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Saved - September 26, 2023 at 5:01 PM

@taylorswift13 - Taylor Swift

I’m absolutely terrified that this is where we are - that after so many decades of people fighting for women’s rights to their own bodies, today’s decision has stripped us of that.

@MichelleObama - Michelle Obama

My thoughts on the Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe v. Wade.

Saved - April 4, 2023 at 6:43 PM

@marcorubio - Marco Rubio

Today is a bad day for all of us & we are all going to regret it for a very long time

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Today is a bad day for American politics. The charges against Trump are ridiculous and set a dangerous precedent. Any prosecutor can now go after someone in the other party without consequences. This new normal allows manipulation of the law to take someone down. The charges are based on a misdemeanor with an expired statute of limitation, linked to a federal charge that the government chose not to pursue. It's political, but it's more than that. It's poison to our country and will permanently change politics in America. We will regret this day for a very long time.
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Speaker 0: Put aside for a moment whether you like Trump or not like him, whether you're for him or not for him. Today is a bad day for all of us. Today, American politics crosses a line that it's never gonna come back from. After today after today, especially on the basis of how ridiculous these charges are, after today, Every prosecutor in America that wants to make a name for themselves now is gonna have permission to basically go after someone in the other party. What's gonna stop some Republican or conservative prosecutor now from saying, well, now I'm gonna go after Joe Biden or his family or Bill Clinton or Hillary Clinton or Nancy Pelosi, whoever. Gonna stop him? Nothing's gonna stop him, because today, we set a new normal. Today, we set the new normal that if you really want to take someone down, Nothing should stop you. You should be able to manipulate the law any way you want to charge someone. And what really is damaging is that the charges here are absurd. You're talking about a misdemeanor. If proven, a misdemeanor that had a statute of limitation that expired. So this prosecutor has decided to link it to a federal charge, election law charge that the federal government decided not to pursue, and all of it built on the testimony of a The money of a convicted liar, of a convicted liar. And so people see this for what it is. It's political, but it's more than just political. It's poison to our country. It will permanently change politics in America forever. We are going to regret this day, whether you like Trump or not. We are gonna regret this day for a very long time. We are setting a new normal, a damaging new normal, that is going to disfigure American politics and put us on a destructive road. We are gonna regret this day for a very, very long time.
Saved - June 29, 2023 at 2:55 PM

@nytimes - The New York Times

Breaking News: The Supreme Court rejected affirmative action at Harvard and UNC. The major ruling curtails race-conscious college admissions in the U.S., all but ensuring that elite institutions become whiter and more Asian and less Black and Latino. https://nyti.ms/4347Xrx https://nyti.ms/4347Xrx

Affirmative Action: Supreme Court Strikes Down Race-Based Admissions at Harvard and U.N.C. In disavowing race as a factor in achieving educational diversity, the court all but ensured that the student population at the campuses of elite institutions will become whiter and more Asian and less Black and Latino. nytimes.com
Saved - June 29, 2023 at 2:31 PM

@Travis_in_Flint - 🇺🇸Travis🇺🇸

Just In: the Supreme Court has rules that race based admissions violates the 14th amendment. This deals a major blow to affirmative action. The case started in 2014 when students from Harvard and UNC were rejected based on race. The schools won in federal court, but the SCOTUS dealt them a major blow today. What will schools do without being able to be racist against whites and Asians?

Saved - June 29, 2023 at 6:07 PM

@AbrahamHamadeh - Abe Hamadeh

The left will ignore the Supreme Court’s ruling, it’s what they always do. We’ve fostered a lawless society.

Saved - June 30, 2023 at 2:01 AM
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The intention behind my statement is to expose how colleges used racial profiling to prevent Black individuals from attending under the guise of a merit-based system. This does not imply that Black individuals are less intelligent than people of other races.

@ericareport - Erica Marsh

Allow me to clarify this tweet, which is being manipulated for propaganda and misinformation by ULTRA MAGA. The intention of my tweet is to highlight that prior to affirmative action, there existed a supposedly merit-based system for Black individuals to gain admission to colleges. However, these institutions employed racial profiling to prevent Black individuals from attending under the guise of this "merit" system. I want to emphasize that my statement in no way suggests that Black individuals are less intelligent than people of other races. https://t.co/V9ss5YYKuu

@ericareport - Erica Marsh

Today's Supreme Court decision is a direct attack on Black people. No Black person will be able to succeed in a merit-based system which is exactly why affirmative-action based programs were needed. Today's decision is a TRAVESTY!!!

Saved - September 5, 2023 at 1:47 PM

@EndWokeness - End Wokeness

This administration believes that disaster relief be should distributed based on race The Equity Agenda is evil

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Low-income communities and communities of color are disproportionately affected by extreme conditions and issues that are not their fault. To address this, we must provide resources based on equity, recognizing that not everyone starts from the same place. While we strive for equality, we also need to consider the disparities and work towards achieving an equal standing for all.
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Speaker 0: It is our, lowest income communities and our communities of color that are most impacted by these extreme conditions and impacted by issues that are not of their own making. And so we absolutely. And so we have to address this in a way that is about giving resources based on equity, understanding that we fight for equality, but we also need to fight for equity understanding not everyone starts out at the same place. And if we want people to be in an equal place, sometimes we have to take into count those disparities and do that work.
Saved - September 23, 2023 at 12:11 PM
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Michelle Obama's potential presidential run raises concerns for some black Americans. Critics argue that during Barack and Michelle's time in office, racial division increased, and they deceived the public. Additionally, they claim the Obamas endangered law enforcement. These opinions reflect a belief that the Obamas had a negative impact on America.

@w_terrence - Terrence K. Williams

As a black American I could would never vote for Michelle Obama if she decided to run for President. Barack and Michelle set this country back a 100 years, they caused so much division between whites and blacks. They manipulated, fooled and lied to black people and really to all Americans. Oh and they put a target on the back of every police officer. The Obamas ruined America. Raise your hand if you agree

Saved - September 29, 2023 at 4:07 AM

@meantweeting1 - Epstein's Sheet. 🧻

"As a black American I could would never vote for Michelle Obama if she decided to run for President. Barack and Michelle set this country back a 100 years, they caused so much division between whites and blacks. They manipulated, fooled and lied to black people. "...

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The speaker expresses their belief that Obama has not done anything beneficial for black people, despite some still praising him. They criticize the district attorney in Atlanta, accusing her of seeking attention and having political aspirations. They also mention the case against Trump, calling it excessive. The speaker refers to Obama as the worst thing for black people and implies that other presidents have also been detrimental.
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Speaker 0: I'm a keep saying it loud and proud, bro. Obama has done nothing for black people, and you still got black people are still praising him. Black folks still got his statues and memorabilia. Like this was God, bro. I I'm scared of my people when I see this, bro. Y'all got pictures of Obama everywhere like this man was God. You got the district attorney in Atlanta acting like she's doing a change for Atlanta. But this bitch, I said it. She's trying to be some type of new celebrity doing the most for attention because we know she has political aspiration like the rest of them to be a, maybe governor or or or to take over as president. We know this already. Even this case against Trump and all that that she's doing, whether some of y'all agree with her or not, is being way too extra, bro. Fannie is a clown like the rest of you political minstrel shows, bro. Barack Obama been the worst thing for black people. Yes. A lot of presidents been bad for them, but theirs has been no other than a man who looks like
Saved - October 6, 2023 at 7:23 PM

@BIPOCracism - BIPOC Doing Racism

black people are the most racist demographic hands down

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I am willing to give money to homeless people, but when it comes to white homeless individuals, I need more explanation. It's hard for me to believe because they had a 400-year head start and still ended up in this situation. If you're black and homeless, I can understand the challenges you might face, like being kicked out of your home or struggling to find employment. But for white people, it seems like all they need is a suit and tie to get a job. I can only imagine what my ancestors would think if they saw me giving money to a white homeless person. It's just hard for me to comprehend.
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Listen, okay, I'll give my money to homeless people, all right? If I see a homeless person walking, they need some money. If I have it, I'll give it to them, no problem. But if you're white and homeless, white and homeless, see, no, I need a little more explanation. I need a backstory on that because this shit don't even seem real. So you mean to tell me y'all had a 400 year head start here and you still end up dropping the ball and now you're asking me for money? Man, get the fuck, I know you could like, being white and homeless at the same time is crazy. I can see if you're black and homeless, okay, because there's a lot of shit that might happen, right? You might get kicked out your mother's house, your girl's house or something, you know, you can't get a job, it's a little fucked up, you can't pass your drug test, you keep fucking up. Maybe you've been through something here, but white and homeless, all y'all need is a suit and a tie and get on indeed. Y'all be a damn astronaut tomorrow. So no, I don't want to hear it. I can only imagine what my ancestors are saying up there once I give this white person my money. I can only imagine it. You know that's your Ronda boy, right? Girl, look at this. They is just down there doing anything. Oh my gosh. Couldn't be me. Gave him a crispy $10 bill. Could not be me.

@Aye_Yo_Jo33 - Aye Yo Jo33

I agree! I’m not helping no white homeless person who has more privileges and benefits than I do.

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I give money to homeless people, but when it comes to white homeless individuals, I need more explanation. It's hard to believe that after a 400-year head start, they still end up in this situation. I understand if you're black and homeless, as there may be various challenges. But for white individuals, it seems like all they need is a suit and tie to find a job. I can't help but think about what my ancestors would say if they saw me giving money to a white homeless person. It's just hard to comprehend.
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I'll give my money to homeless people. All right. If I see a homeless person walking, they need some money. If I have it, I'll give it to him. No problem. But if you're white and homeless. White and homeless. See now, I need a little more explanation. I need a backstory on that because this shit don't even seem real. So you mean to tell me y'all had a 400 year head start here and you still end up dropping the ball and now you asking me for money? Make it the fuck. I know you could like being white and homeless at the same time. It's crazy. I can see if you black and homeless. Okay, because there's a lot of shit that might happen, right? You might got kicked out your mother house, your girl house or something, you know, you can't get a job. It's a little fucked up. You can't pass your drug test. You keep fucking up. Maybe maybe you've been through something here, but white and homeless. All y'all need is a suit and a tie and get on indeed. Y'all be a damn astronaut tomorrow. So no, I don't want to hear it. I can only imagine what my ancestors are saying up there once I give this white person my money. I can only imagine it. Uh-uh. You know, that's your honor boy, right? Girl. Look at this. Hey, is this down there doing anything? Oh my gosh. Couldn't be me gave him a crispy $10 bill could not be.
Saved - October 11, 2023 at 2:43 PM
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California has enacted the "ebony alert" law, prioritizing black and brown children in missing child cases. Critics argue it excludes white children, claiming they receive more media coverage and Amber Alert benefits. Supporters see it as a necessary step to address racial disparities. Thoughts?

@Travis_in_Flint - 🇺🇸Travis🇺🇸

Happening Now: California has signed the “ebony alert” into law. This new alert system will prioritize black and brown children and can’t be utilized to help find missing white children. In an attempt to pander to radical racist Senators, the Governor has approved this legislation. They claim white kids get better media coverage and Amber Alert benefits white children more. The reality is that this law is very racist and so is anyone who supports it! Thoughts?

Saved - November 18, 2023 at 9:44 PM

@eyeslasho - i/o

Story of two college applicants. White teen with highest possible ACT score, and 4.4 GPA. Black kid with ACT score in 85th percentile. With affirmative action gone, black kid sad that he might not have a shot at Harvard. https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/interactive/2023/affirmative-action-race-teen-college-applications/

After affirmative action, a White teen’s Ivy hopes rose. A Black teen’s sank. Cole Clemmons aimed higher. Demar Goodman aimed lower. They both wrestled with relief, guilt and inadequacy after the Supreme Court remade college admissions. washingtonpost.com
Saved - January 3, 2024 at 1:57 PM
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The recent events at Harvard have highlighted the issue of antisemitism on campus and the influence of the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) movement. DEI, while initially seeming like a positive concept, has become a political advocacy movement that promotes an oppressor/oppressed framework. It labels certain groups as oppressors and others as oppressed based on race, gender, and sexual identity. DEI deems any unequal outcomes as racist and seeks to transform society into an anti-racist one. However, this ideology is fundamentally flawed and inconsistent with American values. It promotes reverse racism and stifles free speech and diverse viewpoints. The selection of Harvard's president, Claudine Gay, was influenced by DEI criteria rather than qualifications, leading to disastrous consequences. The Harvard board needs to be held accountable for their poor decision-making and lack of due diligence. To fix Harvard, the board should resign, new members should be appointed with true diversity of thought, and the DEI office should be shut down. Harvard must return to being a meritocratic institution that values academic freedom, free speech, and a diverse range of perspectives.

@BillAckman - Bill Ackman

In light of today’s news, I thought I would try to take a step back and provide perspective on what this is really all about. I first became concerned about @Harvard when 34 Harvard student organizations, early on the morning of October 8th before Israel had taken any military actions in Gaza, came out publicly in support of Hamas, a globally recognized terrorist organization, holding Israel ‘solely responsible’ for Hamas’ barbaric and heinous acts. How could this be? I wondered. When I saw President Gay’s initial statement about the massacre, it provided more context (!) for the student groups’ statement of support for terrorism. The protests began as pro-Palestine and then became anti-Israel. Shortly, thereafter, antisemitism exploded on campus as protesters who violated Harvard’s own codes of conduct were emboldened by the lack of enforcement of Harvard’s rules, and kept testing the limits on how aggressive, intimidating, and disruptive they could be to Jewish and Israeli students, and the student body at large. Sadly, antisemitism remains a simmering source of hate even at our best universities among a subset of students. A few weeks later, I went up to campus to see things with my own eyes, and listen and learn from students and faculty. I met with 15 or so members of the faculty and a few hundred students in small and large settings, and a clearer picture began to emerge. I ultimately concluded that antisemitism was not the core of the problem, it was simply a troubling warning sign – it was the “canary in the coal mine” – despite how destructive it was in impacting student life and learning on campus. I came to learn that the root cause of antisemitism at Harvard was an ideology that had been promulgated on campus, an oppressor/oppressed framework, that provided the intellectual bulwark behind the protests, helping to generate anti-Israel and anti-Jewish hate speech and harassment. Then I did more research. The more I learned, the more concerned I became, and the more ignorant I realized I had been about DEI, a powerful movement that has not only pervaded Harvard, but the educational system at large. I came to understand that Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion was not what I had naively thought these words meant. I have always believed that diversity is an important feature of a successful organization, but by diversity I mean diversity in its broadest form: diversity of viewpoints, politics, ethnicity, race, age, religion, experience, socioeconomic background, sexual identity, gender, one’s upbringing, and more. What I learned, however, was that DEI was not about diversity in its purest form, but rather DEI was a political advocacy movement on behalf of certain groups that are deemed oppressed under DEI’s own methodology. Under DEI, one’s degree of oppression is determined based upon where one resides on a so-called intersectional pyramid of oppression where whites, Jews, and Asians are deemed oppressors, and a subset of people of color, LGBTQ people, and/or women are deemed to be oppressed. Under this ideology which is the philosophical underpinning of DEI as advanced by Ibram X. Kendi and others, one is either an anti-racist or a racist. There is no such thing as being “not racist.” Under DEI’s ideology, any policy, program, educational system, economic system, grading system, admission policy, (and even climate change due its disparate impact on geographies and the people that live there), etc. that leads to unequal outcomes among people of different skin colors is deemed racist. As a result, according to DEI, capitalism is racist, Advanced Placement exams are racist, IQ tests are racist, corporations are racist, or in other words, any merit-based program, system, or organization which has or generates outcomes for different races that are at variance with the proportion these different races represent in the population at large is by definition racist under DEI’s ideology. In order to be deemed anti-racist, one must personally take action to reverse any unequal outcomes in society. The DEI movement, which has permeated many universities, corporations, and state, local and federal governments, is designed to be the anti-racist engine to transform society from its currently structurally racist state to an anti-racist one. After the death of George Floyd, the already burgeoning DEI movement took off without any real challenge to its problematic ideology. Why, you might ask, was there so little pushback? The answer is that anyone who dared to raise a question which challenged DEI was deemed a racist, a label which could severely impact one’s employment, social status, reputation and more. Being called a racist got people cancelled, so those concerned about DEI and its societal and legal implications had no choice but to keep quiet in this new climate of fear. The techniques that DEI has used to squelch the opposition are found in the Red Scares and McCarthyism of decades past. If you challenge DEI, “justice” will be swift, and you may find yourself unemployed, shunned by colleagues, cancelled, and/or you will otherwise put your career and acceptance in society at risk. The DEI movement has also taken control of speech. Certain speech is no longer permitted. So-called “microaggressions” are treated like hate speech. “Trigger warnings” are required to protect students. “Safe spaces” are necessary to protect students from the trauma inflicted by words that are challenging to the students’ newly-acquired world views. Campus speakers and faculty with unapproved views are shouted down, shunned, and cancelled. These speech codes have led to self-censorship by students and faculty of views privately held, but no longer shared. There is no commitment to free expression at Harvard other than for DEI-approved views. This has led to the quashing of conservative and other viewpoints from the Harvard campus and faculty, and contributed to Harvard’s having the lowest free speech ranking of 248 universities assessed by the Foundation of Individual Rights and Expression. When one examines DEI and its ideological heritage, it does not take long to understand that the movement is inherently inconsistent with basic American values. Our country since its founding has been about creating and building a democracy with equality of opportunity for all. Millions of people have left behind socialism and communism to come to America to start again, as they have seen the destruction leveled by an equality of outcome society. The E for “equity” in DEI is about equality of outcome, not equality of opportunity. DEI is racist because reverse racism is racism, even if it is against white people (and it is remarkable that I even need to point this out). Racism against white people has become considered acceptable by many not to be racism, or alternatively, it is deemed acceptable racism. While this is, of course, absurd, it has become the prevailing view in many universities around the country. You can say things about white people today in universities, in business or otherwise, that if you switched the word ‘white’ to ‘black,’ the consequences to you would be costly and severe. To state what should otherwise be self-evident, whether or not a statement is racist should not depend upon whether the target of the racism is a group who currently represents a majority or minority of the country or those who have a lighter or darker skin color. Racism against whites is as reprehensible as it is against groups with darker skin colors. Martin Luther King’s most famous words are instructive: “I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.” But here we are in 2024, being asked and in some cases required to use skin color to effect outcomes in admissions (recently deemed illegal by the Supreme Court), in business (likely illegal yet it happens nonetheless) and in government (also I believe in most cases to be illegal, except apparently in government contracting), rather than the content of one’s character. As such, a meritocracy is an anathema to the DEI movement. DEI is inherently a racist and illegal movement in its implementation even if it purports to work on behalf of the so-called oppressed. And DEI’s definition of oppressed is fundamentally flawed. I have always believed that the most fortunate should help the least fortunate, and that our system should be designed in such a way as to maximize the size of the overall pie so that it will enable us to provide an economic system which can offer quality of life, education, housing, and healthcare for all. America is a rich country and we have made massive progress over the decades toward achieving this goal, but we obviously have much more work to do. Steps taken on the path to socialism – another word for an equality of outcome system – will reverse this progress and ultimately impoverish us all. We have seen this movie many times. Having a darker skin color, a less common sexual identity, and/or being a woman doesn’t make one necessarily oppressed or even disadvantaged. While slavery remains a permanent stain on our country’s history – a fact which is used by DEI to label white people as oppressors – it doesn’t therefore hold that all white people generations after the abolishment of slavery should be held responsible for its evils. Similarly, the fact that Columbus discovered America doesn’t make all modern-day Italians colonialists. An ideology that portrays a bicameral world of oppressors and the oppressed based principally on race or sexual identity is a fundamentally racist ideology that will likely lead to more racism rather than less. A system where one obtains advantages by virtue of one’s skin color is a racist system, and one that will generate resentment and anger among the un-advantaged who will direct their anger at the favored groups. The country has seen burgeoning resentment and anger grow materially over the last few years, and the DEI movement is an important contributor to our growing divisiveness. Resentment is one of the most important drivers of racism. And it is the lack of equity, i.e, fairness, in how DEI operates, that contributes to this resentment. I was accused of being a racist from the President of the NAACP among others when I posted on @X that I had learned that the Harvard President search process excluded candidates that did not meet the DEI criteria. I didn’t say that former President Gay was hired because she was a black woman. I simply said that I had heard that the search process by its design excluded a large percentage of potential candidates due to the DEI limitations. My statement was not a racist one. It was simply the empirical truth about the Harvard search process that led to Gay’s hiring. When former President Gay was hired, I knew little about her, but I was instinctually happy for Harvard and the black community. Every minority community likes to see their representatives recognized in important leadership positions, and it is therefore an important moment for celebration. I too celebrated this achievement. I am inspired and moved by others’ success, and I thought of Gay’s hiring at the pinnacle leadership position at perhaps our most important and iconic university as an important and significant milestone for the black community. I have spent the majority of my life advocating on behalf of and supporting members of disadvantaged communities including by investing several hundreds of millions of dollars of philanthropic assets to help communities in need with economic development, sensible criminal justice reform, poverty reduction, healthcare, education, workforce housing, charter schools, and more. I have done the same at Pershing Square Capital Management when, for example, we completed one of the largest IPOs ever with the substantive assistance of a number of minority-owned, women-owned, and Veteran-owned investment banks. Prior to the Pershing Square Tontine, Ltd. IPO, it was standard practice for big corporations occasionally to name a few minority-owned banks in their equity and bond offerings, have these banks do no work and sell only a de minimis amount of stock or bonds, and allocate to them only 1% or less of the underwriting fees so that the issuers could virtue signal that they were helping minority communities. In our IPO, we invited the smaller banks into the deal from the beginning of the process so they could add real value. As a result, the Tontine IPO was one of the largest and most successful IPOs in history with $12 billion of demand for a $4 billion deal by the second day of the IPO, when we closed the books. The small banks earned their 20% share of the fees for delivering real and substantive value and for selling their share of the stock. Compare this approach to the traditional one where the small banks do effectively nothing to earn their fees – they aren’t given that opportunity – yet, they get a cut of the deal, albeit a tiny one. The traditional approach does not create value for anyone. It only creates resentment, and an uncomfortable feeling from the small banks who get a tiny piece of the deal in a particularly bad form of affirmative action. While I don’t think our approach to working with the smaller banks has yet achieved the significant traction it deserves, it will hopefully happen eventually as the smaller banks build their competencies and continue to earn their fees, and other issuers see the merit of this approach. We are going to need assistance with a large IPO soon so we are looking forward to working with our favored smaller banks. I have always believed in giving disadvantaged groups a helping hand. I signed the Giving Pledge for this reason. My life plan by the time I was 18 was to be successful and then return the favor to those less fortunate. This always seemed to the right thing to do, in particular, for someone as fortunate as I am. All of the above said, it is one thing to give disadvantaged people the opportunities and resources so that they can help themselves. It is another to select a candidate for admission or for a leadership role when they are not qualified to serve in that role. This appears to have been the case with former President Gay’s selection. She did not possess the leadership skills to serve as Harvard’s president, putting aside any questions about her academic credentials. This became apparent shortly after October 7th, but there were many signs before then when she was Dean of the faculty. The result was a disaster for Harvard and for Claudine Gay. The Harvard board should not have run a search process which had a predetermined objective of only hiring a DEI-approved candidate. In any case, there are many incredibly talented black men and women who could have been selected by Harvard to serve as its president so why did the Harvard Corporation board choose Gay? One can only speculate without knowing all of the facts, but it appears Gay’s leadership in the creation of Harvard’s Office of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging and the penetration of the DEI ideology into the Corporation board room perhaps made Gay the favored candidate. The search was also done at a time when many other top universities had similar DEI-favored candidate searches underway for their presidents, reducing the number of potential candidates available in light of the increased competition for talent. Unrelated to the DEI issue, as a side note, I would suggest that universities should broaden their searches to include capable business people for the role of president, as a university president requires more business skills than can be gleaned from even the most successful academic career with its hundreds of peer reviewed papers and many books. Universities have a Dean of the Faculty and a bureaucracy to oversee the faculty and academic environment of the university. It therefore does not make sense that the university president has to come through the ranks of academia, with a skill set unprepared for university management. The president’s job – managing thousands of employees, overseeing a $50 billion endowment, raising money, managing expenses, capital allocation, real estate acquisition, disposition, and construction, and reputation management – are responsibilities that few career academics are capable of executing. Broadening the recruitment of candidates to include top business executives would also create more opportunities for diverse talent for the office of the university president. Furthermore, Harvard is a massive business that has been mismanaged for a long time. The cost structure of the University is out of control due in large part to the fact that the administration has grown without bounds. Revenues are below what they should be because the endowment has generated a 4.5% annualized return for the last decade in one of the greatest bull markets in history, and that low return is not due to the endowment taking lower risks as the substantial majority of its assets are invested in illiquid and other high-risk assets. The price of the product, a Harvard education, has risen at a rate well in excess of inflation for decades, (I believe it has grown about 7-8% per annum) and it is now about $320,000 for four years of a liberal arts education at Harvard College. As a result, the only students who can now afford Harvard come from rich families and poor ones. The middle class can’t get enough financial aid other than by borrowing a lot of money, and it is hard to make the economics work in life after college when you graduate with large loan balances, particularly if you also attend graduate school. The best companies in the world grow at high rates over many decades. Harvard has grown at a de minimis rate. Since I graduated 35 years ago, the number of students in the Harvard class has grown by less than 20%. What other successful business do you know that has grown the number of customers it serves by less than 20% in 35 years, and where nearly all revenue growth has come from raising prices? In summary, there is a lot more work to be done to fix Harvard than just replacing its president. That said, the selection of Harvard’s next president is a critically important task, and the individuals principally responsible for that decision do not have a good track record for doing so based on their recent history, nor have they done a good job managing the other problems which I have identified above. The Corporation board led by Penny Pritzker selected the wrong president and did inadequate due diligence about her academic record despite Gay being in leadership roles at the University since 2015 when she became dean of the Social Studies department. The Board failed to create a discrimination-free environment on campus exposing the University to tremendous reputational damage, to large legal and financial liabilities, Congressional investigations and scrutiny, and to the potential loss of Federal funding, all while damaging the learning environment for all students. And when concerns were raised about plagiarism in Gay’s research, the Board said these claims were “demonstrably false” and it threatened the NY Post with “immense” liability if it published a story raising these issues. It was only after getting the story cancelled that the Board secretly launched a cursory, short-form investigation outside of the proper process for evaluating a member of the faculty’s potential plagiarism. When the Board finally publicly acknowledged some of Gay’s plagiarism, it characterized the plagiarism as “unintentional” and invented new euphemisms, i.e., “duplicative language” to describe plagiarism, a belittling of academic integrity that has caused grave damage to Harvard’s academic standards and credibility. The Board’s three-person panel of “political scientist experts” that to this day remain unnamed who evaluated Gay’s work failed to identify many examples of her plagiarism, leading to even greater reputational damage to the University and its reputation for academic integrity as the whistleblower and the media continued to identify additional problems with Gay’s work in the days and weeks thereafter. According to the NY Post, the Board also apparently sought to identify the whistleblower and seek retribution against him or her in contravention to the University’s whistleblower protection policies. Despite all of the above, the Board “unanimously” gave its full support for Gay during this nearly four-month crisis, until eventually being forced to accept her resignation earlier today, a grave and continuing reputational disaster to Harvard and to the Board. In a normal corporate context with the above set of facts, the full board would resign immediately to be replaced by a group nominated by shareholders. In the case of Harvard, however, the Board nominates itself and its new members. There is no shareholder vote mechanism to replace them. So what should happen? The Corporation Board should not remain in their seats protected by the unusual governance structure which enabled them to obtain their seats. The Board Chair, Penny Pritzker, should resign along with the other members of the board who led the campaign to keep Claudine Gay, orchestrated the strategy to threaten the media, bypassed the process for evaluating plagiarism, and otherwise greatly contributed to the damage that has been done. Then new Corporation board members should be identified who bring true diversity, viewpoint and otherwise, to the board. The Board should not be principally comprised of individuals who share the same politics and views about DEI. The new board members should be chosen in a transparent process with the assistance of the 30-person Board of Overseers. There is no reason the Harvard board of 12 independent trustees cannot be comprised of the most impressive, high integrity, intellectually and politically diverse members of our country and globe. We have plenty of remarkable people to choose from, and the job of being a director just got much more interesting and important. It is no longer, nor should it ever have been, an honorary and highly political sinecure. The ODEIB should be shut down, and the staff should be terminated. The ODEIB has already taken down much of the ideology and strategies that were on its website when I and others raised concerns about how the office operates and who it does and does not represent. Taking down portions of the website does not address the fundamentally flawed and racist ideology of this office, and calls into further question the ODEIB’s legitimacy. Why would the ODEIB take down portions of its website when an alum questioned its legitimacy unless the office was doing something fundamentally wrong or indefensible? Harvard must once again become a meritocratic institution which does not discriminate for or against faculty or students based on their skin color, and where diversity is understood in its broadest form so that students can learn in an environment which welcomes diverse viewpoints from faculty and students from truly diverse backgrounds and experiences. Harvard must create an academic environment with real academic freedom and free speech, where self-censoring, speech codes, and cancel culture are forever banished from campus. Harvard should become an environment where all students of all persuasions feel comfortable expressing their views and being themselves. In the business world, we call this creating a great corporate culture, which begins with new leadership and the right tone at the top. It does not require the creation of a massive administrative bureaucracy. These are the minimum changes necessary to begin to repair the damage that has been done. A number of faculty at the University of Pennsylvania have proposed a new constitution which can be found at http://pennforward.com, which has been signed by more than 1,200 faculty from Penn, Harvard, and other universities. Harvard would do well to adopt Penn’s proposed new constitution or a similar one before seeking to hire its next president. A condition of employment of the new Harvard president should be the requirement that the new president agrees to strictly abide by the new constitution. He or she should take an oath to that effect. Today was an important step forward for the University. It is time we restore Veritas to Harvard and again be an exemplar that graduates well-informed, highly-educated leaders of exemplary moral standing and good judgment who can help bring our country together, advance our democracy, and identify the important new discoveries that will help save us from ourselves. We have a lot more work to do. Let’s get at it.

Saved - January 23, 2024 at 4:14 PM

@13NVESTR13 - Dr. Joker

The stakes are going up with the SCOTUS ruling. https://t.co/b8vXnDAUY9

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The Supreme Court ruled in favor of the Biden administration regarding the sea wire barriers along the Texas-Mexico border. The speaker questions what will happen if the Biden administration tries to remove the barriers and Texas refuses. They mention the possibility of fines and imprisonment for National Guard members. Another speaker expresses concern about the loss of state sovereignty and the right to protect against invasion. They criticize the federal government's interference with the National Guard and compare the situation to North Korea. They call on Americans to take action and question what rights will be taken next. The speaker concludes by stating that all five Supreme Court justices who voted in favor should be arrested.
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Speaker 0: This is it y'all. Supreme Court rules for Biden administration and the Texas border dispute. This ruling was on Monday, 22nd, today, about an hour ago, 3:30 Eastern Standard Time. It's covered by every news channel. Supreme Court sided with the Biden administration on Monday in a dispute over sea wire barriers erected by Texas along the Mexican border. So what's next? What happens when they go to march in there and cut down these sea wires and Greg Abbott and his national guard says, you're not doing it? So are they gonna use that imprisonment and those fines that they talked about? No more than 5,000 or no more than 3 years in prison? For the National Guard members, Speaker 1: They have just taken your sovereignty at the state level. Let that sink in for a moment. You no longer have the right to protect yourself from invasion. This is it y'all. If we don't put our foot down, this is it. We're gonna go down a very dangerous slope very fast. I'm a say it a little louder for y'all in the back. At the state level, the right to protect yourself from invasion, gone. What is the point of a National Guard in every state if the governor cannot use them without the feds stepping in and stripping away those rights 1 by 1? Starting to look more and more like North Korea every single day. It is up to us as Americans, as patriots, as mothers and fathers, as civilians and veterans alike. The future of this country is in our hands. What are they gonna take next? What are they gonna take next? A 5 to 4 vote. All 5 Speaker 0: of those supreme justices should be arrested, Thus always to tyrants. That's what y'all are.
Saved - May 17, 2024 at 9:05 PM

@SweetPeaBell326 - SweetPeaBelle

Oh my word…IV stat. This speech won’t help him win over black voters. 😆 https://t.co/BKCXSGYKOs

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I moved from Scranton, Pennsylvania to Delaware in 3rd grade with my parents. We just want kids to be able to go to school.
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Speaker 0: Joined by parents and any other students in the it's gonna claim on town I moved to when we work ran out in Scranton, Pennsylvania. We moved back in 3rd grade, moved here in 3rd to Delaware in 3rd grade. All in claim on they would just want a simple proposition. They want the kids to be able to attend school
Saved - June 27, 2024 at 3:05 AM

@TulsiGabbard - Tulsi Gabbard 🌺

It’s a sad day for America, as the Supreme Court has just ruled that the government can collude with Big Tech companies to censor free speech. The First Amendment is now dead in the United States. https://t.co/bvLWjfGwcw

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Today, the Supreme Court ruled that individuals lack standing to challenge government pressure on social media companies to censor content. The decision allows government officials to indirectly violate the First Amendment by pressuring platforms to censor certain viewpoints. This ruling essentially renders the First Amendment ineffective, as individuals cannot sue to prevent censorship. The dissenting opinion warned that this decision gives the government a green light to censor free speech. The speaker expressed disappointment in the lack of protection for free speech and highlighted the negative impact on public health and policy.
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Speaker 0: This is a sad day for our country. The Supreme Court just passed a ruling today saying that our government can collude with big tech companies to censor the free speech of Americans. Speaker 1: Recognize that the law allows Facebook, Twitter, and other private companies to moderate content on their platforms. And I support the right of governments to communicate with the public, including to dispute inaccurate information. But government officials have been caught repeatedly pushing social media platforms to censor disfavored users and content. Often, these acts of censorship threaten the legal protection social media companies need to exist, section 230. Speaker 2: So supreme court striking down today a lower court ruling that found the Biden White House and other federal agencies likely violated the first amendment by pressuring social media companies to censor or remove posts and accounts they didn't agree with. Stanford Medical School professor doctor Jay Bhattacharya was part of that lawsuit and learned via the Twitter files that Matt Taibbi and others put out there that his account had been slapped with a, quote, trends blacklist label for daring to counter doctor Fauci and others about what he saw as harmful COVID era lockdowns. Doctor Badacharya joins me now. It's been great to have you with us today, doctor. And, you know, we all followed very closely, your prescriptions during COVID, which were very different than the lockdowns that were instituted all around us. And you sought to get your, great Barrington proclamation out there and the information that you had about the harmful effects of all these lockdowns, and then you got slammed with this trends blacklist that took you down. What is your reaction to this decision by the Supreme Court today, which would not really was not in your favor, clearly? Speaker 3: Yeah. So we lost 6 to 3. The reasoning that the Supreme Court used was that we we lack standing. Speaker 2: Mhmm. Speaker 3: That's a very, very important reasoning set of reasoning because what it says is that in order to in order to for the first amendment to work, you have to be able you have to prove that the government went to the social media companies and said, censor Jay. What it allows then the government to do is to go to social media companies and say, censor the people saying that closing schools harm children. Censor people that say that, there is immunity after COVID recovery. Censored people that say that there are people that were vaccine injured. Right? And then the government can just say do do that, but so they can threaten the social media companies. And, apparently, the supreme court thinks that that is consistent with the American First Amendment. Essentially, in effect, the First Amendment is a dead letter because the supreme court has said that there's no one who who has standing unless they're specifically called out, to stop them from violating the first amendment via proxies, you know, that is via the social media companies. Speaker 2: So Thomas, Alito, and Gorsuch were among the dissent, and the majority opinion was written by justice Amy Coney Barrett. And she says what you just said. The plaintiffs rely on allegations of past government censorship as evidence that future censorship is likely, but they fail by and large to link their past social restrictions to the defendant's communications and platforms. I I understand, you know, that that you disagree with that, and I would just remind everybody about the the Twitter back and forth. We can put some of these up. But, with the government and Twitter basically saying, you know, we're concerned about these. We'd like you to take them down, and then the response was, you know, handled. So this weekly meetings that we heard about. What are your concerns about this decision, and do you think it can be rectified in the future? Speaker 3: So the government essentially acted like a like mob bosses. That that's exactly what the what the appeals court said. They was like they likened it to Al Capone threatening the social media company's very existence if they didn't comply at the census orders. They were not acting voluntarily. They were acting under duress by government. The government essentially acted to protect itself from criticism, valid criticism about its own misinformation, and it did it silently behind the screen scenes. The dissent in this was actually quite sensible. Essentially, what it says, this is a green light for the government to censor. And the government will take it that way because it's there's no standing for people to sue and say, look, you're not allowed to censor. The First Amendment no longer has a a a viable presence in the the the courts of this nation under under this ruling. And if if, if you can't use past violations of the first amendment as evidence of potential future violations, what could you use? It doesn't make any sense. The the reasoning of the court here makes literally no sense. It's saying, like, look, they yes. They they did censor me in the past, but who knows if they will in the future? And we shouldn't enjoin them from stopping from essentially abiding by the first amendment in the future. It's a very disheartening day for this country. Speaker 2: Yeah. You know, you, wrote a lot of your thoughts on COVID and the Wall Street Journal and other places, and people got to read them. But when they found their way onto, Twitter and other social media accounts, they were they were slapped with this label. And doctor Fauci says, show me a school that I shut down. I never told a school to shut down. And now we see the the just continuing damage on our children across this country as a result of these these actions, which I know you were very much against. Doctor, thank you. Yeah. Go ahead. Final thought. Speaker 3: Yeah. I mean, if we had the first amendment, we would have better policy. First amendment protects the health of this of Americans in a sad day that we don't have that in this country right now. Speaker 0: Mark this day because this day is the death of the first amendment in the United States of America.
Saved - February 24, 2025 at 1:01 PM

@AGPamBondi - Attorney General Pamela Bondi

Yesterday, the American Bar Association voted to suspend enforcement of Standard 206 - a DEI requirement for the student bodies and faculties of law schools. This is a victory for common sense. We are bringing meritocracy back to the legal system.

Saved - April 2, 2025 at 11:42 PM
reSee.it AI Summary
SCOTUS's 2023 decision against affirmative action was seen as a victory for merit, yet many colleges continue to evade its implications. They employ "race-neutral" strategies like socioeconomic proxies and essay loopholes to maintain diversity while undermining merit. With no oversight from SCOTUS, some institutions comply while others manipulate the system. The ongoing struggle against the Left's approach to fairness raises concerns about the future of merit in America. We need to find ways to uphold these principles and counteract the subversion of DEI initiatives.

@TomKlingenstein - Tom Klingenstein

SCOTUS struck down affirmative action in ‘23, a win for merit over race. Yet woke colleges dodge it. Gleefully. Progressives today defy justice openly. Conservatives, why are we allowing ourselves to be outfoxed? 🧵 https://t.co/uF4kTbdSYA

@TomKlingenstein - Tom Klingenstein

Higher-Ed is now sidestepping anti-DEI enforcement through “race-neutral” tricks—socioeconomic proxies, essay loopholes. Where merit should rule, they cling to diversity dogma – only REBRANDED. How do we enforce SCOTUS’ intent? 2/3

@TomKlingenstein - Tom Klingenstein

After all, SCOTUS isn’t policing this—nor is anyone. Some schools appear to do the right thing, others game it. The Left’s war on fairness marches on. If we lose merit, we lose America. How do we hold the line against this subversion? Cleary, we have not defeated DEI. 3/3

Saved - April 11, 2025 at 10:49 AM
reSee.it AI Summary
By 1999, I believed racism in America was virtually eradicated, thanks to four influential figures. However, I now feel that the current climate is the worst I've experienced in my lifetime. If you were born after 1990, you might not grasp how different things were supposed to be. I recall a time when race jokes were commonplace, and I think we can return to that. In response to comments about various countries, I admitted my unfamiliarity with many of them. I also shared a project where I imagined U.S. cities as people, which I found enjoyable.

@Huff4Congress - Huff

By 1999, racism in America was virtually gone, thanks largely to these four men. No, you don’t understand. It was gone. (1/2) https://t.co/wkHntxE6Yq

@Huff4Congress - Huff

…but thanks to these four, all of that has been erased. I don’t know how it was pre-civil rights, but this is the worst it’s ever felt in my lifetime. You don’t understand if you were born after 1990. It wasn’t supposed to be like this. (2/2) https://t.co/jfsHblDrRp

@Huff4Congress - Huff

Addendum: from the 1970s up through the Chappelle Show, everyone laughed at race jokes. We can return.

@Huff4Congress - Huff

I asked AI to turn every nation in the world into a person. Here are the results, in alphabetical order. FAQ at the end. Thread. 🌎🌍🌏🧵 https://t.co/L4zAZUijgZ

@Huff4Congress - Huff

Follow-up, in response to comments: “Have you heard of Bosnia?” No. “Serbia?” No. “Cameroon?” No. “Central African Republic?” No way that’s a real county. “Guyana?” No. “Cyprus?” That’s a tree. “Honduras?” No. “Myanmar?” No. “North Macedonia?” Yes, but it’s a new nation.

@Huff4Congress - Huff

This was good too.

@Huff4Congress - Huff

I asked AI to make a list of the 65 most important cities in the United States, then create a photograph of each one as if it were a person. Here are the results. Thread 🧵 https://t.co/b7WbnSUlBQ

Saved - April 22, 2025 at 10:54 AM

@ConquerorChad - Chad The Conqueror

Black Americans view racial current events like sports. As long as their team wins they cheer, if their team loses they cry foul play and in either case, they may riot. https://t.co/MxdaGLtDM2

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The jury finds the defendant, O.J. Simpson, not guilty.
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Speaker 0: We, the jury, in the above entitled action find the defendant, Orthol James Simpson, not guilty of crime.
Saved - May 7, 2025 at 7:14 PM

@EDSecMcMahon - Secretary Linda McMahon

Dear @Harvard: https://t.co/XmMimXfkX0

Saved - May 7, 2025 at 7:14 PM
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The conversation began with a call for Harvard to be scrutinized. In response, it was suggested that Harvard should be investigated for its law school's ties to Protect Democracy, which allegedly played a role in legal actions against the Trump administration over the past four years.

@EDSecMcMahon - Secretary Linda McMahon

Dear @Harvard: https://t.co/XmMimXfkX0

@listen_2learn - The Researcher

@EDSecMcMahon Harvard needs to be investigated for their role in the lawfare against the Trump administration through their law school’s relationship with Protect Democracy who were also involved in all of the lawfare over the last four years including elections.

@listen_2learn - The Researcher

“Democracy and the Rule of Law Clinic” So Harvard law school students work for Protect Democracy, one of the lawfare nonprofits that works against the will of the 77M+ Americans that voted for Trump.

Saved - September 11, 2025 at 10:42 PM

@bravoCo104498 - Nom De Plume

They assassinated the equivalent of Martin Luther King. This will ripple through this country for decades. You woke up the exact wrong part of the electorate that you’ll never get back. College age students. https://t.co/D2zESRSHhq

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The speaker asserts that “the left wakes up tomorrow and realizes that somebody that agrees with them assassinated the equivalent of Martin Luther King junior” and that “they are celebrating right now.” He credits “Charlie Kirk started a movement, and he led that movement. And that movement changed the election. Without Charlie Kirk, president Trump does not win in 2024.” “The people whose minds he changed... they know it. And you just woke them up.” He calls it “the equivalent of assassinating Martin Luther King, and you'll never be able to live this down.” He warns of “the ones that are celebrating, the ones that are cheering, the ones that are excited and happy.” He asks, “who you are as a person that can allow you to watch somebody get assassinated... knowing his wife and his children were standing there watching, and you're cheering it.” “Because of words that he spoke, ideas that he had, which, by the way, are pretty standard ideas for all of millennia,” and that “you killed him.” “You just created a Martin Luther King, and you created 10,000,000 new Charlie Kirks at the same time.”
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Speaker 0: When the left wakes up tomorrow and realizes that somebody that agrees with them assassinated the equivalent of Martin Luther King junior and the movement that Charlie Kirk had created in this country, the political movement, a political assassination, they are not going to know what to do with themselves. They're celebrating right now. They are. All you have to do is look across this platform, look across x. They are celebrating right now. But I'm gonna tell you, I'm having conversations with my two boys in college down here in the South, and you have no idea what you have just awoken in the college age youth. You have no clue what you just did. This is the equivalent of assassinating Martin Luther King. And you can come at me if you want. You can do it. Charlie Kirk started a movement, and he led that movement. And that movement changed the election. Without Charlie Kirk, president Trump does not win in 2024. And the people whose minds he changed and the movement he led, they know it. And you just woke them up. This was the equivalent of assassinating Martin Luther King, and you'll never be able to live this down. Tomorrow, when we wake up, we're gonna have a lot to talk about. Tonight, we've got a lot to think about, and so do you, Libs. So do you, democrats. The ones that are celebrating, the ones that are cheering, the ones that are excited and happy. I want you to think about who you are as a person that can allow you to watch somebody get assassinated all over social media knowing his wife and his children were standing there watching, and you're cheering it. Think about it. Because of words that he spoke, ideas that he had, which, by the way, are pretty standard ideas for all of millennia. And because of those ideas and because he was a voice and a beacon to young men who needed someone to listen to, you killed him. You assassinated him, and then you celebrated it. This is really fascinating on the eve of the anniversary of nine eleven, twenty four years ago. You're cheering, you're dancing, you're having a great time, but you don't realize that you just created a Martin Luther King, and you created 10,000,000 new Charlie Kirks at the same time.
Saved - October 15, 2025 at 10:37 PM

@greg_price11 - Greg Price

Justice Jackson just compared black people not being able to create majority black congressional districts to disabled people not being able to enter a building before the ADA. "They don't have equal access to the voting system. They're disabled." https://t.co/zvN8bJf4Xc

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A paradigmatic example cited is the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). Congress passed the ADA against the backdrop of a world that was generally not accessible to people with disabilities. Because of that context, it was discriminatory in effect, since those with disabilities were not able to access the buildings. It did not matter whether the person who built the building or the person who owned the building intended for exclusion; that intention is irrelevant. Congress stated that the facilities have to be made equally open to people with disabilities if readily possible. The speaker expresses confusion about why that standard is not being applied in the current context. The idea in section two is that we are responding to current-day manifestations of past and present decisions that disadvantage minorities and make it so that they don't have equal access to the voting system. Right? They're disabled. In fact, they are described as disabled.
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Speaker 0: A kind of paradigmatic example of this is something like the ADA. Congress passed the Americans with Disabilities Act against the backdrop of a world that was generally not accessible to people with disabilities. And so it was discriminatory in effect because these folks were not able to access these buildings. And it didn't matter whether the person who built the building or the person who owned the building intended for them to be exclusionary. It that that's irrelevant. Congress said the facilities have to be made equally open to people with disabilities if readily possible. I guess I don't understand why that's not what's happening here. The idea in section two is that we are responding to current day manifestations of past and present decisions that disadvantage minorities and make it so that they don't have equal access to the voting system. Right? They're they're disabled. In fact
Saved - October 15, 2025 at 10:37 PM
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I’ve heard that some of the worst anti‑black racists in America are Black people who’ve climbed the ladder of success. KBJ's comments are so reprehensible George Wallace would be embarrassed to repeat them at a Klan rally. She said this in oral argument at SCOTUS. Unbelievable.

@CynicalPublius - Cynical Publius

A little known fact is that In America, some of the very worst anti-black racists are black people who have climbed to the top of America's ladder of success. KBJ's sickeningly racist comments here are so exceptionally reprehensible that George Wallace would have been embarrassed to repeat them at a Klan meeting. And she said this in oral argument at SCOTUS!!!! Unbelievable.

@greg_price11 - Greg Price

Justice Jackson just compared black people not being able to create majority black congressional districts to disabled people not being able to enter a building before the ADA. "They don't have equal access to the voting system. They're disabled." https://t.co/zvN8bJf4Xc

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The speaker discusses the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) as a paradigmatic example of how law addresses accessibility without regard to the builder’s or owner’s intent. The argument is that Congress acted against a context in which the world was generally not accessible to people with disabilities, so facilities were discriminatory in effect even if there was no deliberate exclusion. The key principle highlighted is that “the facilities have to be made equally open to people with disabilities if readily possible,” illustrating that discrimination can be unintentional or indirect and still require remedial action. The speaker then connects this ADA example to a broader constitutional or statutory principle in Section Two. The claim is that Section Two is designed to respond to current-day manifestations of past and present decisions that disadvantage minorities and prevent them from having equal access to the voting system. In other words, the analysis centers on how historical and ongoing decisions create barriers that render the voting process unequal for minority groups, depicting these barriers as “disabled” in the sense of obstructing equal participation. Throughout the discussion, the emphasis is on the distinction between intent and effect. The argument suggests that even in the absence of deliberate intent to discriminate, the effects or outcomes can be discriminatory, requiring corrective measures to ensure equal access. The ADA serves as a concrete illustration of this concept—where accessibility requirements are driven by the reality that people with disabilities were, and often continue to be, disadvantaged in practical terms by the built environment. This model is then applied to Section Two’s aim of addressing contemporary barriers to voting that persist due to historical and ongoing policy choices that disadvantage minority communities, thereby hindering their equal participation in the electoral process. The speaker’s closing sentiment underscores a perceived alignment between the ADA framework and the voting rights context: the notion that equal access must be ensured when readily possible, and that current inequalities in voting access reflect broader patterns of past and present decisions that disadvantage minorities. The final remark—“They’re disabled”—signals a framing of the affected populations as those deprived of equal participation due to systemic barriers.
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Speaker 0: A kind of paradigmatic example of this is something like the ADA. Congress passed the Americans with Disabilities Act against the backdrop of a world that was generally not accessible to people with disabilities. And so it was discriminatory in effect because these folks were not able to access these buildings. And it didn't matter whether the person who built the building or the person who owned the building intended for them to be exclusionary. It that that's irrelevant. Congress said the facilities have to be made equally open to people with disabilities if readily possible. I guess I don't understand why that's not what's happening here. The idea in section two is that we are responding to current day manifestations of past and present decisions that disadvantage minorities and make it so that they don't have equal access to the voting system. Right? They're they're disabled. In fact
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