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

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Anonymous wrote:This whole thread is a disgusting smear campaign. It is classic cancel-culture.

And as is typical of cancel culture: it is based on lies. Ilya is in no way a racist! Just because you disagree with his politics does not give you the right to lie about him or make baseless claims of racism.

I am reporting this thread. It should be deleted.

I am starting to think the definition of cancel culture is being held accountable for your words and actions.

He definitely chose his words poorly. Based on the the evidence, what is the appropriate consequence? He apologized. He deleted the post. I believe he was chastised or his words were condemned by the school administration. He should do better at choosing his words in the future. Is that enough? Does his head need to roll? Given how quickly he apologized and deleted the post, I'd guess he won't do it again.

It's not up to me and I don't have an opinion either way - I wrote the posts with the viewpoint that this is extremely embarrassing to Georgetown and his Tweets are an example of extremely bad judgement. I stand by that opinion.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This whole thread is a disgusting smear campaign. It is classic cancel-culture.

And as is typical of cancel culture: it is based on lies. Ilya is in no way a racist! Just because you disagree with his politics does not give you the right to lie about him or make baseless claims of racism.

I am reporting this thread. It should be deleted.

I am starting to think the definition of cancel culture is being held accountable for your words and actions.

He definitely chose his words poorly. Based on the the evidence, what is the appropriate consequence? He apologized. He deleted the post. I believe he was chastised or his words were condemned by the school administration. He should do better at choosing his words in the future. Is that enough? Does his head need to roll? Given how quickly he apologized and deleted the post, I'd guess he won't do it again.

How would you feel if you were a Black woman student in Professor Shapiro’s law classes? Or if you were applying to clerkships or jobs with a recommendation from him?

Isn't the better approach to ask Black women law students what they think about his entire Twitter chain? And what if their viewpoints cover the gamut from outraged, to annoyed, to uncaring, to full agreement?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This whole thread is a disgusting smear campaign. It is classic cancel-culture.

And as is typical of cancel culture: it is based on lies. Ilya is in no way a racist! Just because you disagree with his politics does not give you the right to lie about him or make baseless claims of racism.

I am reporting this thread. It should be deleted.

I am starting to think the definition of cancel culture is being held accountable for your words and actions.

He definitely chose his words poorly. Based on the the evidence, what is the appropriate consequence? He apologized. He deleted the post. I believe he was chastised or his words were condemned by the school administration. He should do better at choosing his words in the future. Is that enough? Does his head need to roll? Given how quickly he apologized and deleted the post, I'd guess he won't do it again.

How would you feel if you were a Black woman student in Professor Shapiro’s law classes? Or if you were applying to clerkships or jobs with a recommendation from him?

Isn't the better approach to ask Black women law students what they think about his entire Twitter chain? And what if their viewpoints cover the gamut from outraged, to annoyed, to uncaring, to full agreement?

The entire Twitter chain that he deleted because it was racist?

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Anonymous wrote:I knew him in our 20s. He’s incredibly socially awkward. I don’t understand why he’s managed to get this much prominence and I am completely befuddled as to why Georgetown law hired him

I know him as well. You should be ashamed of yourself for trying to smear him this way.

You know he is brilliant. At least admit what you know.

And Georgetown recognizes talent. Plus, Ilya is no racist - if you know him then you know that too.

I’m going to go by his racist tweets as opposed to some random telling me he’s not racist. You can’t explain away “lesser black woman” as if there is some finite list of Supreme Court justices that could possibly include gasp a minority denial.

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Female not denial

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I knew him in our 20s. He’s incredibly socially awkward. I don’t understand why he’s managed to get this much prominence and I am completely befuddled as to why Georgetown law hired him

I know him as well. You should be ashamed of yourself for trying to smear him this way.

You know he is brilliant. At least admit what you know.

And Georgetown recognizes talent. Plus, Ilya is no racist - if you know him then you know that too.

Sounds hella racist to me. His words speak for themselves. What a vile individual. How do we get him canceled?

Can he be recalled from the school board?

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He lost the school board election

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I knew him in our 20s. He’s incredibly socially awkward. I don’t understand why he’s managed to get this much prominence and I am completely befuddled as to why Georgetown law hired him

I know him as well. You should be ashamed of yourself for trying to smear him this way.

You know he is brilliant. At least admit what you know.

And Georgetown recognizes talent. Plus, Ilya is no racist - if you know him then you know that too.

Sounds hella racist to me. His words speak for themselves. What a vile individual. How do we get him canceled?

Can he be recalled from the school board?

Yes lawyers and heads of law school are very precise with the use of language. There is no ambiguity in what he wrote.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I knew him in our 20s. He’s incredibly socially awkward. I don’t understand why he’s managed to get this much prominence and I am completely befuddled as to why Georgetown law hired him

I know him as well. You should be ashamed of yourself for trying to smear him this way.

You know he is brilliant. At least admit what you know.

And Georgetown recognizes talent. Plus, Ilya is no racist - if you know him then you know that too.

I’m going to go by his racist tweets as opposed to some random telling me he’s not racist. You can’t explain away “lesser black woman” as if there is some finite list of Supreme Court justices that could possibly include gasp a minority denial.

The only important thing that he has the platform and all the time and space in the world to explain what he meant by his “inartful” (his words) comments. He has not.

I would actually love to hear an explanation directly from him. Why does he refuse to explain his comments? They are his comments.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I knew him in our 20s. He’s incredibly socially awkward. I don’t understand why he’s managed to get this much prominence and I am completely befuddled as to why Georgetown law hired him

I know him as well. You should be ashamed of yourself for trying to smear him this way.

You know he is brilliant. At least admit what you know.

And Georgetown recognizes talent. Plus, Ilya is no racist - if you know him then you know that too.

I’m going to go by his racist tweets as opposed to some random telling me he’s not racist. You can’t explain away “lesser black woman” as if there is some finite list of Supreme Court justices that could possibly include gasp a minority denial.

The only important thing that he has the platform and all the time and space in the world to explain what he meant by his “inartful” (his words) comments. He has not.

I would actually love to hear an explanation directly from him. Why does he refuse to explain his comments? They are his comments.

Because he's not man enough to own them

[Anonymous]

Georgetown Law students call for Shapiro’s firing.

Conservatives will whine all day long, but it warms me to see that consequence culture is coming for Shapiro.

Say bad things, face consequences.

Consequence culture. It’s how America rolls.

[Anonymous]

Still waiting for Ilya to explain why he never claimed that Amy Coney Barrett was a 'lesser' nominee despite the fact there were others who were more 'qualified'.

Does Ilya believe that Amy has an asterix beside her name because she was pre-ordained for the nomination and there was no 'thorough search' before her nomination was announced.

I think Ilya needs to provide some clarifying comments.

Ilya's opinion on Sotomayor is out there for everyone to see - and we all know what he thinks about Biden's pending nominee.

If his concerns are good faith, and not based on racism, then surely he has expressed similar views in the past in similar circumstances. It will be easy for him to find them.

[Anonymous]

Jesus Christ this guy is a bigot.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Jesus Christ this guy is a bigot.

almost like he is a racist.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Jesus Christ this guy is a bigot.

almost like he is a racist.

Disgusting. But totally expected for Koch, Cato, Federalist. They are all vile POSs.