EXTRA! EXTRA! More Discrimination…

[NOTE: I’ve played around with this post a bit. Thus this version may be slightly different from what you read earlier, if you read this earlier.]

[NOTE 2: This post has been UPDATED]

We interrupt our ongoing, 24/7 coverage of liberals going nuts over the recent Supreme Court decisions (Hobby Lobby and Wheaton College) that spared a few Christians from being thrown into the lions den of Obamacare’s contraceptive mandate to bring you news of additional discrimination of a more traditional and familiar sort. In the Fisher case, you will recall, the Supremes voted 7-1 to instruct the Fifth Circuit to apply strict scrutiny to the University of Texas’s racial preferences.

Now a three judge panel of the Fifth Circuit has gone through the motions of doing so, and once again approved the university’s discrimination against Asians, whites, and members of other unpreferred racial and ethnic groups in favor of admitting even more blacks and Hispanics who are deemed to provide more “diversity.” (The opinion can be found here; good summaries are here and here.)

Finally, here’s a highly unsolicited suggestion for Ms. Fisher and her lawyers regarding their upcoming appeal. Perhaps she should add to her complaint this time around 1) that UT’s bleats about the necessity of “diversity” ring hollow because the University has been totally oblivious to the “diversity” that preferential admission of transgender students, male-identified women, and women-identified men would no doubt provide, and 2) that her own rejection because of her race might ever so slighltly have increased the possibility of her having an unwanted pregnancy. (The cause and effect relationship here may be somewhat remote and difficult to fathom, but not notably more so than the relationship between adding a few more blacks and HIspanics and thereby increasing “diversity.”) With those additions, liberals and liberal justices might be much more sympathetic to her argument.

UPDATE 16 July

I have expanded on these remarks a bit on Minding The Campus today, here.

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