{"id":2576,"date":"2023-07-03T12:08:58","date_gmt":"2023-07-03T16:08:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.commonsensesociety.org\/?p=2576"},"modified":"2023-07-19T10:53:10","modified_gmt":"2023-07-19T14:53:10","slug":"affirmative-action-is-dead-in-u-s-universities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.commonsensesociety.org\/nl\/2023\/07\/03\/affirmative-action-is-dead-in-u-s-universities\/","title":{"rendered":"Affirmative Action is Dead in U.S. Universities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>EXCERPT<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:25px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The Supreme Court\u2019s 6-3 decision striking down the discriminatory admissions practices of America\u2019s leading Universities is a direct consequence of Donald Trump\u2019s still-reverberating 2016 election win. Trump\u2019s subsequently-fulfilled promise to put genuine constitutional conservatives on the court has won another symbolic victory, after the court\u2019s historic overturning of&nbsp;<em>Roe v Wade&nbsp;<\/em>last year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Unlike&nbsp;<em>Roe,&nbsp;<\/em>however, it remains to be seen whether or not this decision will substantially alter either admissions practices, the culture of American higher education, or the dynamics of racial politics more broadly. Whilst it is true that on face value this is an important victory for common sense and a fair society, there are three reasons why&nbsp;<em>Students for Fair Admissions, Inc. v. President and Fellows of Harvard College&nbsp;<\/em>may prove to be a less consequential decision than we first expect it to be.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2022  \u2022  \u2022<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The death of affirmative action is a win to celebrate long into the night. Lest it be a Pyrrhic victory, proponents of sanity in education best swiftly re-arm for the still-raging war at hand. The real work, I think, is yet to commence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:25px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><em><em>Ben Crocker is a research fellow at&nbsp;<em>Common Sense Society,&nbsp;<\/em>in Washington, D.C.<\/em><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:25px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Originally published in <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.spectator.com.au\/2023\/07\/affirmative-action-is-dead-in-us-universities\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Spectator Australia<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The real work, I think, is yet to commence.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":2575,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-op-ed"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Affirmative Action is Dead in U.S. Universities - Common Sense Society<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"People want their nations to reflect their values and serve their interests. 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