{"id":1722526,"date":"2022-11-03T07:03:05","date_gmt":"2022-11-03T11:03:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1722526"},"modified":"2022-11-03T07:03:36","modified_gmt":"2022-11-03T11:03:36","slug":"defenders-of-race-based-college-admissions-cant-explain-its-educational-benefits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/defenders-of-race-based-college-admissions-cant-explain-its-educational-benefits\/","title":{"rendered":"Defenders Of Race-Based College Admissions Can\u2019t Explain Its Educational Benefits"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdefenders-of-race-based-college-admissions-cant-explain-its-educational-benefits%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1722526&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday heard\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/supreme-court-to-consider-challenges-to-race-conscious-admissions-policies-at-harvard-unc-11643035684?mod=article_inline\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">two cases<\/a>\u00a0challenging affirmative action-based admissions policies at the University of North Carolina (UNC) and Harvard University. The hearing was sometimes tense, and justices asked both sides tough questions. U.S. Solicitor General Elizabeth Prelogar and lawyers representing the two schools struggled to answer three key questions.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Students for Fair Admissions (SFFA), a group founded by activist Edward Blum, brought both lawsuits, alleging the race-based admissions policies at UNC and Harvard discriminate against white and Asian American applicants. Both schools and their defenders argued that \u201cseeking the educational benefits of diversity is a compelling interest of the highest order and that universities may consider all aspects of an applicant\u2019s background [including race] to build a thriving campus community.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p> What Is Diversity? <\/p>\n<p>When Justice Clarence Thomas <a href=\"https:\/\/www.supremecourt.gov\/oral_arguments\/argument_transcripts\/2022\/21-707_9o6b.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">asked<\/a> Ryan Park, North Carolina\u2019s solicitor general who defends UNC, what diversity is, Park had difficulty coming up with a clear and concise definition other than\u00a0saying\u00a0it is about a \u201cbroadly diverse set of criteria that extends to all different backgrounds and perspectives and not solely limited to race.\u201d When Justice Brett Kavanaugh <a href=\"https:\/\/www.supremecourt.gov\/oral_arguments\/argument_transcripts\/2022\/21-707_9o6b.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">queried<\/a> Park whether UNC would consider an applicant\u2019s religion under his diversity definition, Park admitted that, unlike the race question, there is no box to check for one\u2019s religion on the application form. <\/p>\n<p>Harvard\u2019s lawyer, Seth Waxman, also acknowledged that Harvard\u2019s holistic admission process doesn\u2019t consider an applicant\u2019s religious beliefs. Park and Waxman have difficulty defining diversity because they know it is politically correct to speak of diversity in broad terms. But in practice, the schools they represent care about only one diversity aspect: racial quotas.<\/p>\n<p>Justice Neil Gorsuch <a href=\"https:\/\/www.supremecourt.gov\/oral_arguments\/argument_transcripts\/2022\/21-707_9o6b.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">pressed<\/a> Park: \u201cHow do you distinguish between what this court has said is impermissible, a quota, with what you argue should be permissible going forward, which is diversity. How can you do diversity without taking account of numbers?\u201d Park wasn\u2019t able to provide a satisfactory answer other than insisting that UNC achieves \u201cdiversity\u201d by looking at the individual applicant through its holistic process, which includes race as one of many factors.<\/p>\n<p>Gorsuch responded that diversity had been used \u201cas a subterfuge for racial quotas\u201d on college campuses. Prelogar, the U.S. solicitor general, proved Gorsuch was right when she\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.supremecourt.gov\/oral_arguments\/argument_transcripts\/2022\/20-1199_6537.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">warned<\/a>\u00a0the court that \u201ca blanket ban on race-conscious admissions would cause racial diversity to plummet at many of our nation\u2019s leading educational institutions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>None of these diversity advocates were interested in discussing that college campuses, including at UNC and Harvard, lack intellectual and ideological diversity. For example, Harvard\u2019s own\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/less-than-two-percent-of-harvard-faculty-is-conservative-survey\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">survey<\/a>\u00a0shows that less than 2 percent of its faculty identifies as conservative. Alan Dershowitz, a professor emeritus at Harvard Law School,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/less-than-two-percent-of-harvard-faculty-is-conservative-survey\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">said<\/a>\u00a0in an interview that Harvard\u2019s \u201cemphasis on race and gender may well reduce academic diversity.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Harvard is not diverse in many other ways too.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.supremecourt.gov\/oral_arguments\/argument_transcripts\/2022\/20-1199_6537.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Cameron Norris<\/a>, attorney for SFFA, states that about \u201c9 percent of incoming freshman at Harvard are conservatives. Harvard is 82 percent wealthy. There are 23 rich students for every one low-income student on campus.\u201d Yet to those in charge of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The only right thing the Supreme Court should do now, in the\u00a0words\u00a0of The Wall Street Journal editorial board, is to uphold &#8216;America\u2019s principle of equality under the law, by telling [supporters of affirmative action] their time is up.&#8217;\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":536,"featured_media":1722529,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[546],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1722526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1722526","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/536"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1722526"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1722526\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1722529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1722526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1722526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1722526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}