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Maybe not but it gives people the right to sue if they find out that it's still going on I would think. I guess they would have to prove they were harmed and as a direct result of the schools race based application process.

That's what I think too.

The best that can happen with the ruling is that it provides a legal basis for stringing up those who get caught by their buster-browns.

The other thing it does is provide at least the beginning of a legal basis for challenging the advancement of university employees on the basis of AA, which is where you will see lawsuits.

I personally know people in that situation. I know one guy who was the only professor qualified to teach a certain class or series of classes but was being paid below his classification to teach them and was told straight up that he wasn't being paid the appropriate scale because there were two other professors in his department (neither of whom was qualified to teach the classes) who were black females and the person in charge (also a black female) wasn't going to pay a white male more than she was paying the black females.

It's been a while since the details were told to me and I may have butchered them to some extent, but that's the gist of that story, the point being that sex/race discrimination happens in universities all the time. Quite out in the open.

IME it's only a matter of time before this decision becomes, "If it's unconstitutional to discriminate on the basis of sex/race for admission, it's also unconstitutional to do it when it comes to employees."

Plus, someone will be a whisteblower somewhere. Somebody is going to secretly record a meeting at Harvard or somewhere in which it is obvious that they still admit on the basis of race.

Having a spouse in academia I can tell you that those people in general think they are above the law because they are a university. Not just Harvard...all of them. They'll be stupid and not careful, because they think they don't have to be, and this ruling will end up providing the basis for the fall that follows their pride. Mark my words.

This post was edited on 7/5/23 at 6:20 am