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MASSIVE Left-Political Corruption of the US Academic System...
Total 1984 Psychological Indoctrination Camp from Kindergarten through PhD...
Corrupt "Teachers Unions" are doubly unfireable government employees...
Wokeism Socialism Communism Marxism Violence Keynesian MMT Debt Slavery
Discrimination Racism Theft Censorship and Sexual debauchery taught in
schools...
Sending your children to these Indoctrination Institutions is committing them
into a lifetime of mass formation subjugation and Woke Failure... don't do it.
Everything needed for at least K~BSc levels is available online at home and
in local study groups with peers, for no more cost than internet and
some supplies.


Federal Judge Calls On Stanford To Fire DEI Dean That Participated In
Student-Led Revolt

https://freebeacon.com/campus/dogshit-federal-judge-decries-disruption-of-his-remarks-by-stanford-law-students-and-calls-for-termination-of-the-stanford-dean-who-joined-the-protesters/
https://jonathanturley.org/2023/03/12/no-squeeze-at-stanford-university-president-and-law-dean-issue-apology-to-judge-duncan-that-omits-one-critical-thing/
https://jonathanturley.org/2022/11/29/zero-tolerance-survey-finds-33-of-65-academic-departments-lack-a-single-republican-professor/
https://jonathanturley.org/2023/03/11/is-the-juice-worth-the-squeeze-stanford-dei-dean-joins-mobs-in-denouncing-federal-judge-at-law-school-event/
https:/jonathanturley.org/2022/09/23/crimson-tide-harvard-faculty-has-virtually-eliminated-conservative-professors-but-apparently-that-is-not-a-problem/
https:/jonathanturley.org/2022/03/17/yale-law-students-disrupt-conservative-speaker-then-object-to-the-presence-of-police-as-creating-an-unsafe-environment/
https://twitter.com/FreeBeacon/status/1634426288260743168
https:/jonathanturley.org/2022/08/03/msnbc-remains-silent-after-elie-mystal-unleashes-racist-attack-on-herschel-walker/
https:/jonathanturley.org/2022/03/13/poll-almost-half-of-american-say-that-they-would-rather-flee-than-defend-the-united-states/
https:/jonathanturley.org/2022/03/17/yale-law-students-disrupt-conservative-speaker-then-object-to-the-presence-of-police-as-creating-an-unsafe-environment/
https:/jonathanturley.org/2020/11/02/schapiros-un-safe-zone-northwestern-university-students-attack-police-in-defunding-protest/
https:/jonathanturley.org/2019/10/08/georgetown-law-students-shutdown-acting-homeland-security-secretary-speech-law-school-silent-on-any-action-to-be-taken/
https:/jonathanturley.org/2018/04/17/cuny-law-dean-students-shutting-down-speech-on-free-speech-was-free-speech/
https:/jonathanturley.org/2021/03/23/self-cancellation-cuny-dean-resigns-and-seeks-counseling-after-referring-to-herself-as-a-slaveholder/comment-page-1/
https:/jonathanturley.org/2017/04/18/wellesley-students-editors-endorse-silencing-opposing-speakers-and-declare-hostility-may-be-warranted/
https:/jonathanturley.org/2014/03/21/california-feminism-professor-charged-with-battery-and-theft-in-confrontation-with-pro-life-protesters/

03/12/2023: Last night, Stanford President Marc Tessier-Lavigne and
Law School Dean Jenny Martinez issued a joint apology that is
commendable in its words of regret, but conspicuous in its failure to
promise any action against those who shutdown this event. As Jonathan
Turley explains, it is like expressing regret over the sinking of the
Titanic without addressing the design flaw.

    To paraphrase Steinbach, there will be no “squeeze” coming from
Stanford on the denial of free speech.

    Of course, the letter also does not address the environment of
intolerance at Stanford or the loss of diversity of viewpoints. The
intolerance is reflected in the overwhelmingly Democratic and liberal
makeup of faculties. A new survey of 65 departments in various states
found that 33 do not have a single registered Republican. For these
departments, the systemic elimination of Republican faculty has
finally reached zero, but there is still little recognition of the
crushing bias reflected in these numbers. Others, as discussed below,
have defended the elimination of conservative or Republican faculty as
entirely justified and commendable. Overall, registered Democrats
outnumbered registered Republicans by a margin of over 10-1.

    The survey found 61 Republican professors across 65 departments at
seven universities while it also found 667 professors identified as
Democrats based on their political party registration or voting
history.

    That is why I am less than impressed by this letter. After all,
Dean Martinez’s first response was to make excuses for her DEI dean.
Martinez explained that Steinbach’s condemnation of the judge for
trying to speak publicly was a “well-intentioned” “attempt[] at
managing the room” that just “went awry.”

Much has gone “awry” in higher education but it is not a question of
managing a room but managing free speech.

As we detailed earlier, Federal Judge Kyle Duncan has called on
Stanford University to fire the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Dean
who participated in a student-led revolt against his appearance at the
law school.

Judge Duncan appeared at Stanford Law to speak at an event hosted by
the Federalist Society chapter on campus.

The event quickly turned sour after protestors heckled him, accusing
him of transphobia and suppressing black voters.

After the video and story went viral, Federal Judge Kyle Duncan said
he was treated like “dogshit” during his visit...

    “Don’t feel sorry for me. I’m a life-tenured federal judge. What
outrages me is that these kids are being treated like dogshit by
fellow students and administrators.”

...and requested that Stanford Law terminate the administrator that
disrupted him, according to an interview in the Washington Free
Beacon, adding that he was concerned that:

    “If enough of these kids get into the legal profession, the rule
of law will descend into barbarism.”

As Jonathan Turley detailed in a note yesterday, it was a chilling
reminder of the anti-free speech movement sweeping across our
universities, including our law schools.

For years, free speech has been in a free fall on our campuses. Many
faculty have virtually purged conservatives and libertarians from
their ranks in what has become an academic echo chamber.  It is common
for conservative speakers to be blocked or canceled with the support
of professors and students alike.

Yet, what occurred at Stanford this week shocked even those of us who
have challenged this orthodoxy for years.

The Stanford Federalist Society invited Judge Stuart Kyle Duncan of
the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit to speak on
campus. It is a great opportunity to hear the views of one of the
highest ranked judicial officers in the country.  Some students also
are likely to apply to Duncan for prestigious clerkships so this was
an opportunity to make an important connection.

However, liberal students decided that allowing a conservative judge
to speak on campus is intolerable and set about to “deplatform” him by
shouting him down. It was reminiscent of an equally disgraceful event
at Yale Law School when another conservative speaker was similarly
canceled — the law students then objected to the fact that campus
police were present.

In this event, Duncan was planning to speak on the topic:  “The Fifth
Circuit in Conversation with the Supreme Court: Covid, Guns, and
Twitter.”

A video shows that the students prevented Duncan from speaking and the
judge asked for an administrator to be called in to allow the event to
proceed.

Dean Steinbach then took the stage and, instead of demanding that the
students allow for the event to proceed, Steinback launched into a
babbling attack on the judge for seeking to be heard despite such
objections.

    Stanford Law students shouted down Fifth Circuit appellate judge
Kyle Duncan while he was trying to speak.

    When he asked for an administrator to control the situation,
Stanford’s “associate dean of diversity, equity, and inclusion” got up
and lectured him for nearly 10 minutes pic.twitter.com/tjlUPOIMmQ
    — Washington Free Beacon (@FreeBeacon) March 11, 2023

Steinbach explained:

    “I had to write something down because I am so uncomfortable up
here. And I don’t say that for sympathy, I just say that I am deeply,
deeply uncomfortable.”

One would expect that the next line would be a condemnation of those
who refuse to let opposing views to be heard in the law school.
Instead, it turns out that it was the free speech itself that was so
stressful and painful for the law dean.

Steinbach declared:

    “It’s uncomfortable to say that for many people here, your work
has caused harm.”

After a perfunctory nod to free speech...

    "I’m also uncomfortable because it is my job to say: You are
invited into this space. You are absolutely welcome in this space. In
this space where people learn and, again, live. I really do,
wholeheartedly welcome you. Because me and many people in this
administration do absolutely believe in free speech.

    We believe that it is necessary.

    We believe that the way to address speech that feels abhorrent,
that feels harmful, that literally denies the humanity of people, that
one way to do that is with more speech and not less. And not to shut
you down or censor you or censor the student group that invited you
here. That is hard. That is uncomfortable. And that is a policy and a
principle that I think is worthy of defending, even in this time. Even
in this time. "

Steinbach proceeded to eviscerate it to the delight of the law students:

    "And again I still ask: Is the juice worth the squeeze?"

    “Is it worth the pain that this causes, the division that this
causes? Do you have something so incredibly important to say about
Twitter and guns and Covid that that is worth this impact on the
division of these people.”

It is a familiar argument for many of us in higher education.

Duncan's non-plussed response was simple:

    "What does that mean? I don’t understand..."

Judge Duncan was right to be confused. A law school dean was
legitimating an attack on free speech and supporting the claim that
hearing an opposing legal views on issues like the Second Amendment
was harmful to students.

Free speech is now often portrayed as harmful and threatening to the
safety of the community. Steinbach suggested that it was Judge Duncan
who should be ashamed in trying to speak when others object to his
views, including clearly herself.

Dean Steinbach then encouraged people who opposed Duncan to walk out
in protest. Many did. That was not a problem. The problem was coming
to the event to disrupt it. What is critical is that Steinbach was
asked to step forward as an administrator to speak for the law school,
not another protester.

The response to Steinbach’s shameful intervention was also all too
familiar. MSNBC regular Elie Mystal defended the law students in
preventing the judge from speaking. He called it conservative
“victimization” and whining simply because the students are expressing
themselves.

Mystal is the “justice correspondent” for the Nation Magazine and
writes for Above the Law, a prominent anti-free speech site. He is
known for racist attacks on black conservatives and has called the
Constitution “trash.”

Despite his inflammatory history, I would be the first to oppose
conservatives shouting down Mystal or preventing him from speaking.

Yet, liberals insist that preventing others from speaking is an
exercise of free speech.

Cancel campaigns are now a common occurrence in schools ranging from
Yale to Northwestern to Georgetown.  Blocking others from speaking is
not the exercise of free speech. It is the very antithesis of free
speech. Nevertheless, faculty have supported such claims. CUNY Law
Dean Mary Lu Bilek showed how far this trend has gone. When
conservative law professor Josh Blackman was stopped from speaking
about “the importance of free speech,”  Bilek insisted that disrupting
the speech on free speech was free speech. (Bilek later cancelled
herself and resigned). Even student newspapers have declared opposing
speech to be outside of the protections of free speech.  At University
of California- Santa Barbara, professors actually rallied around a
professor who physically assaulted pro-life advocates and tore down
their display.

Stanford must now decide whether the “juice” of free speech is worth
the “squeeze” of the mob. That distasteful juice mocked by Steinbach
is the very thing that defines and sustains higher education.