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Funny you say that...
> [f]or some members of our community, Judge Duncan, during his time as an attorney and judge, has ‘repeatedly and proudly threatened healthcare and basic rights for marginalized communities, including LGBTQ+ people, Native Americans, immigrants, prisoners, Black voters, and women, and his presence on campus represents a significant hit to their sense of belonging.
> Ahead of his appearance, they put up posters around the law school like this one, accusing him of being transphobic, homophobic, and racist [...]
> For about ten minutes, the judge tried to give his planned remarks, but the protestors simply yelled over him, with exclamations like [...] "You're not welcome here, we hate you!" [...] "Leave and never come back!" "We hate FedSoc students, f*k them, they don't belong here either!" and "We do not respect you and you have no right to speak here! This is our jurisdiction!"
Sooo...the "aggrieved" openly and explicitly express hate speech, intimidation tactics and demonstrate inability to coexist with anything they don't agree with. He's the one being jacketed as the hater.
> The protesters carried signs reading [...] "JUDGE DUNCAN CAN'T FIND THE CLIT"
> Judge Duncan moved on to the question-and-answer session, and the protestors quieted down enough to ask a few questions. The questions—and answers—were generally contemptuous. As the judge put it to me, while he’s usually happy to answer questions when he speaks at law schools, the questions he received at Stanford were not asked in good faith; in his words, they were of the “how many people have you killed” or “how many times did you beat your wife last week” variety.
> “I get the protesters, they are socialized into thinking the right approach to a federal judge you don’t agree with is to call him a f*ker and make jokes about his sex life. Awesome. I don’t care what they think about my sex life. But it took a surreal turn when the associate dean of DEI got up to speak…. She opens up her portfolio and lo and behold, there is a printed speech. It was a setup—and the fact that the administration was in on it to a certain degree makes me mad.”
Duncan hosting an AMA on 4chan would have been more civil. This is just embarrassing for Yale.
I'm very big on free speech, but Yale is by no means a town square for everyone to talk in. Now this event is just another matter to wage the "culture war" upon. All hail Pyrrhus!
Her remarks were in support of the rights of women to have female-only spaces, and against the linguistic erasure of women.
If that is considered "transphobic" then it just goes to show the misogyny inherent in the trans advocacy movement.
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