Larry Wilmore was emphatic on Thursday night’s episode of “The Nightly Show” on Abigail Fisher’s case before the Supreme Court: You don’t get things just because you want them.
Fisher is suing the University of Texas at Austin, saying affirmative action denied her a spot at the public research university in 2008. Her case could spell the end of affirmative action across higher education.
“You are not entitled to anything just because you want it. Welcome to life,” Wilmore said through a bullhorn.
Watch his takedown of Fisher’s case in the clip, from Comedy Central, below:
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doesn’t Scalia’s argument work both ways? wouldn’t she be too slow to go to the Big Kid’s school since she couldn’t qualify for entry under the 10% requirement?
or does that only apply to black folk?
She demands Negative Action, so she can get past the admission requirements.
PS to Caitlin–In the lede, I don’t think you meant to say Wilmore was “empathic”; you meant to say “emphatic”. Damn spoell-check.
I was wondering how you can have empathy via bullhorn.
Wilmore makes a great case that this suit is wholly without without merit.
Essentially, Scalia’s argument is irrelevant because of that. She is in the same boat as the minority that did get accepted, and in that light, its questionable that she should even have standing. Both students have roughly the same academic record, so it would seem to come down to does UT have an interest in promoting a more diverse student body…and the answer is yes.
Which is why Roberts offered up his argument…that a black person doesn’t offer any more to a physics class than a white person. I understand the outrage, but Willmore’s example here is actually off target. Roberts didn’t say black people aren’t smart…he is asking, what difference does it matter what color a person’s skin is in a physics class?
And the answer is that people of different ethnic background bring different perspectives to the same problem, by which other people learn. So the black guy pulls upon something in his background/experience to solve a problem, and the white girl learns to look at things differently. And vice versa.
You know, sort of like having Jewish, Italian, Hispanic and Black people on the Supreme Court helps them all see things from different perspectives. Naaa, its quite obvious that hasn’t worked in Roberts or Scalia’s cases.