Law School Offers Therapy Following SCOTUS Affirmative Action Ruling
Leftist activists, politicians, and academics have reacted with outrage and dismay following a series of U.S. Supreme Court decisions over the past several days. One ruling in particular has caused significant turmoil on the nation’s college campuses.
In a pair of split decisions last week, the high court’s conservative majority struck down policies in place at Harvard University and the University of North Carolina that prioritized the race of applicants in the admissions process.
Although the decision allows colleges to weigh “an applicant’s discussion of how race affected his or her life, be it through discrimination, inspiration, or otherwise,” it determined that the colleges violated the Constitution’s equal protection clause prohibiting discrimination based on race.
While many Americans heralded the opinion as a win for all students hoping to enter college based on their accomplishments and not their skin color, some critics on the left reacted with the soft bigotry of low expectations, essentially arguing that Black students would not be able to succeed without a head start guaranteed by the government.
For representatives in the Boston University School of Law’s Student Government Association, the Supreme Court ruling was so offensive that they believed students would suffer from mental health emergencies as a result of hearing it.
The organization sent an email to students who are ostensibly being taught to practice law, reminding them that the university “also offers a number of wellness resources that are willing and able to help students navigate these times.”
The message went on to make the leftist argument that Black students need preferential treatment in order to achieve success, arguing that a “colorblind” approach to admissions would essentially doom certain minorities to failure.
Writing about the court’s majority, the student government body argued that they “went so far as to say that the race-based admission system uses race as a negative and operates it as a stereotype, adding: “They may couch their opinion in legal jargon, but we all know what this opinion aims to do: advocate for a ‘colorblind’ admissions process.”
Whereas civil rights icon Martin Luther King Jr. dreamed of a society in which Black Americans would be judged on the content of their character, modern leftists seem insistent that they instead only be considered for the color of their skin.
