Professor Kingsfield is no longer in charge...
"You teach yourselves the law, but I train your minds. You come in here with a skull full of mush; you leave thinking like a lawyer."
Posted on 03/04/2019 7:56:24 PM PST by SeekAndFind
Brave of him to speak out...
....terrifying what has happened to our schools
Why would you pay top dollar to spend years at a place dedicated to NOT exposing you to new ways of thinking..?
You could be a garbageman for the name number of years, go similarly unchallenged by folks thinking differently from you but you would BE paid:
Much better.
“...NALSA (Native American Law Students Association) said ADF employees were not welcome on their “ancestral lands.”...”
They want t o play that way? Fine. It’s Not their land anymore. We conquered it. And conquered them as well.
Tough, ain’t it.
Few institutions in the world are as highly overrated as Yale and Harvard law schools. Quite likely the least talented faculty and students on either campus.
I hope he has a deep concealment CCW pistol that he carries to protect himself. I know it would be illegal under the law at Yale, but they seem to have done nothing to protect his rights so I feel he is relieved from obedience to their BS laws due to breach of contract. If someone bashed in my face, I would not turn the back of my head. If it was me I would have been carrying the whole time because I understand the evil that is among the left.
How it goes in Japan:
You totally bust your a$s in high-school and ONE DAY —college exam day— decides where you go to college, “good” school or “not good” school.
Once you get in you have almost NO work. The college experience involves a minimum of work but it’s almost totally to get your ticket punched and get an entree to a group of (company) people you otherwise would never meet.
For the really brilliant few, the university experience is an ENORMOUS let down.
More and more the US seems to want to go down this path.
The other yuge bad parallel I see cracking up between Japan and the US is the beginning of an American Media Cartel:
In Japan different media entities meet quite openly and decide WHO will “break a story”. Chilling, isn’t it..? And reporters are extreeeemely close to the government entities that they cover.
THAT is why almost all major REAL political scandals are broken by “scummy” rags (think sorta like the “Sun” with the Watermelon Alien baby stories). The scummy rags aren’t really IN the press cartels in the first place and so when they (rarely) get a scrap or two of real news they blurt it out, instead of “professionally” quashing it into silence.
Japan has a million good sides but I’ve elucidated two sides that aren’t so hot and which seem to be forming up in the USA.
White man’s school.
I admire his guts and willingness to speak out. During my own law school experience, even though Christians were not openly harassed, any conservative thought in an exam answer was severely penalized. To graduate with high law school grades is impossible as an honest conservative. The only way to do it is to be a fraud.
Professor Kingsfield is no longer in charge...
"You teach yourselves the law, but I train your minds. You come in here with a skull full of mush; you leave thinking like a lawyer."
Sue. Sue them for 100 million.
It was ridiculous even when I was attending another unnamed top law school 40 years ago. They already had all the alphabet groups he mentioned.
So, some of us formed a secret law student group we called “MLSA,” the “Mongrel Law Students Association,” made up of hapa (mixed students) who didn’t fit in any other groups. Several of us were mixed Asian/Caucasian, another was Caucasian-looking Cherokee (yes a real one, he was a registered tribal member and grew up on tribal lands in Oklahoma), and several were Latino students who “chose to identify” as Caucasian (truthfully, they hadn’t thought up that political correctness rationale yet, but our members just didn’t like the ridiculousness of claiming a special status just because your parents were of Mexican heritage).
Our main rowdy activities were having a beer or two while watching Jacques Cousteau, The Prisoner or other programs which were then on TV on Friday nights. The rest of the time we were too busy studying.
I had the real Kingsfield for Property.
Jesus what a whiner. Some people were snarky to him and didn’t invite him to their parties and now he’s Saint Polycarp? I was a conservative in law school and the people who were nasty are powerless - it was never the Obama staffer types who wanted to get into politics but the ppl who would take $50k a year legal aid jobs. The federalist society protects their own and there are more spots for conservative lawyers in firms and organizations than there are highly qualified conservative lawyers.
I wouldn’t have guessed that. Thanks.
All about access.
The top schools provide an opportunity to access the upper reaches that lower schools - who still provide the degree - cannot provide.
Don’t ignore the import of this. Its fun to pretend these leftist snowflakes are just wasting their money - but that’s not the case at all
Yale and similar law schools are still the elite of American society. The people coming from these schools will be in real positions of power in 15 or 20 years. What happens to America when their extreme leftist, identity politics completely takes over American governing institutions?
Do you think the deep state is bad now? That government is present biased against conservatives or actively hostile to conservative ideas and christianity?
Just wait another decade or two
My eldest daughter and one of her close friends from high school started law school at the same time. My daughter’s friend attended Harvard Law; my daughter attended a very good law school of lesser renown in the Southeast. Being a lawyer myself, I had interesting conversations with both of them after their first year of law school. There was no question in my mind as to which school had provided the better education in the law. It was not Harvard.
Every liberal has read To Kill a Mockingbird and/or The Crucible.
They worship this book and play and yet they don't grasp the messages about jumping to conclusions, mob rule, and lynching innocent people.
Now they've embraced McCarthyism and guilt by association.
“What happens to America when their extreme leftist, identity politics completely takes over American governing institutions?”
Seriously? It’s already a done deal. It’s not about preventing this from happening, it’s about taking it back. The lunatics are in charge now. The crap has already hit the fan.
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