Harvey Silverglate

These kids would get good educations.

And incidentally, the Postal Service would probably work better too.

It's an affirmative action, basically.

And what it does is it allows the system of elementary and secondary education to be bad because they could say, oh, we got our kids into Harvard.

Yes, but you haven't educated them.

And it covers up the wound.

And I think it will never improve as long as we're able to cover up the wound.

And as I said, affirmative action is gonna be abolished by the Supreme Court.

It's a clear violation of equal protection.

It's what Sanchez de O'Connor understood but ignored intentionally, but as an experiment.

And I believe it's gonna be abolished and that's gonna have, that's gonna force

the elementary and high schools to get serious.

Yeah, well, this is not the only incident.

There have been incidents all around the country of academics, professors who have views that don't comport with the, as the great Lillian Hellman, another friend of my late wife,

said she refused to cut her garments in order to fit the fashions of the day.

Dorian Abbott didn't cut his suit to fit the fashions of the day in his intellectual suit.

And so this has happened at Princeton, this has happened at Harvard, this has happened at MIT.

The great universities in the country have decided that the clash of ideas is not such a good idea because some people's feelings will be hurt.

Well, there was quite a revolt.

against it fire sounded the alarm and then in the end the universities were I believe Abbott was invited to come back I think he turned him down he shouldn't have turned him down but he did