There has been quite a spat going on in the academic legal community over the last month or so.
Two tenured law professors from two different schools, Pennsylvania and San Diego, co-authored an opinion piece explaining that a lot of our current social problems, kids without families, opioid abuse, and catastrophic urban violence, among others, might be less serious if the basic rules of personal responsibility prevalent in mid twentieth century America were still in place.
"That culture laid out the script we all were supposed to follow: Get
married before you have children and strive to stay married for their
sake. Get the education you need for gainful employment, work hard, and
avoid idleness. Go the extra mile for your employer or client. Be a
patriot, ready to serve the country. Be neighborly, civic-minded, and
charitable. Avoid coarse language in public. Be respectful of authority.
Eschew substance abuse and crime."
Pretty tame stuff. But then they crossed the rubicon.
"All cultures are not equal(italics are mine). Or at least they are not equal in preparing
people to be productive in an advanced economy. The culture of the
Plains Indians was designed for nomadic hunters, but is not suited to a
First World, 21st-century environment. Nor are the single-parent,
antisocial habits, prevalent among some working-class whites;
the anti-“acting white” rap culture of inner-city blacks; the
anti-assimilation ideas gaining ground among some Hispanic immigrants."
That all cultures are not equal is, for most of us, blindingly obvious. Do I really have to explain it? Again? No, I don't.
For any of you who may doubt this obvious statement of incontrovertible fact please look around you. Do you see all those millions and millions of legal and illegal immigrants? Do you have any idea why they might have chosen to leave the countries and cultures of their birth and flee to America, often at great personal peril? I know, I don't get it either. What could possibly explain why they wouldn't have chosen to stay in, in no particular order, Russia, China, The Philippines, Mexico, Honduras, Venezuela, El Salvador, India, Pakistan, etc?
Even as degraded as our culture has become, thanks to the never ending attempts by the left to denigrate anything and everything American, it is still the culture the whole non-western world is fleeing to.
The colleagues and students of the two rogue professors who offered such an heretical analysis of culture are aghast. Fire them, string them up. How dare they!
From Penn Law students;
"While we do not challenge Professor Wax’s right to express her views, we
question whether it is appropriate for her to continue to teach a
required first-year course. The Penn Law administration has long been
aware that her bigoted views inevitably seep into her words and actions
in the classroom and in private conversations with students. We call on
the administration to consider more deeply the toll that this takes on
students, particularly students of color and members of the LGBTQIA
community, and to consider whether it is in the best interests of the
school and its students for Professor Wax to continue to teach a
required first-year class. Exposure to a diversity of viewpoints is an
essential and valuable part of any educational experience, but no
student should have to be exposed to bigotry or abuse in the classroom (italics are mine)."
These idiots are attending a top tier law school and want to be lawyers?
From the dean of law at University of San Diego comes this;
"I want to thank the student groups, as well as the many individual
students, faculty and other members of the USD law school community who
have spoken or written to me to express their concerns about the article
written by USD School of Law Professor Larry Alexander, along with
University of Pennsylvania Professor Amy Wax, and their subsequent
interviews about the article.
...We must recognize that, for many students, racial discrimination and
cultural subordination (WHAT!) are not academic theories, they reflect the
students’ personal experiences.
... The views expressed by Professor Alexander were his personal views. I
personally do not agree with those views, nor do I believe that they are
representative of the views of our law school community."
Luckily for them and us both professors are tenured. If they were not they would probably both have been fired. For being polite, truthful and honest. That is no longer permitted, unless you have protection.
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Speaking of LGBT let's explore a real dilemma. I am working on another post about the tragedy of transgenderism and via Instapundit I came across a story headlined,
"Why Can't My Famous Gender Nonconforming Friends Get Laid". Interesting I thought, so I clicked through and read the piece. Profoundly stupid, extremely long and entirely unnecessary. Why unnecessary, you ask?
Because...
Now you know the rest of the story, as Paul Harvey famously intoned back when boys were boys and girls were girls.
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