I would like to see all of the bigots and racists in the country have an opportunity to stand up and wave the bigot flag so we know just exactly who they are.

Affirmative action at the Supreme Court. But what is the argument really about? I'm Scott Ott with Bill Whittle and Stephen Green. This episode of Right Angle brought to you by the members at Bill Whittle.com.

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Ladies and gentlemen, and Bill and Steve, in case you don't fit into either of those categories,

I was reading a Wall Street Journal story that was coverage of five hours of argument before the Supreme Court on Monday of the week we

record this. And the sentence that caught my eye was this one. Liberal justices stressed the

significance of diversity throughout society, while conservatives argued against classifying individuals by race.

And I read that sentence, and my immediate thought was, well, yes. Like, it occurs to me that

diversity throughout society is a good thing, and we gain a lot by it and we shouldn't classify people by race.

And I didn't see the opposition of those two notions.

It seemed like a false dichotomy.

And so I just thought, and I started exploring, I wrote like six pages of notes, all of which are worthless as I tried to noodle through this process.

But basically, you've got plaintiffs coming to the court and saying, hey, the University of North Carolina and Harvard College are both discriminating against Asians, for example, because they're trying to make special provision to get more

blacks students, specifically in Latino students, into the school. And so a highly qualified

Asian student doesn't stand as good of a chance as a highly qualified black student or maybe

even a slightly less qualified black student because

Harvard and UNC both feel like they need to amp up the student body population in those groups.

And as I was thinking about it was like, okay, well, why is it that so-called liberal justices

are even saying diversity is a good thing. That's not what the

case is about. You know, they're not there to decide whether diversity is a good thing or not.

It's a question of constitutionality. So is it okay for these schools to discriminate on the

basis of race in order to achieve some goals that society would find useful.

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