The ruling by America’s Supreme Court against affirmative action (Against)
With its decision in Students for Fair Admissions v Harvard, handed down on June 29th, America’s Supreme Court has finally laid affirmative action to rest. University administrators will surely be weeping at the grave. But what these administrators fail to appreciate is that they themselves may be accomplices in the doctrine’s demise. Their weapon of choice was an unusual one: trampling free speech on campus by enacting speech codes, showing bias against students with disfavoured views and disinviting controversial speakers. Unusual, but deadly nonetheless.
At first blush, the two may seem unconnected. The First Amendment protects very different rights than the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment, after all.… Seguir leyendo »