The View got messy this morning during a lengthy discussion about the Supreme Court’s ruling on affirmative action, which will decide if race-conscious admissions at Harvard and the University of North Carolina are unlawful. In both cases, plaintiffs allege Asian American students were discriminated against under affirmative action.
As SCOTUS looks like it’s preparing to overturn the decades-long affirmative action precedent, The View was split, with Sunny Hostin and Whoopi Goldberg warning of the dangers of such a ruling and Sara Haines defending the Asian American students affected by admissions practices.
According to The New York Times, if the Supreme Court rules that race-conscious admissions are unlawful, it could “jeopardize affirmative action at colleges and universities around the nation, particularly elite institutions, decreasing the representation of Black and Latino students and bolstering the number of white and Asian ones.”
Hostin argued that the case against Harvard is “intellectually dishonest” because of its basis on an argument “that Asian Americans are being discriminated against,” pointing to statistics showing “the majority of Asian Americans support race-conscious admissions.”
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