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Biden urges colleges to weigh poverty, adversity after affirmative action ruling
NY Post ^ | 06/29/2023 | Steven Nelson

Posted on 06/29/2023 12:02:07 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27

WASHINGTON — President Biden implored colleges and universities Thursday to consider applicants’ socioeconomic status and their experience with overcoming adversity — including racial discrimination — after the Supreme Court ruled that race cannot be used to determine who is admitted.

“Today I want to offer some guidance to our nation’s colleges,” Biden said at the White House shortly after the ruling. “What I propose for consideration is a new standard where colleges take into account the adversity a student has overcome when selecting among qualified applicants.”

The Supreme Court ruled in lawsuits against Harvard University and the University of North Carolina that using race as a qualification violates the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment.

The Harvard case was brought on the grounds of discrimination against Asian Americans.

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What a useless piece of crap
1 posted on 06/29/2023 12:02:07 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
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If he had his way college, rent, food, cars, internet would all be free for minorities, paid for by Whitey, who would pay twice: in taxes, and by not getting those things free.


2 posted on 06/29/2023 12:05:43 PM PDT by I want the USA back (A man is not a woman. A woman is not a man. There is no in-between or undefined middle. Cat = cat.)
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Anything to trash the system


3 posted on 06/29/2023 12:06:31 PM PDT by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )
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What a useless piece of crap
“Today I want to offer some guidance to our nation’s colleges,” Biden said


Well he was a professor at Penn...
/s


4 posted on 06/29/2023 12:10:24 PM PDT by hanamizu
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To: ChicagoConservative27; Red Badger

“The Harvard case was brought on the grounds of discrimination against Asian Americans”

Biden then went on to say, “Don’t worry academia. You can still reject them white folk. Just let a few more chinks in than before.”


5 posted on 06/29/2023 12:10:37 PM PDT by Cletus.D.Yokel (Cracker...)
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RE: What a useless piece of crap

Agree.

Want him to have that flushed feeling.


6 posted on 06/29/2023 12:12:07 PM PDT by frank ballenger (You have summoned up a thundercloud. You're gonna hear from me. Anthem by Leonard Cohen)
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Colleges and universities should consider cognitive ability and educational preparation.

Poverty and adversity would seem to be irrelevant, just as skin color is irrelevant.

7 posted on 06/29/2023 12:12:33 PM PDT by NorthMountain (... the right of the peopIe to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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What a useless piece of crap

Yep--just like the what faux doc Jill finds in his diaper each morning.

8 posted on 06/29/2023 12:18:40 PM PDT by DaBroasta ("An armed society is a polite society" Heinlein)
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The case can be made for having a few spot for Brite Spot Potentials. Those few kids that had to do quite a bit more just to get where they are- and It’s Not Color-

Socio-economic issues - that’s not the kids fault
Physical limitations - also not the kids fault

Lots of private schools have had those kinds of quiet in-place policies for many many years-

Yep, you and I have donated to support those things.

As Plato outlined, to very loosely get the point across, you never know where a good idea will come from.

You all know those few kids, that you recognize have just earned a bit of a break to continue on towards success-
The trouble is how to do it.


9 posted on 06/29/2023 12:19:20 PM PDT by Macoozie (Handcuffs and Orange Jumpsuits)
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Affirmative Action does not belong in a just society. This only makes the receivers of this priveledge lazy, but they expect this same treatment the rest of their lives.
When I was in the service my E5 promotion was held up due to the Department of the Army decided there were not enough blacks being promoted so mine had to put on hold for about 6 weeks. The captain of our company was black and he earned his rank by working for it. He decided to promote the worst blacks in the company knowing he would have to bust them down in a month or two because they would not stay out of trouble.


10 posted on 06/29/2023 12:19:51 PM PDT by wbslws
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A Dem voter who was a coworker of mine got back from the main post office after unsuccessfully pursuing a loss of mail dispute with the staff. Wasted a couple of hours.

He said everyone at each level was disturbingly stupid and totally incompetent and unable to understand basic problems.
Plus items for other customers were discovered to be shelved wrong, mislabeled for deliveries and lost. Like his package.

He admitted “If they were all hired for affirmative action at every post office and every level of staffing due to being hired for that reason and this is being done all over the country for all kinds of jobs and businesses, then the quality of everything is all going downhill.”
But he still went back to voting always Democrat.


11 posted on 06/29/2023 12:19:52 PM PDT by frank ballenger (You have summoned up a thundercloud. You're gonna hear from me. Anthem by Leonard Cohen)
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The Rats will find one way or another around this ruling.

Laws, the constitution doesn’t apply to them.


12 posted on 06/29/2023 12:21:06 PM PDT by aquila48 (Do not let them make you "care" ! Guilting you is how they control you. )
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Translation: millions of illegal aliens are going to university instead of your kid, and YOU ARE GOING TO PAY FOR IT!


13 posted on 06/29/2023 12:21:23 PM PDT by AuntB (Trump is our Ben Franklin - Brilliant, Boisterous, Brave and ALL AMERICAN!)
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Nice. Our scumbag Chief Executive telling our colleges and universities to find a way around the SCOTUS ruling.


14 posted on 06/29/2023 12:42:47 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (I don’t like to think before I say something...I want to be just as surprised as everyone else.)
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Now an applicant will have to try to outvictim the others. That seems like another poor way to select the best candidates.


15 posted on 06/29/2023 1:10:17 PM PDT by HartleyMBaldwin
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What about wires into shell entities?


16 posted on 06/29/2023 1:20:44 PM PDT by wac3rd (Somewhere in Hell, Ted Kennedy snickers....)
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“Today I want to offer some guidance to our nation’s colleges,” Biden said at the White House shortly after the ruling.

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Can’t even guide himself off a stage.


17 posted on 06/29/2023 1:27:44 PM PDT by Graybeard58 (Celebrating 42 years of sobriety this year, thank you Heavenly Father.)
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“What I propose for consideration is a new standard where colleges take into account the adversity a student has overcome when selecting among qualified applicants.”

Dr. Buttkiss will, be your brain surgery today. Is he qualified? Well, he over came a stutter and hang nails to gain admission to medical school!

18 posted on 06/29/2023 1:44:18 PM PDT by Islander7 (There is no septic system so vile, so filthy, the left won't drink from to further their agenda.)
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So he’s saying that all blacks are poor and grew up in the ghetto and can’t make it in America without affirmative action because of all that evil discrimination.

Truth: the left created affirmative action to keep blacks poor and in the ghetto so they could be milked for votes and money.


19 posted on 06/30/2023 5:46:40 AM PDT by I want the USA back (A man is not a woman. A woman is not a man. There is no in-between or undefined middle. Cat = cat.)
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You know the biggest adversity black people face? It’s having other blacks telling them that studying and achievement is ‘acting white’.


20 posted on 06/30/2023 5:49:05 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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