Posted on 06/18/2020 6:54:24 AM PDT by MarvinStinson
Cornell University's Black Law Students Association has issued a call for fellow students to boycott Professor William Jacobson's classes in the wake of his criticism of the Black Lives Matter movement
The Black Law Students Association is refusing to debate a Cornell University law professor over his criticism of the Black Lives Matter movement—and instead calling on students to boycott his classes.
The BLSA, which says it advocates for the interests of black law students, is waging a campaign against Cornell's William Jacobson for remarks made about the Black Lives Matter movement on his popular blog, Legal Insurrection, which provides news commentary from a conservative perspective.
In an open letter posted to Facebook on Monday, and which is now circulating among Cornell law students and faculty members, the group is pressing members and student allies to avoid Jacobson’s classes. "As the course selection period approaches, we encourage our membership and our allies to reconsider studying under an individual whose views perpetuate hatred towards their fellow students," the letter says.
The controversy erupted after Jacobson wrote earlier this month that the explosion of outrage from Black Lives Matter activists in the wake of George Floyd’s death at the hands of a Minneapolis police officer was part of a left-wing campaign "to implement an anti-American, anti-Capitalist agenda."
That blog post and another critical of the activist movement have sparked calls for his dismissal, and nearly two dozen Cornell faculty members, in a letter published in the student newspaper, denounced what they characterize as a "smear campaign against Black Lives Matter."
That letter, in which the faculty members expressed their solidarity with the BLSA, has drawn criticism from prominent legal scholars including George Washington University's Jonathan Turley, who expressed concern about the censorious environment on university campuses that, he argued, has led activists to attempt to silence those they disagree with rather than to engage with their arguments.
The BLSA letter goes beyond Jacobson himself, calling on Cornell administrators to screen prospective faculty members for evidence of views they deem racist. "We further urge the administration to critically examine the views of individuals they intend to employ," the letter states.
In the wake of the dust up, Jacobson challenged the BLSA to a public debate, an invitation the group declined, arguing that "faculty members who challenge students to debate them on the motives of those fighting to preserve Black life are clearly more interested in amplifying their own agendas than engaging in thoughtful and reflective discourse."
an invitation the group declined,
arguing that
"faculty members who challenge students to debate them on the motives of those fighting to preserve Black life are clearly more interested in amplifying their own agendas than engaging in thoughtful and reflective discourse."
Maybe the Black Law Students Association need to use the main stream BLM tactics to get the attention of the school?
Lives Matter!
If you need a color
in front of those words
YOU are a racist
Fail them.
>>”faculty members who challenge students to debate them on the motives of those fighting to preserve Black life are clearly more interested in amplifying their own agendas than engaging in thoughtful and reflective discourse.”<<
IOW, Cancel Culture. Win the day by silencing opposing voices.
Shouldn’t the BLSA eschew ALL law schools?
Laws and their application are clearly structural racism along with Law Schools.
Dissension towards any narrative put forth by blacks is vilified and not allowed. This is their way to prevent logic and truth from being presented and to further their warped and false agenda. I saw this in Black History books thirty years ago and now we have academics with the false knowledge of those books teaching others.
Jacobson challenged the BLSA to a public debate,
an invitation the group declined,
arguing that “it would hinder our attempts to implement an anti-American, anti-Capitalist agenda.”
Fixed it.
How did the White Law Students Association respond?...
They were busy studying for finals.
So no one can have an opposing view. He didn’t even say anything inflammatory.
Straight up fascism.
First amendment for me butt not for thee. Who says you’re guaranteed that anyway?
Why isn’t the Black Law Students Association recognized as a racist organization merely because of its name and the fact that membership is available only to blacks?
The same is true for the Congressional Black Caucus. The CBC is worse because almost all of its activities are financed by taxpayer money. Does the CBC provide for its own offices and meeting place, pay for its own office supplies, telephones, printers and employees, or does it depend solely on taxpayer funds for these necessities?
They cowards and pansies, unworthy of law licenses.
Negroes are snowflakes.
Cowards
What happened to “Academic Freedom” the liberals and Commies so admired?
What happened to “Academic Freedom” the liberals and Commies so admired?
“Law” students who don’t believe in freedom of speech? Cornell has failed.
Whitewashing the Antisemitic beginnings of BDS?
August 25, 2015
https://www.campusfairness.org/whitewashing-the-antisemitic-beginnings-of-bds/
As the BDS movement is currently marking ten years since its founding, there have been a number of articles outlining its history.
At the popular Legal Insurrection blog, William A. Jacobson offers sharp criticism of a related and widely distributed article by the Associated Press (AP). Rejecting the AP claim that the BDS movement owes its existence to the efforts of “a small group of Palestinian activists” who “had a novel idea,” Jacobson makes the case that in reality, BDS “was the result of a multi-year organized effort for a global boycott of Israel, most prominently in a boycott call issued at the 2001 UN Durban Conference which was so anti-Semitic the U.S. walked out.” Moreover, Jacobson points out that “[while] the Durban conference gave birth to the BDS movement, the seed of that boycott strategy to replicate the boycott of South Africa was planted at a preparatory conference in Tehran.”
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