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John K Byerlein Jr's avatar

These law students are a disgrace to freedom and the US Constitution. All should never be admitted into the profession and all should get useless degrees reinforcing their immaturity and ignorance. As for the Dean, he is a feckless boob who needs to be replaced ASAP. This is what you get when you indulge whiny, aggressive and immature behavior in children - they become intolerant, arrogant and entitled adults who seek to dominate, destroy and abuse those with whom they disagree with.

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Al Brown's avatar

I understand your reaction, and agree with respect to the Dean. (I think that you misgendered her in your comment, though.)

With respect to the students, it's up to the university to set a standard for civility that includes invited speakers, to enforce it, and to impose sanctions, including severe ones, on those who violate them. If this story is representative, then Stanford seems to be failing at this, and should clean up its act.

Acting immaturely and ignorantly as students alone shouldn't affect their future career prospects, however. If they weren't immature and ignorant, they wouldn't need to be in a university in the first place. They're there to be educated, both intellectually and socially, and the university that's taking their tuition money owes them that service, and at a high level, too, given what they're probably paying. A lot of us were jerks in college, and even in grad school, and still turned out ok in the end. Don't worry, once they graduate, reality will be mind-numbingly consistent in teaching them that it doesn't care about their feelings, and most of them will learn the lesson and have good and successful lives.

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John K Byerlein Jr's avatar

you got me on the gender, I simply misread her contribution to the problem. However, I don't expect universities to teach civility as they prefer surrendering to the mob instead of confronting it with sound principles and severe consequences as you have set forth. With so much wokeism and good feeling progressivism infecting many workplaces, I doubt many will learn any lessons except be a loud, arrogant, abrasive whiner mob will always force people in authority to acquiesce to your immaturity. Hope you are right and I am wrong.

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