Left-wing outrage in the wake of the Supreme Court’s ruling against affirmative action continues to persist. The left isn’t dropping the argument that it’s OK for colleges to use race as a deciding factor for which students get admission into universities.

Nevertheless, using race in this way has been formally recognized as unconstitutional. Colleges and universities will therefore have to make changes if their admission processes previously relied upon affirmative action use.

MSNBC host Joy Reid is one of many Democrats who are now criticizing this outcome. Though her statements on the matter of affirmative action are now raising some eyebrows, according to the Daily Mail.

Last week, Reid revealed that she was able to get into Harvard University not on merit, but because of affirmative action policies that existed at the time. The MSNBC host then went to on say she was “nerdy and smart,” which enabled her to get good SAT test scores, along with good grades.

Of course, Reid’s point with this reveal was to make the case that affirmative action should remain in place.

Interestingly enough, she would later go on to say that certain students also attending Harvard at the time suspected that she only received admission because of affirmative action.

The case that the MSNBC host made in favor of affirmative action wasn’t very well-received. In fact, Americans largely responded by saying that what Reid described is all the more reason why college admissions should only be influenced by merit, rather than race.

On social media, supporters of the Supreme Court’s verdict maintain that ending affirmative action creates a fair playing field for all applicants trying to get into various universities.

Furthermore, it increases the odds that those who do receive admission will go on to do well.