On June 23, 2016, the Supreme Court of the United States decided to rule in favor of affirmative action in the racially charged case of Fisher v University of Texas at Austin. The plaintiff, Abigail Fisher, is a 26-year-old woman who is suing UT Austin for alleged racial discrimination. The lawsuit, which began in 2008, pinpointed affirmative action as the reason Fisher, who had mediocre SAT scores and a less-than-stellar GPA, failed to get into her father’s alma mater.

The case is so cartoonishly petty that it’s almost a shock that it made it to the Supreme Court—almost. In this era of spiking xenophobia and entitlement awareness, Abby Fisher is the poster child for modern conservatives, who feverishly incite audiences by convincing them that the minorities are planning on usurping their position of power, all the while denying that they have a position of power at all. The fact that people are buying into this outright hypocrisy is a testament to the authority this group tragically carries.

The fact that Abigail Fisher--a member of this upper class elite—failed to get into her first choice school is a reflection of her failures. The fact that she chose to blame minority students is a reflection of society’s failures. If her underwhelming academic achievements did not clue her in ahead of time, she was always striving for something out of her reach.

Had she been more astute, she would have realized that taking her case to trial was an enormous mistake. Then again, had she been more astute, she probably would have had a better chance a getting accepted in the first place.

The fact that Abby Fisher made it all the way to the Supreme Court stands as a testament in how far this nation has to go when scrutinizing race relations. Although we have come a long way from the state our nation was in before affirmative action was put in place, we are not even close to the standard at which society should be. Abby Fisher is a testament to the entitlement, avarice, and antipathy that still holds strong to our nation.