[HN Gopher] What Is Going on at Yale Law School? ___________________________________________________________________ What Is Going on at Yale Law School? Author : macbookaries Score : 22 points Date : 2021-06-20 21:34 UTC (1 hours ago) (HTM) web link (www.newyorker.com) (TXT) w3m dump (www.newyorker.com) | underseacables wrote: | https://outline.com/Tq2DWB | ur-whale wrote: | https://archive.md/Yz9L5 | matthewmcg wrote: | Law school is one of the least useful graduate schools---and I | wrote this as a practicing lawyer more than 10 years out. I was | hoping this article might be talking about some kind of bold | reform. Nope---just more gossip about overpaid professors. | gaws wrote: | > Law school is one of the least useful graduate schools | | How? I've always assumed it's a non-negotiable requirement for | anyone considering a profession in law. | tpmx wrote: | I got a mild headache just reading the article. This all seems so | stupid. So much drama for the sake of drama. I feel like everyone | involved should grow up. | | How about just focusing on teaching? Also, the concept of TV- | famous professors seems plain weird. | throwawaysea wrote: | From my perspective as someone who has become familiar with Amy | Chua only recently, what is going on is your typical college | campus cancel culture story. Amy Chua authored Battle Hymn of the | Tiger Mother and is a political moderate wary of tribalism, and | is now the target of ideologically progressive students, | administrators, activists, and news media. The push against her | is due to her affiliation with Brett Kavanaugh (speaking in | support of him and sending law students to clerk for him), her | support for stern/focused parenting that is (relatively more) | common among Asian parents, and because she is not going along | with the progressive monoculture on college campuses. | | While those are the true motivations in my opinion, the attacks | against her are built around a different set of issues, which are | allegations against her husband of improper behavior that remain | unproven (and never brought to a court of law to my knowledge), | and are being used as a guilt by association to attack Chua. | There are further allegations that Chua herself did the same to a | lesser extent by hosting occasional dinner parties with students | invited (which frankly seems normal among Professor-grad student | relations), and those too remain unproven. It's all one big ball | of character assassination attempts with nothing concrete beyond | repeated attention drawn to it by news articles like this. | | For those not familiar with Chua, I recommend listening to her | yourself on one of the many podcasts she's appeared on. For | example she's been on podcasts from Vox, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Megyn | Kelly, Coleman Hughes, and a Chris Hayes. I found her to be | intelligent, articulate, and insightful. She represents a diverse | voice that colleges desperately need today and I hope Yale | doesn't make the mistake of diminishing her role in the community | based solely on flimsily allegations and social pressures. ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2021-06-20 23:00 UTC)