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Law school cancel culture

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Fortunately, there is a straightforward way to stop this mischief, at least in law schools, and to underscore the importance of free speech on campus. If students are found to have disrupted a speaker (after a fair hearing, in which they can defend themselves), they should face a simple penalty: disclosure.

Why do they behave like chidren?

Posted by Bird Dog in Hot News & Misc. Short Subjects at 18:50 | Comments (11) | Trackbacks (0)

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The author promotes disclosure but not punishment. Both are required if you actually want to end the abuse. Kick the student out of the class for a term and without tuition refund. They will lose time and money. That is what they create when they disrupt a speaker is cause the loss of time and money for others.

#1 indyjonesouthere on 2023-03-19 19:44 (Reply)

Give them a choice: kicked out for the semester, or get thrown a beating. Those little fascists haven’t faced any consequences other than approval from their fellow travelers.

And yes, I have no problem with resorting to violence like a good thumping.

#2 Hoss on 2023-03-19 20:39 (Reply)

Students act like children because there are only cowardly adults (in age only) running the university. My high school hiking club had more “adult” 17-18 year old leaders than these law schools.

#3 Mark on 2023-03-19 21:55 (Reply)

Except they would still get jobs with every Soros DA!
And would become the NEXT Soros DAs.

#4 Mark Matis on 2023-03-20 06:22 (Reply)

Mark is right. Too many would consider "disclosure" as a mark of honor. Exile, with no refunds. It is already common for felons to have multiple convictions with no consequences. In that business, no one cares about disclosure. Heavy punishment along with disclosure might be useful.

You used to have to be "smart" to get into law school. "Smart" is apparently no longer required.

#5 Mike-SMO on 2023-03-20 07:22 (Reply)

>Too many would consider "disclosure" as a mark of honor.

Apparently not. Other news reports say that these students are "demanding" their names be removed from news reports about the incident.

That said, I suspect you're right on balance. The mark is probably a net-negative for judicial clerkships... but a net-positive for the NGO, executive agencies, big law, and capital hill markets.

#5.1 OldCurmudgeon on 2023-03-20 11:03 (Reply)

You ask the best questions, Bird Dog. Why do they behave like children? Because it's been working for them. Anyone who has raised actual children knows this. The solution is to get them to associate negative outcomes with misbehavior. The traditional English language word for that is "punishment".

Does that help?

#6 Hairless Joe on 2023-03-20 08:49 (Reply)

Why do they behave like (spoiled) children?

- As others have said: Because they can.

#7 Aggie on 2023-03-20 08:55 (Reply)

There is a human desire to be a bully. To be part of a crowd and tar and feather someone, or lynch them even metaphorically. That is what this is, this act and all of the left wing demonstrations and activists events. Antifa and BLM are the Brown Shirts of the left and they act as hired and trained thugs to drum up this kind of bullying.

#8 OneGuy on 2023-03-20 10:52 (Reply)

Do not miss the real point of this kind of activism and cancel culture. There is something that must be censored, something that this judge might have said that cannot be heard. AND even more important; there is a movement to censor a very large segment of our population and society. We have a serious problem and are looking more and more like Germany in the 30's than like a constitutional republic. These students are being used. While it may point out that they are too stupid or naive to deserve a degree never mind become lawyers the larger problem that needs attention is those who are using them. We, the colleges, the government, the citizens, need to expose these people to the sunlight. Names, photos and positions in these organizations. everyone should be held responsible for what they day and do. If they are most people will choose to say and do things that are more honest and respectable. I always told my kids when they said or did something wrong to always act as though their grandparents were watching them. That is good advice for everyone.

#9 JustMe on 2023-03-20 12:41 (Reply)

Because they are preparing for the bugs and pods wards of the state glorious utopian future that awaits and their soft weak worthless parents never told them NO.

#10 Ragnarok on 2023-03-20 15:13 (Reply)

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