Sotomayor’s logic is incredible! Affirmative Action means that certain minorities are given preferential treatment because of the color of their skin. She argues that the removal of this preferential treatment will unfairly impact these minorities. Of course, she ignores the fact that Affirmative Action, as currently practiced, unfairly impacts non-minorities.
It’s like saying that there is an umpire who uses a big strike zone for Black pitchers and a smaller one for White pitchers. A rule stating that he must use the same strike zone for all pitchers would negatively impact those Black pitchers who are currently gaining an unfair advantage. In other words, removing an unfair advantage disadvantages the ones who have gained from that unfair advantage. It makes my head spin.
Affirmative action assumes that specific groups ARE inferior, because they cannot otherwise achieve demographic proportionate merit based admissions and achievements.
Yep, it’s an automatic “reverse discrimination” circumstance. Considering universities, where there’s only so many admission slots available, if you admit somebody *because* of color you’re, by definition, not admitting somebody because of their color.
Just because there’s more of one color than another currently isn’t something that can be legislated into “correctness”.
You ought to go to a big-league ball game in Japan. If one team pulls way ahead ( a flexible definition) the strike zone suddenly expands for the winning team and contracts for the losing side. The winning team gets struck out on called strikes, the losing team gets walked until thinks get more evened up. Other funky adjustments, too.
How the Japs direct this process is inscrutable.
It's OK to win or lose ... but "Face" must be saved.