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Wednesday’s oral argument in the Supreme Court over affirmative action at the University of Texas had barely concluded before the Internet lit up with “shock horror” reactions to something Justice Antonin Scalia said.
Mother Jones reported  Scalia ’s comments under this headline: “Justice Scalia Suggests Blacks Belong at ‘Slower’ Colleges. Yes   he  really said that.”
No   he  didn’t  if that headline implies that Scalia believes all black students belong at “slower” colleges.
 He  was addressing Gregory Garre  a lawyer for the University of Texas  who was defending the university’s policy of counting race as one factor in a “holistic” review of applicants (which also includes factors such as extracurricular activities  socioeconomic background and “hardships overcome”).
It’s silly for advocates of affirmative action to dissemble about this. And it’s equally silly to suggest that  Scalia  was being racist when  he  clumsily invoked the mismatch theory.
Wednesday’s oral argument in the Supreme Court over affirmative action at the University of Texas had barely concluded before the Internet lit up with “shock horror” reactions to something Justice Antonin Scalia said.
Mother Jones reported  Scalia ’s comments under this headline: “Justice Scalia Suggests Blacks Belong at ‘Slower’ Colleges. Yes   he  really said that.”
No   he  didn’t  if that headline implies that [TGT] believes all black students belong at “slower” colleges.
 [TGT]  was addressing Gregory Garre  a lawyer for the University of Texas  who was defending the university’s policy of counting race as one factor in a “holistic” review of applicants (which also includes factors such as extracurricular activities  socioeconomic background and “hardships overcome”).
It’s silly for advocates of affirmative action to dissemble about this. And it’s equally silly to suggest that  Scalia  was being racist when  he  clumsily invoked the mismatch theory.