Brilliant Twitter responses to Justice Scalia’s bigoted comments — StayMadAbby

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi on Friday called for Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia to recuse himself from any case before the high court involving discrimination.

“There are those who maintain that it doesn’t benefit African Americans to get them into the University of Texas where they don’t do nicely, as opposed to having them go to a less-advanced school, a slower-track school where they do well”, Scalia said December 9.

“I’m just not impressed by the fact that the University of Texas may have fewer”, he said. Of course, some of the people who qualify based on their performance not only belong in the school, but come out ready for the world regardless of their skin color.

Heriot, a University of San Diego law professor, blamed race-conscious policies for producing “unmarketable communications majors”, “underwater basket-weaving majors” and “grievance studies majors”. Black or African-American students make up approximately four-percent of the UT-Austin undergraduate body. There is some research, however, on how minority students fare as science majors at different universities.

“I have great African-American friendships”, Trump said. Mario L. Small & Christopher Winship, Black Students’ Graduation from Elite Colleges: Institutional Characteristics and Between-Institution Differences, 36 SOC. SCI. RES. 1257, 1272 (2007).

The Nevada senator said the idea that black students should be pushed out of top universities into lesser schools is “unacceptable”.

At the crux of this debate is the mismatch theory, which is controversial to say the least.

Scalia was referencing the mismatch theory explained in an amicus brief by UCLA law professor Richard Sander, the Washington Post reports. However, the university said she would not have been accepted even if no affirmative action program were in place.

“When the Court declared a constitutional right to homosexual sodomy, we were assured that the case had nothing, nothing at all to do with whether the government must give formal recognition to any relationship that homosexual persons seek to enter”, Scalia said.

Both comments came in the context of cases relating to the application of affirmative action in college admissions.

They also stressed that affirmative action is “just one part” of a larger effort to achieve social justice in scientific fields.

In terms of raw numbers, it’s probably true that most of the black scientists come from schools that are less selective than the University of Texas at Austin. Yet this media coverage neglected the illuminating appearance the two commissioners made Monday at the Heritage Foundation – one where they fleshed out their views on affirmative action and delivered their own provocative remarks about race on campus.

“We reject the premise that the presence of minority students and the existence of diversity need to be justified, but meanwhile segregation in physics is tacitly accepted as normal or good”, the scientists wrote. Its brief was filed on behalf of the Black Student Alliance (BSA) and the Black Ex-Student Alliance (BEST).