Unsurprised that the conservative majorty on this Supreme Court struck down affirmative action. I'm Anti-surprised, in fact. They'll likely do the same thing to student debt relief, later today or tomorrow.

It'll take about 3 years to see the full effects of today's decision across the higher education landscape; these justices won't care then, either.

If you want real remedies for centuries of inequity, inequality, and injustice, this court isn't where you need to go.

Hit the ballot box, the city council chambers, or the streets, instead.

What a sad mess.

Gonna try to stay offline for a while today.

Before I go, though, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson's dissent in today's affirmative action decision starts on page 209, here:
https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/22pdf/20-1199_hgdj.pdf

And you should really read it.

When i say 3 years i mean three years. That's the time it will take for for a large enough proportion of current undergrads and grads to matriculate out and the inherent systemic and personal prejudicial biases about race and gender to even more strongly reassert themselves in a clear way in admissions numbers throughout undergraduate, graduate, post graduate programs.

The effects on students' and faculty members' mental and emotional health will be immediate and ongoing, but the details of the extent of systemic picture is only going to be fully visible in about three years.