News from within the empire - From a leftist perspective
We need to dismantle elitist institutions and stop treating education as something to be rationed and hoarded. The entire debate with affirmative action is about rationing bourgeois education due to artificially created scarcity.
Having all the brain power of society so incredibly concentrated instead of dispersed at institutions across the country has to be less efficient than a more egalitarian system (although ill recant if there's data to the contrary).
Good take. I’ve seen so many liberals express apathy towards this ruling, or say that the SC should bar legacy admissions, or that ending AA is tantamount to ending racism. All of which, to me, miss the point entirely. This case really shows that the US believes education ought to be a walled garden. One where you have to prove your worth to the owning class in order to enter. This ruling closes a very small door on the three foot thick wall surrounding the garden of education. Liberals would like to believe they can make a truly equitable system of admissions that can somehow undo the injustices faced by minorities, but there cannot be a purely meritocratic system of education while there is capital-based access to it, nor should there be. Such a system cannot allow for this access because education is too liberatory.