Turns out the Falls Church school board guy from the Koch thinktank, Ilya Shapiro, really is toxic

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Anonymous wrote:The whole saga puts Georgetown Law in a bad light. An actual top law school would never have extended him an offer in the first place and would certainly have figured out a reasonable way to get rid of him while still making donors happy. This just confirms that Georgetown Law is not a top law school, which I think we all already knew.

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Anonymous wrote:Ilya was straight up canceled.

Nope. “Canceled” has lost all meaning with you people.

I agree they shouldn’t have hired him but they clearly thought having a “center” with some right wingers would help them. Having hired him there was no way they could get rid of him without looking like a second rate law school. But Georgetown still is clearly a top tier law school and it’s sort of silly to say otherwise.

Actually, elite institutions are quite savvy about getting rid of people quietly. They still could have that center (I understand it’s Koch-funded). It just didn’t need to be with this specific person. It truly looks like donors are making their employment decisions and that’s not elite. You expect it from George Mason. I would not have expected it from Georgetown but they now look juts as desperate as George Mason and should probably be ranked equivalent.

Maybe in the past or in other circumstances but there was no chance here.

By your standard neither Princeton nor MIT is elite since they weren’t able to get rid of Sabatini and Katz quietly. 🙄

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JFC Shapiro was so mad he didn’t get fired that he… quit?

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All they care about is stoking their grievances.

But at least PP who thinks they should have engineered a way for him to leave will be happy.

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I didn't know who this guy is until reading his op-ed in the WSJ today, and his tweet was stupid. That said, the worst part about this whole story is the black eye on Georgetown for not strongly advocating for free speech for their faculty. If this had happened at a state school like UMD, it would have riled up some students and faculty but the idea of taking any kind of administrative action would have immediately been quashed as the government cannot infringe upon free speech. Most liberal schools have signed onto the Chicago statement on freedom of speech. It is scary when institutions charged with generating knowledge and ideas "investigate" people for politically incorrect statements

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The guy sounds like a wealthy version of most of my high school class back in Pennsylvania. Reminds that I'm glad that I never moved back after school. Also glad that I never chose the path into academia.

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Anonymous wrote:I didn't know who this guy is until reading his op-ed in the WSJ today, and his tweet was stupid. That said, the worst part about this whole story is the black eye on Georgetown for not strongly advocating for free speech for their faculty. If this had happened at a state school like UMD, it would have riled up some students and faculty but the idea of taking any kind of administrative action would have immediately been quashed as the government cannot infringe upon free speech. Most liberal schools have signed onto the Chicago statement on freedom of speech. It is scary when institutions charged with generating knowledge and ideas "investigate" people for politically incorrect statements

This. We are truly in Mao's cultural revolution.

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Anonymous wrote:Has Ilya explained yet why he praised ACB's nomination rather than dismissing her as a lesser woman candidate?

Nope. So transparent.

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Ilya is 100% a racist. This is obvious to anyone who knows him.

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Anonymous wrote:I didn't know who this guy is until reading his op-ed in the WSJ today, and his tweet was stupid. That said, the worst part about this whole story is the black eye on Georgetown for not strongly advocating for free speech for their faculty. If this had happened at a state school like UMD, it would have riled up some students and faculty but the idea of taking any kind of administrative action would have immediately been quashed as the government cannot infringe upon free speech. Most liberal schools have signed onto the Chicago statement on freedom of speech. It is scary when institutions charged with generating knowledge and ideas "investigate" people for politically incorrect statements

This. We are truly in Mao's cultural revolution.

What a ridiculous statement about a guy who nothing happened to. Tell me you are historically ignorant without telling me….

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Anonymous wrote:All they care about is stoking their grievances.

But at least PP who thinks they should have engineered a way for him to leave will be happy.

PP here and actually yes, I’m quite impressed with the outcome and GULC has definitely redeemed themselves as an elite institution. They masterfully dealt with this troll and engineered the best possible outcome for the school.

So yeah, Georgetown Law is elite again because this is how elite institutions get it done.

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Anonymous wrote:I didn't know who this guy is until reading his op-ed in the WSJ today, and his tweet was stupid. That said, the worst part about this whole story is the black eye on Georgetown for not strongly advocating for free speech for their faculty. If this had happened at a state school like UMD, it would have riled up some students and faculty but the idea of taking any kind of administrative action would have immediately been quashed as the government cannot infringe upon free speech. Most liberal schools have signed onto the Chicago statement on freedom of speech. It is scary when institutions charged with generating knowledge and ideas "investigate" people for politically incorrect statements

This. We are truly in Mao's cultural revolution.

“This! We should be able to use our platform to share our racist opinions free of consequences! Everyone knows the Biden Administration chose a “lesser candidate” just because she’s black! What’s that you say? She (KBJ) went to Harvard Law/an Ivy League law school (unlike ACB), was a Supreme Court clerk (unlike Alito and Sotomayer), and federal appeals judge (unlike Kagan). No, I didn’t object to ACB even though KBJ has more judicial experience. Why? Umm. Just because..”

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Isn't hate speech excluded from the freedom of speech?

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Anonymous wrote:Isn't hate speech excluded from the freedom of speech?

First, it wasn't hate speech. Second, hate speech is protected speech. What country do you live in?!

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Total wuss. Comes across looking weak even though his dream is to be a poster boy for... Something.