her schooling was FAR FAR FAR harder than mine. And my articling was a cake walk next to her residency.

Don't let lawyers impress you with how smart they are and how hard law school it. The hardest part of law school is getting in, and that is no exageration. My undergrad in neuropsych was far far far harder that law school.

Law school is harder for some than others. It took me a long time to get over the fact that law school was much more about being tested on a narrow set of skills than it was in learning how to actually practice law in the real world. I really struggled with it for the first two years until after my second year when I went and worked for a solo practice lawyer who did criminal and PI that summer. He'd been an attorney for 30+ years and a superior court judge for six. He had a great sense of humor and was a really different type of guy than most of my professors and the two walking nightmares I'd interned for the year previous at a mid-sized firm here in SoCal. I might have quit the whole thing entirely were it not for that experience.

Law school and the bar requires a kind of mentality that I always thought of as making the best effort possible at doing what everyone else was doing... bah. Suffice it to say I fucking hated law school.