Posted on 03/30/2022 8:12:43 AM PDT by Rummyfan
At most law schools, the first few weeks of property law are spent on foundational cases of British common law. At Georgetown University, they are spent on structural racism and cultural appropriation.
Students in professor Madhavi Sunder's mandatory first-year course learn on day one that the history of American property law is "the history of dispossession and appropriation," according to videos of the course reviewed by the Washington Free Beacon. Lecture slides from the first month of coursework trace the "birth" of modern property law not to English courts, but to "Native dispossession and the enslavement of African Americans." "Possession," one slide asserts, "is a legal term of art for a settler capitalist society.
These legacies of oppression "continue in contemporary doctrines" of property, Sunder said on the first day of class this semester. For example, her slides explain, "Intellectual Property has a cultural appropriation problem," especially when it comes to black choreographers: Their dance moves were allegedly appropriated by the popular video game Fortnite, and by white influencers on TikTok.
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As one of my profs said back in the day:
The society which scorns excellence in plumbing as a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy: neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water.
We are going to have terrible lawyers. Hopefully we'll still have competent plumbers.
Well said!
There’s been a coup d’état.
Rainbow-flag Cartel Party has taken power after overthrowing the 1619 nation.
They don’t even believe the United States was legitimate or existed autonomously.
Still trying to figure out why cultural appropriation is supposed to be a bad thing. It represents acceptance and unity.
Expect every closing argument to be “the Chewbacca defense”.
Some will be judges too.
OMG. Can lawyering actually sink lower?
Yes.
How about a course on “The perversion of successful, free cultures by irresponsible professors in over-priced institutions of higher education?”
That’s what happens when you let hostile, opportunist foreigners into your country and perversely include them in your nation.
The “professor” seeks to delegitimize the very foundation of the country - the concept of property - not because they are actually against it, but because they intend to take it.
Georgetown sits at the center of the empire.
They reflect the woke and arrogant thinking which is uniformly accepted at the center of the empire.
And some Republicans are voting to put this hatred in the Supreme Court!
If you ever wondered how high cultures descend into dark ages, we’ve been watching it happen in real-time for the last 60 years.
As long as the States do not dumb down their bar exams or start accepting “woke” crap instead of the law in an answer
The great political scientist Frederic Bastiat, in his classic book The Law, defined property this way. Note how it encompasses much more than mere objects and tangible possessions, but is wrapped up in the very concept of Liberty:“We hold from God the gift which includes all others. This gift is life — physical, intellectual, and moral life.These words are found at the very beginning of Bastiat’s The Law. They are at the beginning because Bastiat understood that there can be no comprehension of Liberty without a correct understanding, first, of the importance of private property and individual stewardship. Property is the root of Liberty. It is the foundation of free will. It is the essence of personhood. In a very real sense, there is no life – at least, no life that satisfies and uplifts – without property. What is our life without our God-given right to own and manage private property?“But life cannot maintain itself alone. The Creator of life has entrusted us with the responsibility of preserving, developing, and perfecting it. In order that we may accomplish this, He has provided us with a collection of marvelous faculties. And He has put us in the midst of a variety of natural resources. By the application of our faculties to these natural resources we convert them into products, and use them. This process is necessary in order that life may run its appointed course.
“Life, faculties, production — in other words, individuality, liberty, property — this is man. And in spite of the cunning of artful political leaders, these three gifts from God precede all human legislation, and are superior to it. Life, liberty, and property do not exist because men have made laws. On the contrary, it was the fact that life, liberty, and property existed beforehand that caused men to make laws in the first place.”
They’re racists...they want to be, and they want their cultures to be seen as separate and unassimilated. They do not seek unity, they seek division
That’s a good quote from your prof.
“ Sunder quotes the “antiracist” author Ijeoma Oluo, who defines cultural appropriation as the “adoption or exploitation of another culture by a more dominant culture.”
So forget the whole “melting pot” thing, huh? If whites won’t stand up for themselves the country is lost.
Yeah, I figure that a Georgetown law degree has to cost about $250K.
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