At Yale Law School, a party invitation ignites a firestorm
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Maoist reeducation camps have nothing on Yale Law School . If you think this is an exaggeration, okay, it is, but keep reading.
Last month, a second-year law student sent some classmates an invitation to a party — to celebrate Constitution Day, of all things.
“I guess celebrating whiteness wasn’t enough,” the president of the Black Law Students Association wrote in the forum. She objected to the involvement of the Federalist Society, which, she said, “has historically supported anti-Black rhetoric.”
But what erupted on the group chat didn’t stay on the group chat. All too typically, the issue was escalated to authorities and reinforced by the administrative architecture of diversity and grievance. And that’s when things went off the rails.
Colbert secretly recorded that conversation, and another the next day, and the Free Beacon has posted them. The audio offers an unsettling insight into the hair-trigger and reflexively liberal mind-set of the educational diversity complex.
Eldik told Colbert that the email’s “association with FedSoc was very triggering for students who already feel like FedSoc belongs to political affiliations that are oppressive to certain communities. That of course obviously includes the LGBTQIA community and Black communities and immigrant communities.”
The administrators leaned on Colbert to think about “asking for forgiveness” to help “make this go away.” They drafted a note that they thought would suffice, apologizing for “any harm, trauma or upset” the email caused,” and adding, in language reminiscent of the Cultural Revolution, “I know I must learn more and grow. And I will actively educate myself so I can do better.” Dunce cap, anyone?
When Colbert resisted, saying he would prefer to discuss the issue face to face with anyone who was offended, the administrators acted on their own that same night, emailing the entire second-year class. “An invitation was recently circulated containing pejorative and racist language. We condemn this in the strongest possible terms.”
After the Free Beacon story broke, Yale issued a statement denying that it had any intent of disciplining Colbert or alerting bar authorities down the line. “No student is investigated or sanctioned for protected speech,” the statement said.
Good to know. But that’s not the biggest challenge at Yale or at other law school campuses. It’s how to deal with a grievance culture in which every slight, real or perceived, is greeted with outsize demands for disciplinary consequences. There is — or should be — a distinction between sophomoric provocation and outright racism .
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Not that I have much hope for victimization culture to recede anytime soon, but it's a good sign when even Ruth Marcus notices how absurd academia has become.
I'd say not much has changed since William F Buckley wrote God & Man at Yale 70 years ago.
The best solution might be for me to meet with Cosgrove and Eldik. We'd find out who would do the begging for mercy!
I read the story and I still cant really understand what was going on.
Fortunately, I do not care, at all.
Something like this should be just ignored. What goes on in these situations on college campuses effects virtually no one who reads about it in the news.
Its just an opportunity for the right to whine.
You can't? It seems that the radicals who run Yale are doing precisely what you proposed. They are demanding apologies for whiteness!
Something like this should be just ignored.
NO, THAT IS HOW WE GOT TO THIS PLACE!
Try to stay calm Vic. You are not a victim of anything.
Remember rule 1 of the Coc. Let's not make it personal
sounds pretty excited over nothing to me
So let me get this straight. My understanding of this train wreck is this; the Black Law Students Association was pissed that they didn't get an invite to the Native American Law Students Association party and decided to make a problem where there wasn't (race). The school stepped in and in typical progressive bullying and stupidity threatened the Native American Law Students Association.
Is that a correct?
It's my understanding they were invited as the invitation was posted to the entire second year class and still ran to the admisntration.
These are adults, all college graduates, who ran to the admisntration because they got the vapors over an invitation and the mere mention of the words "federalist society" We'll know the craziness has ended when college administrators start laughing students out of the office when they start this up. Now they get coddled. .
So in a nutshell, the invitation was extended and they decided to make it about something that it's not.
If this is what's coming out of Yale, we're fucked.
It isn't as silly as it seems at first glance. This is a play for power, not simply a tiff someone is having. It doesn't matter whether the post was actually racist in nature. It just has to be made to seem racist. That way you get a lot of people who can't think for themselves to blindly start condemning it. The law professors are likely the one's teaching the tactic. You make everyone around you walk on eggshells for fear of being labeled as racist (and whatever other "ist" they want to throw at you). That way, your opponents are afraid to do anything at all other than what you allow them to do. That's the goal. Going back to the public shame/honor society of the old world rather than one based on actual morality.
So it was made out to be something it's not.
That seems to work on the non-thinkers. Seems that many more people are coming to realize that calling something "racist" is just a chicken little ploy.
his is a play for power, not simply a tiff someone is having.
That's a very good point and gets lost in the muddle of these ridiculous stories. The goal is to portray oneself as oppressed, because in 2021 America victimhood is the ultimate power. Once the complainer has established themselves as the victim in any argument, they have the power in a confrontation and then control the results. It's just what happened here, the complainer portrayed themselves as racially victimized and then was able to use the power of the university to accomplish what they wanted, namely trying to punish their opponent for "oppressing" them.
Mean tweets got them all to come out of the closet and their mental illness is now of full display. I'm moving out of the way so the horde can inevitably cancel themselves to irrelevance.
It's also important to remember that today's red fascist is a mentally unhinged basket case obsessed with dicks. They aren't going to last very long.
These folks faux-offended so easily will surely have a tough time in adulthood.
I'm buying stock in green and purple hair dye.
That says it all! No one getting an Ivy League school law degree can expect to never have exposure to The Federalist Society, it’s members lawyers, and judges.
Ivy League schools don't seem so special anymore