Teachers second guess letter grades as they search for a fairer way https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2022/02/28/letter-grades-grading-a-f/ Part 2 of 2
UC Hastings Law Students Silence Conservative Speaker, Demand Anti-Racism Training "It's too bad that a heckler's veto prevailed here," says Ilya Shapiro. https://reason.com/2022/03/02/ilya-...school-students-protest-racism-supreme-court/
If he tweeted "lesser black woman" and "asterisk appointee" to get attention, then he certainly received it. Not really the best posterboy for being a victim, since he probably doesn't know enough black female peers to artfully convey his awesome opinions.
more on the Shapiro incident https://reason.com/volokh/2022/03/03/ilya-shapiro-is-shouted-down-at-u-c-hastings/
As a graduate of CAL where Hastings law school is stuff like this bothers me and I wish those students wouldn't have done that. Even back as a student I've criticized how often CAL students have tried to shout down voices they don't agree. I was very dismayed and strongly criticized when a mob set fire to the UC Student Union when Milo Yannoupolis was going to speak. As an institution and as students they should be exposed to different voices and opinions that many of them don't agree with. They should look to this opportunity to challenge such views intellectually than just say they don't want to hear them. All of that said the students are within their rights to protests and disagree with those views. While I find what they did counterproductive free speech does extend to the right to protests. Like all rights though it isn't without responsibility.
Berkley Law (formerly Boalt) is the law school at UC Berkley (aka CAL). Hastings is another UC Law School in San Francisco, not affiliated with any undergraduate campus.
counterpoint: what if the person speaking is an abject troll like Milo Yannoupolis who debates in bad faith? What would be productive in intellecually debating someone like him? The best course of action for those students would be to ignore him. The right gets off on outrage by the left and that fuels people like Milo and his clout.
I agree Milo Yannoupolis is a troll pretty much like what we see in most social media. In that case ignore him. It doesn't mean you burn down the ASUC because you don't like that CAL Republicans invited him to speak to get a rise out of the Libs.
probably deserves its own thread Five Florida Middle School Students Arrested and Charged with Hate Crimes According to arrest reports, the children said it was "Opposite Day" and yelled "brown power" while kicking and punching a group of white students. https://www.theroot.com/five-florida-middle-school-students-arrested-and-charge-1848642714 excerpt: The police report also stated one victim was hit with a stick and charger cords. Another victim told NBC Miami he was targeted because he was white, in a sort of reparations tactic. “After they jumped me, they said, this is, like, revenge for what they did in the 1700s for slavery,” said the child via NBC. more at the link
There we go. Confirmation for scared white do-nothing parents to roll back the 70s for fear their angels will get harassed and persecuted by their color. Easy peasy, lemon squeezy.
So the right continues to try to suppress speech around race, meanwhile, they are upset when their race baiting heroes get shouted down by students? I don't think they have a leg to stand on.
I don't agree with hate crime laws. Why is it worse if they punched these kids yelling, "brown power" than it would be if they were yelling "nerd". The whole concept of protected classes flies right in the face of the equal protection clause, as far as I am concerned.
and here I thought beating kids up as "revenge for what they did in the 1700s for slavery" was the real story
Dumb people say and do dumb things. What else is there to comment on that? Obviously, no one alive today is responsible for slavery in the 1700s. That is the way linear time works. You also cannot really take revenge against someone who hasn't wronged you (or someone else, for whom you are taking revenge), this is part of the definition of revenge. It doesn't help that they are being taught things that would instill such hatred in them, but bad ideas are always going to be presented and stupid people are always going to accept them and take stupid actions based on them.
I don't know, sounds like they have at least a rudimentary concept of "reparations" and an idea of exacting those reparations from the current generation. They may lack the idiom with which to express the idea, but clearly they are expressing something of the kind. To me that's interesting. That also separates this from a generic hate crime. They are expressing a reason for their actions, and presumably they may also believe that reason justifies their actions. Which is also interesting.
Except that this was a case of equal application of the law. This wasn't about a specific protected class as the attackers were charged with a racial motivation for their assault. It doesn't matter that in this incident it was black children attacking white children.
