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Here is the eighty-first article in our Republicans on Parade series, featuring individuals who personify what the Republican Party has become. Today\u2019s honoree is Texas incompetent, Abigail Fisher. She is so honored for her Republican approach to college admissions.<\/font><\/p>\n At stake is the claim made by Abigail Fisher, now 25, who hails from a wealthy suburb of Houston called Sugar Land, that she was deprived of her rightful admission at UT Austin because, in her view, some person of color who didn\u2019t deserve it stole it from her.<\/font><\/p>\n Throughout her now seven-year campaign to make the school pay for not letting her in, Fisher has never been able to produce any evidence that the school tossed her application to make room for a less qualified minority applicant. That\u2019s because, as UT Austin has maintained throughout this ordeal, Fisher was never<\/em><\/span> getting in to their school. Fisher\u2019s GPA and SAT scores weren\u2019t high enough<\/a><\/font>, and she didn\u2019t have enough external accomplishments to convince the school to give her a shot otherwise. As Pro Publica explained at the time<\/a><\/font>:<\/font><\/p>\n It\u2019s true that the university, for whatever reason, offered provisional admission to some students with lower test scores and grades than Fisher. Five of those students were black or Latino.<\/a><\/font> Forty-two were white.<\/a><\/font><\/p>\n Neither Fisher nor Blum mentioned those 42 applicants in interviews. Nor did they acknowledge the 168 black and Latino students with grades as good as or better than Fisher\u2019s who were also denied entry into the university that year.<\/font><\/p>\n Fisher\u2019s case only makes sense if you assume that people of color are inherently less worthy than white people\u2026<\/font><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Inserted from <Alternet<\/a>><\/p>\n From Fisher we learn that for Republicans, the best approach to college admissions is racism. Sadly, when the case was argued, comments from SCROTUS\u2019 Fascist Five Injustices, indicate that they agree with her.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Here is the eighty-first article in our Republicans on Parade series, featuring individuals who personify what the Republican Party has become. Today\u2019s honoree is Texas incompetent, Abigail Fisher. She is so honored for her Republican approach to college admissions. Wednesday, the Supreme Court heard arguments in what is easily the most baffling case it\u2019s going […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18304","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18304"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18304\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
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Wednesday, the Supreme Court heard arguments in what is easily the most baffling case it\u2019s going to hear this session, yet another attack on affirmative action policies at state universities<\/a><\/font>, in this case the University of Texas at Austin. If ever there was a case that has no business in front of the high court, it is this one. The suit is a nuisance suit, it\u2019s poorly argued, it\u2019s disingenuous, it\u2019s been heard before and, to make everything even more bizarre, the plaintiff\u2019s claim to injury is demonstrably untrue. This is a case that should have been laughed out of court years ago, but instead, this is the second time \u2014 second time! \u2014 it\u2019s being presented in front of the Supreme Court.<\/font><\/p>\n