Posted on 07/15/2023 8:18:45 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Video of prominent Berkeley Law Dean Erwin Chemerinsky telling his class during a lecture he’d lie in a deposition now says he was totally joking, and his class knows it.
In late June, a short video of Chemerinsky was posted on social media in which he said to students:
“I’ll give you an example from our law school, but if ever I’m deposed, I’m going to deny I said this to you. When we do faculty hiring, we’re quite conscious that diversity is important to us, and we say diversity is important, it’s fine to say that.”
The video was posted by popular conservative scholar and activist Christopher Rufo under the wording: “Berkeley Law School dean Erwin Chemerinsky explains how he has secretly enacted a policy of racial discrimination in faculty hiring—which is illegal in California.”
The video quickly went viral and has been viewed more than 3 million times, prompting nationwide headlines and much criticism.
Chemerinsky, in a July 11 email to The College Fix, said he was not serious.
“My comment about being deposed was a light-hearted comment to my students about my expectation that it was a private conversation in the classroom. I, of course, would always tell the truth in a deposition and I am sure my students knew that,” he said.
Chemerinsky said the video excerpt is from a recording taken of a constitutional law class in the spring semester.
Part of the controversy surrounding the video centered on what Chemerinsky said regarding diversity hiring, as Proposition 209 eliminated affirmative action in California in 1996, and voters reiterated that position in 2020 when they rejected an attempt to repeal the law.
Three million views and counting 🔥 https://t.co/3uyfG9Oawo — Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) June 30, 2023
In the video, the dean tells his students he is “very careful when we have a faculty appointments committee meeting.”
“Anytime somebody says, ‘We should really prefer this candidate or this candidate because this person would add diversity.’ Don’t say that. You can think it, you can vote it, but our discussions are not privileged, so don’t ever articulate that that’s what you’re doing.”
Chemerinsky addressed those comments as well in his email to The Fix.
“It was a recording of a part of a class discussion,” he said via email.
“As per existing California law, the Berkeley Law School cannot and does not consider race in any of its hiring and admissions decisions. Those who were actually in the classroom and heard the entirety of my remarks—not one, isolated portion—fully understood that.”
He added that “Berkeley Law does not consider race in any of its hiring or admissions decisions.”
Guy’s a real paragon of virtue... we’re all so impressed./s
The first step is that UC Berkeley should have immediately suspended, retired, or fired him.
Hey Hugh Hewitt, this is one of your favorite clowns. Are you going to address this or just ignore it, as is your usual wont. Still mocking your cancer surviving producer? You deserve your current time slot, no one hears you which is what you deserve.
democrats lie. Then they lie about their lies.
I work in a tech support department and my boss is very liberal. There are about 20 employees, and about 12 of them are black. I believe there’s a total of three white straight males in this department. This manager was really pissed at the Supreme Court ruling regarding affirmative action hiring.
Chemerinsky has always been a leftist fool and will never change. That is why he is the Dean of Stupid.
They do, indeed.
millions of dollars just waiting to be collected by those who got shafted in the hiring process by the commies
because their father is the father of lies
John 8:44
King James Version
44 Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.
Yep, “it was a joke”.
As white leftist elitist, he is exempt from the rules he makes for us peasants.
It would never cross his mind to resign and let a minority take his place.
Guy’s gonna bruise a heel from all that backpedaling.
CC
Ah, the ole “Lying eyes” defense. Works well in liberal circles, because once they use it they feel they can go back to business as usual.
Berkeley is just another cesspool university where the communists rule.
This guy is nothing but an old, washed-up commie. He’s been around forever blabbing about the same old crap.
Disgusting lying liberal.
funny how liberals never care about conservative diversity.
ruffly half of the country is Republican, shouldn’t they strive to hire 50% conservatives so that their campus reflects America?
Marxist Chemerinsky was once a popular guest and friend of Hugh Hewitt’t radio program before he moved from LA to the U. of California. Chemerinsky is a Marxist, a congenital liar, and the perfect Berkeley representative.
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