What was she talking about when she said....

Posted on: May 21, 2021 at 14:47:09 CT

"Sotomayor responded to a range of other questions. She talked about being seen as a role model and the importance she places on talking to students and on civic education. Fishman also asked her about affirmative action, a topic last considered by the court in 2016 and which the justices will have to decide whether to confront again soon. Sotomayor, the court's first Hispanic justice and a graduate of Princeton and Yale, has described herself as the beneficiary of affirmative action.

“I think that my own personal feeling is, if you make judgments based on absolute criteria, you’re not going to find the best people. If you ask the school to accept students who have a GPA of X... and nothing less, you may very much miss the Beethovens ... How about the kids who are wonderful in science, but horrible in everything else? ... We have to judge people as individuals because once we stop doing that, we give up so much richness in our world,” Sotomayor said."

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Sounds like she's advocating lower standards if not the elimination of standards altoghether.