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this doubles as a job interview

the Dean is wrong in asserting that the students will need to encompass and address disagreement later in their careers to serve their clients

the students protesting will take up work at places like SPLC where donations from Silicon Valley elites will pay them $1 mln/year to witch hunt Americans

the protest is just job prep

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The notion that there are these well-paid (as you put it) 'witch' hunters out there, just lying in wait to "hunt Americans", is firstly, specious (where are these riches?) and secondly shows exactly who you think is deserving of protection, and from whom.

You are telling on yourself.

If Salary.com [1] is to be believed (I have no idea), then a summer intern at SPLC makes $95k (presumably on an annualized basis). Lawyer salaries appear to be higher, but still in the low six-figures. Working here would be much less remunerative than working at a firm, but it would have the benefit of qualifying for student loan forgiveness (either through a program that Stanford runs, or through the federal govt's program).

https://www.salary.com/research/company/southern-poverty-law...

Are you saying the SPLC is an organization of these "witch hunters"?

Actually, it in fact is.

The previous commenter referred to SPLC, so I looked it up.

So they did. I probably should have asked them why they thought that instead of you, then.

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