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There is an Axios article out that reports an overwhelming majority of Americans feel that the Supreme Court decision to ban race-based admissions was correct. Axios breaks support for the decision down by race. Not entirely surprisingly Blacks are the racial group that has the largest percentage believing it was a bad decision: 48%. But that means that 52% support the decision -- which I think it important.
Affirmative action was a policy that was either cynical or well-meaning. But regardless, it supported the "soft bigotry of low expectations". And this tarnished the success of any who did, or were perceived to have, receive(d) unearned preferential treatment. That 52% of Black adults understand this is very good given the group pressure in the Age of DEI to hold fast to the "victim hierarchy". That, no doubt, accounts for 48% of Black adults saying that the ban on race-based admissions is bad. I cannot believe that all of those Black adults who say the ban is bad are blind to how Affirmative Action depreciates their own accomplishments. And I certainly don't believe that 48% of Black adults require preferential treatment to be successful. Over time I expect that support for the Supreme Court decision will only grow. The only headwind is DEI orthodoxy and efforts to achieve race-based admissions by other means.
The less hopeful aspect of the Axios report is that fewer Asians than Hispanics or Whites see the ban as good. I find this curious as Asians were most adversely affected by race-based admission practices scrutinized by the Court. I don't know why Asians would be less supportive of the decision unless they feared that expressing their support would somehow make them even more of a target?
Regardless, this is good news and it will only get better if we can root out DEI.
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I remember reading in Clarence Thomas' book how Affirmative Action created a liability for him. People would assume that he hadn't earned his place in the university, and afterwards, they were skeptical about the truth of his high qualifications. Other highly regarded black professionals have said the same: they wanted to be accepted on their own merit.
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I don't know if Doctor Ben Carson has said anything specifically but my information sources over a long period of time tell me this has had a negative effect on black medical practitioners for a long time.
Now, of course, more recent actions a la Covid pandemic has smoothed this out so that the distrust applies across all medical institutions and personnel.
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So. 48 % of blacks are of a …YOU owe me variety .
This is not good.
Thank God for the 52 %. Lots of work to be done to undo the corrupting of the left.
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Happily I don’t think that is the total composition of the 48%. As Scott Adams points out, pretty regularly 25% of poll responders are idiots. (That explains why 28% of whites thought the Court decision was bad. ) So you focus on the remainder to see the real distribution. That makes “thinking” support for decision even better.
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Asia is big, and populated by many different peoples. Lumping them all together isn't very helpful.
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