In a unanimous decision, the Supreme Court dealt a massive blow to efforts to protect Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion initiatives, marking a massive victory for Justice Clarence Thomas.
The unanimous Supreme Court decision in Ames v. Ohio Department of Youth Services knocked down DEI initiatives, pointing out that group discrimination is both "anything but academic" and fundamentally unconstitutional.
The decision marks an ideological victory for Justice Thomas, who has been leading the charge against leftist ideas that utilize oppression olympics to raise up minority groups over qualified individuals in hiring.
In fact, it was the court's most liberal member, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, who sounded like a student of Thoma, saying the "law’s focus on individuals rather than groups [is] anything but academic. By establishing the same protections for every ‘individual’—without regard to that individual’s membership in a minority or majority group—Congress left no room for courts to impose special requirements on majority-group plaintiffs alone."
The Supreme Court has been laying waste to decades of leftist work in academia, pushing repulsive DEI initiatives that discriminate based on group membership.
Justice Thomas issued a concurring opinion alongside the court, adding that the "background circumstances" rule at question in the case was "plainly at odds with the Constitution’s guarantee of equal protection."
Furthermore, Justice Thomas made it clear that the Ames decision is directly aimed at DEI programs, striking a fatal blow to leftist hopes of playing games and preserving DEI programs with minor legalistic changes.
Justice Thomas wrote that, "American employers have long been ‘obsessed’ with ‘diversity, equity, and inclusion’ initiatives and affirmative action plans. Initiatives of this kind have often led to overt discrimination against those perceived to be in the majority."
This decision ends decades of leftist work to create systems that discriminate against the majority, or in other words, to discriminate against White people.
It's poetic that years of critical race theory are being burned down by one of the most accomplished Black Americans in history. Justice Thomas is an intellectual heavyweight who is often pointed to as the gold standard of constitutional thinking.
Justice Thomas has, in many ways, taken up the mantle left by the late Justice Antonin Scalia, who died in 2016. His hard-hitting judicial insights have been powerful enough even to sway the leftists who sit on the Supreme Court.
The future of DEI in America is looking especially grim as the Supreme Court continues to issue decisions that chop down the core legal principles that have long enabled the racist idea of judging individuals as members of social groups instead of simply as individuals.
Furthermore, the Ames decision is one of the first major decisions that singles out the issue of "reverse discrimination" against White Americans, who have been demonized by leftist thinking and policymaking.
As long as the Supreme Court has a majority panel that is inclined to uphold the core principles of the Constitution, there is no room for radical leftist theories that are modern reinterprations of racist ideas.
