Posted on 02/01/2022 4:07:03 PM PST by TigerClaws
Students at the Georgetown University Law Center reportedly requested a place for them to “cry” Monday as the school’s dean addressed the controversy surrounding incoming lecturer Ilya Shapiro.
Shapiro, a legal scholar with the libertarian think tank the CATO Institute, is in hot water after he tweeted criticism of President Joe Biden’s commitment to name the first Black woman to the Supreme Court.
Biden made the promise during his presidential campaign, but the opportunity to honor it was presented last week when Associate Justice Stephen Breyer announced he was stepping down.
Biden quickly confirmed the next jurist on the high court would match his criteria, which led to criticism from Shapiro, who tweeted:
Objectively best pick for Biden is Sri Srinivasan, who is solid prog & v smart. Even has identify politics benefit of being first Asian (Indian) American. But alas doesn’t fit into the latest intersectionality hierarchy so we’ll get lesser black woman. Thank heaven for small favors?
Because Biden said he’s only consider[ing] black women for SCOTUS, his nominee will always have an asterisk attached. Fitting that the Court takes up affirmative action next term.
Shapiro later apologized but doubled down on his message that he feels it is unfair to other potential candidates for Biden to focus only on replacing Breyer with a Black woman.
Georgetown Law Dean William Treanor announced on Monday that Shapiro, who has yet to come before students, was suspended, pending an investigation.
Nate Hochman with National Review reported that Treanor addressed a Black student group in-person Monday after a sit-down was requested so a “reparations” package could be discussed. Hochman wrote:
Dean Treanor himself was front-and-center, accompanied by Mitch Bailin, GULC’s associate vice president and dean of students; Sheila Foster, the associate dean for equity and inclusion; and Amy Uelmen, the director of the school’s “Mission & Ministry” program.
A chastened-looking Treanor spent more than an hour answering questions from what appeared to be the BLSA leadership team in a closed auditorium. The dean, striking an apologetic tone, echoed the language of the activists in the crowd, assuring the assembled students that he was “appalled” by the “painful” nature of Shapiro’s tweets and promising to “listen,” “learn” and ultimately “do better.”
Hochman further reported that Treanor received a lukewarm reception, as students had questions about Shapiro’s presence on campus, as well as concerns about the school’s commitment to diversity.
Per Hochman, some students were so emotional, they requested a proper place to cry:
At another juncture, a student demanded that the dean cover for the classes that the activists had missed as a result of the sit-in, suggesting that the move should be part of a “reparations” package for black students. She followed up by insisting that students be given a designated place on campus to cry. “Is there an office they can go to?” she asked. “I don’t know what it would look like, but if they want to cry, if they need to break down, where can they go? Because we’re at a point where students are coming out of class to go to the bathroom to cry.”
Let’s think about how low college standards are such that the children described in that article are actually admitted.
Maybe they could use a diaper change and a bottle while they’re at it. Bunch of big babies.
Safe space? Send them to a New York subway platform to cry...
Huh. Back in the day, future lawyers were made of sterner stuff.
Huh. Back in the day, future lawyers were made of sterner stuff.
Huh. Back in the day, future lawyers were made of sterner stuff.
Worse than college. This is freakin’ law school. Who in the hell would want a cry-baby for a lawyer? What anyone with a brain wants in a lawyer is the opposite of a cry-baby. You want a lawyer who makes *other people* cry.
Georgetown law students. Probably have bright futures in government.
Show me video of the crying. I don’t believe it.
My bucket of liberal tears is running low.
Definitely State Dept. candidates.
Well, say now!
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Wah friggin wah.... go grab your binkies while your at it.
Wait until a courtroom judge makes them cry...In front of everybody
More like yelling and screaming. Just like when rioting.
That kind of emo drama is trendy for some college girls. They want to tell each other how much they cried as they studied for finals. My son noticed girls doing this last semester. He asked me if girls went on like that back when I was in college. Uh, no. Back in the 80s we would have thought that was childish.
Animal House :
Dean Vernon Wormer : Here are your grade point averages.
Mr. Kroger: two C's, two D's, and an F. That's a 1.2. Congratulations, Kroger. You're at the top of the Delta pledge class.
Mr. Dorfman? Flounder : [drunk] Hello!
Dean Vernon Wormer : 0.2... Fat, drunk, and stupid is no way to go through life, son. Mr. Hoover, president of Delta house? 1.6; four C's and an F. A fine example you set!
Daniel Simpson Day... HAS no grade point average. All courses incomplete.
Mr. Blutarsky... zero... point... zero.
Someone should get in there with a video camera and post it on youtube. It would be hilarious.
My 8th grade shop teacher, Mr. Hubbell used to warn us not to be what he called a “weak sister”. It was an all boys class of course, 1966.
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