(PM.) The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) was met with sharp criticism on Tuesday when it announced they would be advocating for racial discrimination in college admissions.
“BREAKING: We filed an amicus brief today urging the Supreme Court to protect universities’ ability to consider race in college admissions,” read the announcement from the ACLU’s official Twitter account.
BREAKING: We filed an amicus brief today urging the Supreme Court to protect universities’ ability to consider race in college admissions.
Ending these considerations would ignore our country’s present-day racial inequality and threaten diversity on campuses everywhere.
— ACLU (@ACLU) August 1, 2022
According to the Students for Fair Admissions website, they are a nonprofit membership group of more than 20,000 students, parents, and other concerned citizens who believe that racial preferences in college admissions are unfair, unnecessary, and unconstitutional. The ACLU has decided to support Harvard and the University of North Carolina to protect racial discrimination in college admission.
Commenters pointed out the hypocrisy of the ACLU’s decision to advocate for Affirmative Action, a policy that allows colleges and universities to use race as a factor in admissions decisions instead of using merit alone. This practice disproportionately discriminates against Asian Americans due to their race and ethnicity, in favor of other races.
“You’re defending universities that systemically discriminate against poor immigrant Asian applicants,” said psychology professor Geoffrey Miller in a comment. “The @ACLU is betraying every value it used to hold dear, just to raise more money from rich @DNC supporters who want to virtue signal about today’s fashionable cause,” he added
BREAKING: We filed an amicus brief today urging the Supreme Court to protect universities’ ability to consider race in college admissions.
Ending these considerations would ignore our country’s present-day racial inequality and threaten diversity on campuses everywhere.
— ACLU (@ACLU) August 1, 2022
“All students deserve equitable access to higher education,” the ACLU said in their final tweet. The principle of equity means discriminating against individuals based on their race in order to ensure equal group outcomes, as evolutionary biologist Colin Wright points out.
“The @ACLU is actively promoting racism. They no longer care about equal rights for all individuals, only the rights of certain groups. This is a very dark path to start down,” he said.
The @ACLU is actively promoting racism. They no longer care about equal rights for all individuals, only the rights of certain groups. This is a very dark path to start down. https://t.co/DZAPLp85Me
— Colin Wright (@SwipeWright) August 2, 2022
