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Breaking: Ilya Shapiro Resigns from Georgetown
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Posted By: Dreadnought, 6/6/2022 12:02:11 PM

As I noted on Thursday, Ilya Shapiro’s reinstatement at Georgetown’s law school may have been a victory for outside pressure against the forces of cancel culture, but it also sent an unambiguous signal that Georgetown would have caved to the mob and fired Shapiro if it was at liberty to do so, and would lie in wait for the first instant that a student found it politically useful to claim offense at Shapiro in order to make that happen once his defenders had let down their vigilance. That makes an obvious mockery of the university’s supposed commitment to the sort of robust free speech we associate with academic freedom

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Reply 1 - Posted by: raspberry 6/6/2022 12:28:23 PM (No. 1177771)
I would expect Georgetown Law School to act more judicially here. They could be more skillful in applying their double standards.
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Reply 2 - Posted by: lakerman1 6/6/2022 1:02:05 PM (No. 1177827)
Back in the 1980-s, Georgetown Law was at the top of the heap, and was the first choice for many of my pre-law students. George Washington was second, and Catholic was third. The integrity possessed by Georgetown seems to have withered away, beginning with the Dollar Bill Clinton admin9istration, and has never recovered. Going from flag ship to sunken ship is a shame.
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Reply 3 - Posted by: kidsmom 6/7/2022 8:37:56 AM (No. 1178553)
Good for you, Shapiro. Go find a place where you stand a chance of forming hearts and minds without interference from the Gestapo administration. College is supposed to be a bastion of the free flow of thoughts and ideas. Sigh~~not anymore....
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