Good grief

Hundreds of silent masked students surround Stanford Law dean for apology to heckled federal judge

Mark my word- one day, one day. There's no avoiding it, because these children are completely brainwashed and they will be moving into positions of power in this country.

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Mark my word- one day, one day. There's no avoiding it, because these children are completely brainwashed and they will be moving into positions of power in this country.

And even as they act out the very attributes of the brown shirts, they will continue in blissful ignorance, believing they are the opposite.

Is there anything more dangerous or sad than a human, convinced of its own righteousness?

Woke comes directly from Marxism. It is Marxism that's been expanded from simple rich vs poor to now include race, gender, etc.

At its core, Marxism is about overthrowing the oppressors by any means necessary, without regard for basic human rights. Marxist minions are encouraged to do damage.

Unlike modern conservatism, classical liberalism, and libertarianism which all put respect for individual rights as the foundation for achieving maximal individual success.

Iow, we are in a heavily asymmetric culture war. They have already deployed their black hooded army called antifa. Other useful idiots are inspired and emboldened.

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Originally posted by Fly-Sig:
Iow, we are in a heavily asymmetric culture war. They have already deployed their black hooded army called antifa. Other useful idiots are inspired and emboldened.

How ill my fear they by my mercy scan,
Beware the fury of a patient man.
Law they require, let Law then show her face;
They could not be content to look on Grace,
Her hinder parts, but with a daring eye
To tempt the terror of her front and die.

- John Dryden

A) I have a hard time believing these were law students. The masks and the heckling is the antithesis of the personality which functions in law

B) Stanford law has 550 students. It seems unlikely that they would have a crowd of that size.

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Originally posted by parabellum:
"Don’t feel sorry for me," he told the outlet. "I’m a life-tenured federal judge. What outrages me is that these kids are being treated like dogshit by fellow students and administrators."

This is a perfect response. And, he's right about when they make it into a law firm. Just look at what this type has done at the New York Times.

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Originally posted by bionic218:

Is there anything more dangerous or sad than a human, convinced of its own righteousness?

“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience. They may be more likely to go to Heaven yet at the same time likelier to make a Hell of earth. This very kindness stings with intolerable insult. To be "cured" against one's will and cured of states which we may not regard as disease is to be put on a level of those who have not yet reached the age of reason or those who never will; to be classed with infants, imbeciles, and domestic animals.” - C.S. Lewis

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Originally posted by Aglifter:
A) I have a hard time believing these were law students. The masks and the heckling is the antithesis of the personality which functions in law

B) Stanford law has 550 students. It seems unlikely that they would have a crowd of that size.

Don't underestimate the student body of a school, regardless of reputation. Stanford Law is regarded as second only to Harvard Law in the country in ranking of prestige. Perhaps more than any other scholastic discipline, law professors are very influential in the placement of internship and clerking opportunities for their students, not to mention leveraging their influence and access to the rest of the country's judiciary.
You might recognize some names who are current or emeritus faculty members:

Barbara Fried - professor at Stanford Law School, advocate of distributive justice popularly known as 'effective altruism', co-founder of Mind the Gap the secretive ultra-wealthy PAC aimed at underwriting key Democrat political campaigns, mother of Samuel Bankman-Fried.

Joseph Bankman - professor at Stanford Law School, leading national academic on tax law with several casebooks of note, wrote Elizabeth Warren's tax simplification bill which was defeated, father of Samuel Bankman-Fried.

Larry Kramer - former Dean of Stanford Law School and current president of the Hewlett Foundation one of the preeminent private foundations ($14b in assets) in the country towards progressive & liberal grant giving. He co-signed Bankman-Fried's bail bond of $500k.

Paul Brest- Chairman of the board at Stanford Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, former Dean of Stanford Law and former president of the Hewlett Foundation (see above), he termed 'originalism' as a derogatory towards Constitutional scholarship, co-founder of Mind the Gap (see above).

Pamela Karlan - professor on-leave serving as deputy assistant attorney general civil rights in Justice Dept., was a candidate to replace SCOTUS Justice Souter, described as "a full-throated, unapologetic liberal torchbearer"

Not surprised at the number of Marxist, leftist, progressives in law schools, it's been one of the main tenets of the left.

Get enough liberal justices interpreting laws in accordance with the lefts agenda, then you establish case law that will change the way the constitution and laws are used forever.

Obama left Hillary all those open judge seats, a gift for her ascension to the Presidency, thus continuing the agenda for decades including SCOTUS.

IF anything, Trump win damaged this agenda, and now we're seeing how deep the rabbit hole really goes....

Perhaps the quote from The Matrix applies

You take the blue pill - the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill - you stay in Wonderland and I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes

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Originally posted by Aglifter:
Stanford law has 550 students. It seems unlikely that they would have a crowd of that size.

It appears you are correct to doubt the stated size of the protest crowd. In an interview on Fox News, Stanford student Walker Stewart told John Roberts that "On Monday, fifty out of the sixty students...were protesting her apology..."

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Originally posted by parabellum:

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Originally posted by Aglifter:
Stanford law has 550 students. It seems unlikely that they would have a crowd of that size.

It appears you are correct to doubt the stated size of the protest crowd. In an interview on Fox News, Stanford student Walker Stewart told John Roberts that "On Monday, fifty out of the sixty students...were protesting her apology..."

7 Updates On Judge Kyle Duncan And Stanford Law
The 50 out of 60 were the students from her class, the remaining participants forming this 'corridor of shame' can be inferred as other students at the school, which numbered no more than 100 to include those from the concluded class, certainly not 'hundreds' as sources have parroted.

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[UPDATE (4:55 p.m.): Two Stanford Law sources—one who is a member of FedSoc, and one who is not a member of FedSoc (or NLG or ACS, for that matter)—told me that the number of protestors at yesterday’s (silent) protest was more like 60 to 100, not “hundreds.” According to one of my sources, “For context, there are only about 180 students in the 1L class. I recognized nearly all protestors as 1Ls. I would guess that less than a third of the class was represented. That would be no more than 60 people. There were a few 2Ls or 3Ls there, but not more than a handful. I'd guess about 70 people, at maximum, were in attendance—equal to or less than the number that showed up for the March 9th protest. There are nearly 600 students in our law school.” In addition, this source said they did not see any cheering or crying after Dean Martinez left the building. If anyone has photos or videos of the Monday protest, I would welcome them; I was obviously not present, so I’m only as accurate as my sources and whatever supporting evidence they provide to me.]

This dean of inclusion (bullshit position) Steinbach is the worst of this new woke generation. She is not doing any of this because it causes "harm" or she cares for others. You can see it on her self righteous face. She craves the power, she enjoys shutting people up, and even more so if they are male and white. She is a bitter, miserable person and her behavior is petty.

I agree wholeheartedly.

New video shows Stanford protesters heckling Trump judge as DEI dean appears to smirk

This "DEI" idiot has the emotional maturity of a 14 year old girl.

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Originally posted by corsair:
7 Updates On Judge Kyle Duncan And Stanford Law

That's an informative page. Of particular interest to me was this letter.

Good grief. What are these kids made of?

"Threat Assessment"?? Psychologist? For what??

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Threat Assessment: Dr. Alejandro Martinez, a clinical psychologist with 30+ years at Stanford, is available to counsel
students who are not feeling safe. He can read social media interactions and direct communications to assess whether the
implied or actual threats are likely to become a reality. Dr. Martinez works for the Office of the General Counsel. He
sometimes works with a team that includes a lawyer from the OGC and a member of the Stanford Department of Public
Safety, but can work without DPS if the people he advises prefer that. Dr. Martinez is available tomorrow, much of Monday,
and Tuesday afternoon. I don’t have a good sense of how many people would be interested in talking with him. If you would
like to talk with him soon, please email me by tomorrow, Sunday March 12 at noon. If a number of students would like to
speak with him I will arrange a zoom meeting for sometime in the next few days. If only a few students need this service
now, I will refer people individually. And of course, you can reach out to me for contact information later on if the need arises.

Social Media Threats and Distractions? Good heavens, you started this shit!

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Social Media Threats and Distractions: Student organizations should consider pausing their student organization social
media accounts until this news cycle winds down, as the law school and university have done. Try your best not to engage
on Twitter or any other social media platform, as issues tend to escalate and trolls are looking for a fight. If you are seeing
negative posts on Instagram or Twitter, you can make your accounts or your student org accounts private for now. If you
have not already done so, consider removing your individual names from your SLS websites

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Many of us are feeling raw and hurt right now. That’s understandable. Use the resources
above and the wonderful counselors at CAPS and therapists at SLS if you need help dealing with your hurt and anger.

"Raw and hurt"? You attack an invited speaker, interrupt his talk, and you are feeling "raw and hurt"??

You buncha coddled prima donna bags of nothing. Weaklings! My God, how things have changed since I was that age. These kids are vacuous, narcissistic drama queens! And they're filling and stacking sandbags in preparation for an assault to which they will not be subjected, because they are completely protected, despite their expressions of fear. Sickening.

One day. One day, gentlemen, they're really going to need those sandbags.

I don’t have a link to what Nikita said.
Something about we shall bury you from inside.

I could be wrong but it sure looks like they’re friggin’ here, alive and well. Bent on destruction of my country.

Think I’ll play Merle, “The Fightin’ Side of Me”.
It always settles me down because I know Merle is correct.

The more you read through some of the postings on various sites, you get a better picture of who comprises a chunk of the student body at Stanford Law, at least many of the non-Federalist Society members. This is a very sad picture of the future of this country's legal minds, a leading institution has not only bowed to this social pressure but, taken on faculty to encourage and fan its flames. If anything, this should serve as to highlight to moderates, let alone conservatives, that the institutions of higher learning, are anything but. Firms considering new hires and judges who are evaluating clerks should be taking notice.

That Dean Steinbach needs to be fired and returned to her East Bay cave.
Those admins who were in-attendance and didn't nothing also should be fired for negligence.
The students who participated in this should be disciplined, their names published and be submitted to the State Bar Association for all 50 states for review upon those students taking their Exam.

For the first time ever, there’s a law school I’d enjoy teaching at.

They’d never hire me, or any lawyer on here, but shaming snowflakes trying to be lawyers, would be very entitle the few hours they’d permit me.

Entertaining for the few hours they’d permit me to teach - the site displays oddly on safari

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Originally posted by parabellum:
New video shows Stanford protesters heckling Trump judge as DEI dean appears to smirk

This "DEI" idiot has the emotional maturity of a 14 year old girl.

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Originally posted by corsair:
7 Updates On Judge Kyle Duncan And Stanford Law

That's an informative page. Of particular interest to me was this letter.

Good grief. What are these kids made of?

"Threat Assessment"?? Psychologist? For what??

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Threat Assessment: Dr. Alejandro Martinez, a clinical psychologist with 30+ years at Stanford, is available to counsel
students who are not feeling safe. He can read social media interactions and direct communications to assess whether the
implied or actual threats are likely to become a reality. Dr. Martinez works for the Office of the General Counsel. He
sometimes works with a team that includes a lawyer from the OGC and a member of the Stanford Department of Public
Safety, but can work without DPS if the people he advises prefer that. Dr. Martinez is available tomorrow, much of Monday,
and Tuesday afternoon. I don’t have a good sense of how many people would be interested in talking with him. If you would
like to talk with him soon, please email me by tomorrow, Sunday March 12 at noon. If a number of students would like to
speak with him I will arrange a zoom meeting for sometime in the next few days. If only a few students need this service
now, I will refer people individually. And of course, you can reach out to me for contact information later on if the need arises.

Social Media Threats and Distractions? Good heavens, you started this shit!

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Social Media Threats and Distractions: Student organizations should consider pausing their student organization social
media accounts until this news cycle winds down, as the law school and university have done. Try your best not to engage
on Twitter or any other social media platform, as issues tend to escalate and trolls are looking for a fight. If you are seeing
negative posts on Instagram or Twitter, you can make your accounts or your student org accounts private for now. If you
have not already done so, consider removing your individual names from your SLS websites

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Many of us are feeling raw and hurt right now. That’s understandable. Use the resources
above and the wonderful counselors at CAPS and therapists at SLS if you need help dealing with your hurt and anger.

"Raw and hurt"? You attack an invited speaker, interrupt his talk, and you are feeling "raw and hurt"??

You buncha coddled prima donna bags of nothing. Weaklings! My God, how things have changed since I was that age. These kids are vacuous, narcissistic drama queens! And they're filling and stacking sandbags in preparation for an assault to which they will not be subjected, because they are completely protected, despite their expressions of fear. Sickening.

One day. One day, gentlemen, they're really going to need those sandbags.

All they had to do was not attend but no, where is the drama and attention in that. Social media feeds these fucking narcissists and they can't get enough of it.

This is getting good. It's blowing up in their faces. Leftists are such hypocrites.

When they shouted down this federal judge, they were so proud of themselves and I have no doubt that not a single one of them anticipated the push-back and publicity their childish, shameful antics have gotten them. They are now getting a far more significant lesson than apparently they've gotten in their ridiculous classes. If they try to behave this way when they get into the real world, they're going to get their asses handed to them.

The only beauty in all of this is the fact that every last bit of what is going on with regards to this shameful incident is the fault of these tantrum-throwing, clueless leftist children.

Stanford Law protesters demand to have names redacted from news reports

Last week, students at Stanford Law disrupted a Federalist Society event that featured U.S. Circuit Court Judge Kyle Duncan. Duncan was prevented from speaking by unruly protesters and berated by the school's associate dean of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion.

Now, some of the protest leaders, many of whom shared the names and pictures of Federalist Society members online and in posters, are unhappy because the Washington Free Beacon published their names.

"NEW: The same students who plastered the names and faces of the Stanford Federalist Society all over the school are now demanding anonymity from the Free Beacon. They say we've violated their right to privacy by identifying them. You can't make it up," Aaron Sibarium, a journalist for the Washington Free Beacon, tweeted Friday.

"On Sunday, I identified board members of the Stanford National Lawyers Guild--one of the groups responsible for the posters--who in a public statement described the protest as 'Stanford Law School at its best.' A few hours later, the board demanded I redact their names," Sibarium reported.

Sibarium said that Lily Bou, a board member of the Stanford National Lawyers Guild, sent an email demanding the Free Beacon remove her name and those of other students from their reporting. "Listing our names serves no purpose other than to invite abuse and harassment," she wrote.

"I wonder what purpose the posters of the fedsoc board served," Sibarium wrote.

"You do not have our permission to reference or quote any portion of this email in a future piece," she added.

"Needless to say, that's not how the First Amendment works," Sibarium commented.

He went on, "We've gotten similar complaints about publishing images—pulled from social media—of Stanford Law School dean Jenny Martinez's classroom, which protesters covered end to end in flyers after she issued an apology to Judge Duncan."

"We received a note from Mary Cate Hickman demanding that we ‘anonymize the face of the student in the red hoodie’ because 'California is a two-party consent state, and you have no right to publish this student's identity/likeness/face without consent,'" he tweeted.

The reporter noted that two-party consent only applies to surreptitious audio recordings and that there is no expectation of privacy during a public protest at a public law school event where participants freely post video and images. He also pointed out that the protest has been covered on national television and publications, further eroding any expectation of privacy.

The Free Beacon wrote an editorial about the continuing aftermath of the protests, concluding:

"What's eminently clear from the drama unfolding in Palo Alto is that while Stanford law students may be the vanguard of an anti-constitutional revolution, they don't know much about the law. Where Stanford has failed to educate them in the limits of privacy and the rights of a free press, we will endeavor to fill the void with our continuing coverage of this ugly affair."

Free speech is under attack on college campuses across America. At UC Davis on Tuesday, conservative commentator Charlie Kirk's speech was disrupted by protesters who smashed windows and clashed with police.

According to one survey, less than half Republican college students feel safe expressing their political views on campus. Many students fear retribution in personal and professional settings for sharing their conservative beliefs.