might want to keep an eye—just one eye, not two, but a sharp one nonetheless—on the Supreme Court of the United States, as the court deliberates the future of affirmative action in college admissions.
What SCOTUS decides about academic affirmative action would seem to have little direct legal bearing on the film Academy and the race-, gender- and disability-basedstandards it is poised to impose on the Oscar Best Picture race beginning with the 2024 ceremony. After all, educational institutions are governed by a wide range of specific state and federal laws and court precedents, and the movies, even when overseen by a nudgy nonprofit, are still relatively free of such regulation.
Achievement matters. But, as in many contemporary college admissions, it is just one in a basket of considerations. Once the standards are fully enforced, challenges are inevitable. In any limited field, obviously, admitting some means excluding others, just as qualified Asian Americans say they are shut out of universities, or as the Jewish presence at Harvard was halved in ten years under ‘holistic’ policies that supplemented merit with “character” and “fitness” requirements after 1925.
Yeah, Academy, make sure YOU don't abandon racial favoritism in case the education system does, it would be racist, you know.
I always read it as Scouts and get confused.