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Supreme Court Upholds Discrimination

The U.S. Supreme Court (news - web sites) upheld on Monday the University of Michigan's affirmative action policy that favors minorities who apply to its law school.
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They made a 2nd ruling, which struck down the general admissions that gave points based on race. The law school used a different system.
 
From CNN.com frontpage:

The U.S. Supreme Court issued a complex, split decision today on a pair of affirmative action cases involving the University of Michigan's admissions policies. The court upheld the school's use of race as a factor in law school admissions, but said a point system which factored race in undergraduate admissions is unconstitutional.
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Yea, I love how racism can go one way, but not the other.

You can be in hte EXACT same school as me, making the exact same grades, the exact same income, but because 150 years ago politics were a bit different, you get in to programs and get given money I can't. Whoopie.
 
Originally posted by: Elemental007
Yea, I love how racism can go one way, but not the other.

You can be in hte EXACT same school as me, making the exact same grades, the exact same income, but because 150 years ago politics were a bit different, you get in to programs and get given money I can't. Whoopie.
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Yea, those damn blacks and hispanics. They never get any sh!t like us poor ol' white folks.
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Originally posted by: Elemental007
Yea, I love how racism can go one way, but not the other. You can be in hte EXACT same school as me, making the exact same grades, the exact same income, but because 150 years ago politics were a bit different, you get in to programs and get given money I can't. Whoopie.
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a bit different? that's an interesting paraphrase. at best they are a bit different now, over the past 150 years they were fvcked up repulsively.


all i got to say beyond that is God bless the supreme court. 🙂
 
Discrimination is typically thought of as the majority holding back the minority.. in this case it's the majority holding back the majority, putting the minority on a pedastal... I'd probably call that reversed.
 
Relax people. This is realistically the best possible outcome. 30 years ago, quotas were outlawed. And now, point based systems have been outlawed.
 
Originally posted by: joshsquall
Discrimination is typically thought of as the majority holding back the minority.. in this case it's the majority holding back the majority, putting the minority on a pedastal... I'd probably call that reversed.
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I would say you're adding to the definition.....


Dictionary.com😀efinition
5 entries found for Discrimination.
dis·crim·i·na·tion ( P ) Pronunciation Key (d-skrm-nshn)
n.
The act of discriminating.
The ability or power to see or make fine distinctions; discernment.
Treatment or consideration based on class or category rather than individual merit; partiality or prejudice: racial discrimination; discrimination against foreigners.

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dis·crimi·nation·al adj.

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Discrimination

( P ) Discrimination: log in for this definition of Discrimination and other entries in Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary, available only to Dictionary.com Premium members.


Source: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary, © 2002 Merriam-Webster, Inc.


Discrimination

\Dis*crim`i*na"tion\, n. [L. discriminatio the contrasting of opposite thoughts.] 1. The act of discriminating, distinguishing, or noting and marking differences.

To make an anxious discrimination between the miracle absolute and providential. --Trench.

2. The state of being discriminated, distinguished, or set apart. --Sir J. Reynolds.

3. (Railroads) The arbitrary imposition of unequal tariffs for substantially the same service.

A difference in rates, not based upon any corresponding difference in cost, constitutes a case of discrimination. --A. T. Hadley.

4. The quality of being discriminating; faculty of nicely distinguishing; acute discernment; as, to show great discrimination in the choice of means.

5. That which discriminates; mark of distinction.

Syn: Discernment; penetration; clearness; acuteness; judgment; distinction. See Discernment.


Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.


Discrimination

n 1: unfair treatment of a person or group on the basis of prejudice [syn: favoritism, favouritism] 2: the cognitive process whereby differences between two or more stimuli are perceived


Source: WordNet ® 1.6, © 1997 Princeton University

Nothing about majority or minority.

 
No wait a second. Now that I think about it, it is a pretty weak ruling.

Technically, U-M can still keep the point system. They can reduce the points awarded to blacks and Hispanics to 15 from 20, and that would be enough to comply with the SC ruling.

Supreme Court = teh gay
 
well if you wanted to be accurate and unambiguous, you would put "racial discrimination", since the very process of selecting some proper subset of people from a group would have to involve discrimination, by definition. unless it was totally random... but that's just silly.
 
Originally posted by: AlienCraft
Originally posted by: joshsquall
Discrimination is typically thought of as the majority holding back the minority.. in this case it's the majority holding back the majority, putting the minority on a pedastal... I'd probably call that reversed.
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I would say you're adding to the definition.....
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I said "typically thought of," not typically defined as. A majority of polled people will probably associate discrimination with majority vs. minority.
 
They had ot interupt the People's Court for this. Damn NBC almost made me miss the final judgements...
 
Sounds like a good ruling to me. They threw out the arbitrary system but allowed the more thorough system to remain.

If you want to look at this issue fairly the first thing to do is think about what the criteria for determining elegibility should be in the first place ? Test results are a very poor way to decide who gets in, as are high school GPA. Those things measure the school system the student is from as much as they measure the students ability. They also put too much emphasis on easily measurable things like math, science, and less on creativity like art, music, etc. A well balanced university community needs students from all backgrounds and with a variety of skills.
 
Originally posted by: Piano Man
Originally posted by: Elemental007
Yea, I love how racism can go one way, but not the other.

You can be in hte EXACT same school as me, making the exact same grades, the exact same income, but because 150 years ago politics were a bit different, you get in to programs and get given money I can't. Whoopie.
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Yea, those damn blacks and hispanics. They never get any sh!t like us poor ol' white folks.
rolleye.gif
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Preach on Brotha'!

 
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