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What a weird description of what is on video. Is this how you perceived what happened?

We truly perceive reality in very different ways.

multiple things happened including these

There’s a video. No need for anyone to retcon.

> retcon

Just learned something new

> shouting down students who raised questions with civility

Sounds awful. Is there video?

Here's one video: https://twitter.com/chrisgeidner/status/1634791941350064128?...

This is going to be a super unpopular take so feel free to let me have it (I won't hold it against you):

I don't know why anyone would expect a bunch of Stanford students to be bowled over by some appointed midwit judge.

Your typical Stanford student, assuming they're not a legacy, is extremely hard-working and bright. Top of their class. Whereas your typical judge is a mediocre lawyer who happened to be a known commodity among oily politicians. The idea that we sneer at our best college students but celebrate mediocre jurists isn't reflective of a meritocratic society.

There's something... interesting about ostensible egalitarians (equitytarians?) saying that someone is worthy of less respect because they went to LSU instead of an elite school like Stanford.

How they acted toward the guest would be inappropriate even if he were an ex-homeless high school dropout. If he's a midwit, embarrass him by asking pointed questions, not by heckling and hurling insults.

Well the point of contention isn't the stances being discussed, but rather that a group of ostensibly top-law intellectuals behaving like a mob of room-temp-iq occupy wallst idiots. All feelz, devoid of thought.

I don't expect the students to be "bowled over" by a judge. I expect them not to heckle him.

You seem to be saying the treatment is justified because the students are smarter than the judge.

He was invited to speak by Stanford students, so at least a minority of hard-working and bright students wanted to hear what he had to say.

In that video he calmly replies "You're an appalling idiot" to the person calling him* "disgusting". I was more interested in the alleged shouting at civil questions.

*Correction: The student is calling what he's doing disgusting, not the man himself.

> Your typical Stanford student, assuming they're not a legacy, is extremely hard-working and bright. Top of their class. Whereas your typical judge is a mediocre lawyer who happened to be a known commodity among oily politicians.

The typical judge, perhaps, but Duncan [0] graduated summa cum laude [1] from Louisiana State University, which seems to be well regarded, and earned a Master of Laws from Columbia Law School, which is "widely regarded as one of the most prestigious law schools in the world and has always ranked in the top five schools in the United States" [2].

But more pertinent is engineer_22's comment [3] that he was invited to speak by some of those students you think so highly of.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyle_Duncan_(judge)

[1] meaning "with highest praise", typically awarded to graduates in the top 1%, 2%, or 5% of their class - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latin_honors#Distinctions

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbia_Law_School

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35121972

You can clearly hear the person saying "its disgusting". They weren't calling him disgusting.

To the elite class of this country, Louisiana State University is nothing compared to Harvard/Yale/Stanford Law schools. Graduates of the latter schools, according to many, descend from high heavens, whereas people from state schools are those who can't make it to HYS.

That is the epitome of an elitist comment. Do you even know anything about LSU?

There are two aspects to my comment: (a) whether one agrees with my comment or not (b) whether one understands what's going on in the world. My comment is about (b): the way students and their parents crave for HYP/S undergrad admissions; HYS law schools; Harvard/Stanford b schools; tells us that even those who sneer at elites want their kids to be part of the same elite or at least become servants of that elite.

By the way, I didn't go to any elite college anywhere in the world. However, I want to understand people.

Then you’re agreeing that it’s an elitist point of view.

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