{"id":23909,"date":"2016-07-08T14:50:29","date_gmt":"2016-07-08T18:50:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=23909"},"modified":"2016-07-08T14:51:56","modified_gmt":"2016-07-08T18:51:56","slug":"gallup-clear-majority-of-americans-oppose-using-race-in-admission-decisions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/23909\/gallup-clear-majority-of-americans-oppose-using-race-in-admission-decisions\/","title":{"rendered":"Gallup:  Clear Majority of Americans Oppose Using Race in Admission Decisions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On the heels of last week&#8217;s indefensible Supreme Court <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/article\/437500\/supreme-courts-fisher-v-university-texas-affirmative-action-case-preserves-race\" target=\"_blank\">ruling<\/a> upholding racial discrimination in university admissions (with Justice Kennedy bizarrely reversing his recent position on the other side of the question), there&#8217;s good news to report. \u00a0In a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gallup.com\/poll\/193508\/oppose-colleges-considering-race-admissions.aspx?utm_source=alert&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=morelink&amp;utm_campaign=syndication\" target=\"_blank\">new Gallup poll<\/a>, a surprising and overwhelming 70% to 26% majority of Americans believe that applicants should be admitted solely on merit. \u00a0Notably, that majority opposed consideration of race &#8220;even when it is explained that this could help increase diversity,&#8221; as Gallup emphasized:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Overwhelming Majority Opposes Racial Consideration\" src=\"http:\/\/content.gallup.com\/origin\/gallupinc\/GallupSpaces\/Production\/Cms\/POLL\/azziuifjekq5kv_pncv3kg.png\" alt=\"Overwhelming Majority Opposes Racial Consideration\" width=\"544\" height=\"424\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Although this lopsided disapproval won&#8217;t reverse last week&#8217;s Supreme Court error, it does suggest that a broad and rare consensus exists to systematically dismantle such discriminatory practices across federal, state and local levels.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the heels of last week&#8217;s indefensible Supreme Court ruling upholding racial discrimination in university admissions (with Justice Kennedy bizarrely reversing his recent position on the other side of the question), there&#8217;s good news to report. \u00a0In a new Gallup poll, a surprising and overwhelming 70% to 26% majority of Americans believe that applicants should [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1042,1045,842],"class_list":["post-23909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-affirmative-action","tag-discrimination","tag-gallup"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23909","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23909"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23909\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23912,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23909\/revisions\/23912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}