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Jan 18 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
It's about time.
inquirer.com/news/amy-wax-p…
As usual blogger Brian Leiter (he's taking a break from attacking my Minnesota exploratory committee) is defending Amy Wax's right to say these racist things and keep her job.
Same guy who said law deans must be silent about racism and the killing of George Floyd. Go figure.
There are limits to "free speech":
A president who tells an angry mob to go to the Capitol while Congress is in session and "fight like hell" should be FIRED - PERMANENTLY!
A law professor who says Black students are inferior and there are "too many Asians" in should be FIRED!
And he persists....
Posting yet more nonsense arguing that this avowed racism is covered by "academic freedom."
I'd love to see that case tried before a Philadelphia jury.
What a fool.
I was born in Philly. People there aren't stupid. Try these "I have academic freedom to be a racist" arguments out in court and see how far you get.

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Jan 20
If this professor had denied Germany's WW2 crimes his article would have been retracted. But war crimes in Asia are different?
I and thousands of others asked journal editor Jonathan Klick (@pennlaw) to retract this article. All he did was ridicule us.
nytimes.com/2021/02/26/wor…
Sorry Professor Klick (@pennlaw). The objections that I and thousands of others, including two Nobel Prize winning economists, had to a "peer reviewed" article justifying wartime rape and sex slavery were not "incoherent."
Retract the article NOW!
leiterlawschool.typepad.com/leiter/2021/02…
Nazi Germany's war crimes and crimes against humanity included but were not limited to the Holocaust. Some, not all, of these crimes were prosecuted. Same for Japan. Accepting historical revisionism and calling it "scholarship" makes it more likely it will happen again.
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Jan 18
We need leaders who will fight crime and racism, leaders who will support the police but have zero tolerance for racism in policing.
Too many of these politicians don''t get it. Race baiting is as destructive as defunding the police.
duluthnewstribune.com/news/minnesota…
There may be no more racist police officers than there are racist professors (I've dealt with a few here), but in both cases racists need to get fired. There is no "freedom" to be a racist and keep a job. People who don't get that do not understand the rule of law.
As for the DFL, too many politicians knew about racial profiling in policing and did nothing and said nothing about it. One former City Council member, a lawyer, even admitted it on the record in Falcon Heights in 2016 (minutes, pg.6).
Vote them out!
falconheights.org/home/showdocum…
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Jan 17
There will always be those who put the self interest of an institution and the inflated egos of their colleagues within it over standing up for what it right.
That's true of many institutions but such behavior in the U.S. Senate is destroying democracy.
nytimes.com/2022/01/13/us/…
Given a choice between supporting inflated egos of "colleagues" in my line of work and supporting the rule of law and abolishing a vestige of Jim Crow, I would choose the latter.
@kyrstensinema and @Sen_JoeManchin choose the former.
American democracy now is on life support.
We see collaboration among "colleagues" to pursue selfish ends and ignore wrongdoing in the church, in universities, in business organizations, in police unions and elsewhere. But the U.S. Senate is supposed to REPRESENT US.
@kyrstensinema and @Sen_JoeManchin DO YOUR JOBS!
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Jan 17
"They’ll subpoena everything under the sun."

Ridiculous, but this is what I told Reuters would happen if the GOP gets control of the House or Senate.
reuters.com/world/us/anoth…
On ethics @POTUS is batting 95%. The White House should have nothing to do with Hunter Biden's art sales (the president has no obligation to control his son) and there are too many problems with the Biden name being used by @PennBiden, a private organization, but that's about it.
Problems with @PennBiden are: 1) Penn uses the Biden Center to raise money and Penn solicits large foreign donations, 2) the 2017-19 professor appointment Biden had with Penn is now over; 3) Penn's inability to fire a racist professor; and 4) Penn is elite, expensive and private.
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Jan 16
Not sure how this will go. Pleading collusion is one thing, proving it another. A very large percentage of students at "top" private universities come from well off families. But that's always been the case. They just pretend it's not.
nbcnews.com/think/opinion/… via @NBCNewsTHINK
Many students are on financial aid (really just a price discount). Economists call this "discriminatory pricing." At $80K total cost per year families need top 5% income or higher to pay full freight (more for more kids). Lots of financial aid goes to top 25% families.
State attorneys general should open their own investigation. Perhaps also DOJ and the Department of Education, although higher education lobbying and campaign contributions are likely to keep that from happening.
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Jan 15
Chauvin was recently indicted for this crime in 2017. Minneapolis officials knew about it then, but didn't fire him. He like a racist professor had job security equivalent to tenure. George Floyd would be alive today if city officials had done their jobs.
mprnews.org/story/2020/11/…
Some people feel (wrongly) that a racist professor has a right to a job because of tenure. Can we at least agree that racist or violent police officers don't have tenure? Minneapolis knew about Chauvin and still kept him on the streets until he killed George Floyd.
Rules for dismissal of a Minneapolis police officer are complex and make removal next to impossible. Who drafts the rules? The police union. What other group of employees gets to draft rules for this own dismissal with little pushback from the employer? Not many. This is corrupt.
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