After the Supreme Court banned race-conscious affirmative action, activists filed a complaint, saying legacy admissions helped students who are overwhelmingly rich and white.
  • mohKohn
    2•2 years ago

    This… isn’t world news… Are we going to have to make anime_tiddies all over again?

  • @assassinatedbyCIA@lemmy.worldEnglish
    0•2 years ago

    If SCOTUS thinks it’s discriminatory to select for race then it also stands to reason that it’s discriminatory to select for legacy. In both cases the applicant has as much control over the status as the other.

    • BraveSirZaphod
      1•2 years ago

      The issue is that it was discriminatory on the basis of race, which is explicitly protected in the Constitution. The educational history of your parents is not, nor does the Constitution contain a generic anti-discrimination section.

      This case is apparently attempting to argue that legacy admissions is de facto discrimination in favor of white applicants, which I struggle to imagine they’ll be successful with, particularly with this Court.