Paul’s aim, such as it is (overnight), is to defend the practice (which highly favors largely mediocre whyte kids!) of legacy admission criteria, as a “booster” — at elite colleges and universities.

But as ever, he starts from a false premise. Then he argues whataboutism.

The false premise: there is no purely race-based admission in the US after the Supremes’ Michigan cases (Grutter v. Bollinger) in 2003.

The Supremes there held — and as we’ve pointed out, re-affirmed in the Harvard case last month — that using several factors to sort applicants (some of which might correlate with a particular racial background) IS PERMISSIBLE.

The Chief Justice clearly wrote just that — but Paul then FALSELY labels that “race-based”.

That is no more “race-based” than an ear of corn, grown in soil that might also have been fertilized a season ago or more with manure… is “cow-based” corn.

But from this false premise, Paul then claims legacies are less odious than “race-based” admissions.

What a stupid, non-logical argument.

Sit down, Paul. No one believes your… unctuous bullsh#t.

Out.