FAIR Files Amicus Brief Supporting SFFA
The Foundation Against Intolerance and Racism filed an amicus brief supporting the petitioners (SFFA) in SFFA v. Harvard. Worth reading in full, the brief applies FAIR’s core principles to what is at stake in substituting the collective for the individual.
As FAIR summarized:
“FAIR agrees that diversity along many dimensions is a desirable goal in institutions of higher education. However, employing group preferences to achieve that goal is inconsistent with the nation’s first principles of equality and individual rights, and does a disservice to those the policy claims to uplift. Skin color is a crude proxy for perspectives and experiences. By using reductive group preferences that do not necessarily correlate with an individual’s life experience, competence, or character, we elevate institutional interests over individual rights and foment division, resentment, and dehumanization.”
SFFA filed its opening brief on 5/2/22 and amicus briefs were due 5/9/22. Harvard and UNC’s responses to SFFA are due to the Supreme Court by July 25, followed by supporting briefs.
See the SFFA press release
See Crimson article on amicus brief filed by 81 Republican lawmakers.
