MERIT TRUMPS RACE
The Great America Show
Fawcett Strategies
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🗓️ 30 June 2023
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
Heather Mac Donald says that if colleges obey the Supreme Court’s ruling, it will do a great deal toward fixing racial divisions. The end of Affirmative Action just means the same number of Blacks will go to college as before, but will go to colleges that they’re academically qualified for rather than catapulted into colleges they’re not. Blacks will now be admitted on the same basis as White and Asian students based on academic qualifications. We’ve pretended that skills don’t matter when they do and now merit matters not race. Black culture is not teaching self control at home, the importance of education, to pay attention, to take textbooks home and study. Until that culture changes, the skills gap won’t close. We’re seeing a pushback to woke policies. People aren’t cowed by being called a racist. They want their doctors to have medical qualifications not racial qualifications. And it’s not transphobic to say children should not have their innocence stripped away by premature, unnecessary teachings of sexuality, much less perverse sexuality. Mac Donald says there should be an across the board boycott of Disney given its embrace of premature sexualization of children.
GUEST: HEATHER MAC DONALD, AUTHOR “WHEN RACE TRUMPS MERIT”
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everybody, I'm Lou Dobs, this is the Great America Show, good to have you with us. |
| 0:08.6 | The Supreme Court this week ruling colleges and universities may no longer use affirmative |
| 0:13.6 | action in their admissions process. |
| 0:16.8 | In a six-three opinion written by Chief Justice John Roberts, the Justice's outlawed affirmative |
| 0:22.5 | action, and then so doing overturn cases going back almost a half-century. |
| 0:28.2 | For almost a half-century, those cases made racial preferences legal. |
| 0:33.2 | The six-justices rule that skills, lessons learned, and challenges overcome are paramount |
| 0:40.0 | in deciding whether a person is admitted to a college or university, not race. |
| 0:45.9 | As you would probably expect President Biden isn't happy, and he went before cameras |
| 0:50.9 | to say he's not happy that colleges will now have to accept students based on their |
| 0:56.4 | merit. |
| 0:57.4 | He attacked the Supreme Court as he did so, saying this isn't a normal court, a curious |
| 1:03.4 | thing to say. |
| 1:05.1 | President Biden gave his remarks shortly after the ruling came down, and he seemed to |
| 1:09.8 | have gotten a little bit confused about affirmative action, what it is, and where he actually stands |
| 1:16.3 | on it. |
| 1:17.3 | And I strongly disagree with the Court's decision. |
| 1:21.8 | Because affirmative action is so misunderstood, I want to be clear, make sure everybody's |
| 1:26.0 | clear about what the law has been, and what it has not been until today. |
| 1:32.3 | Many people wrongly believe that affirmative action allows unqualified students, unqualified |
| 1:37.8 | students to be admitted ahead of qualified students. |
| 1:41.0 | This is not how college admissions work, rather colleges set out standards for admission, |
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