Chua, who had spoken in support of Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination to the Supreme Court, was under investigation for allegedly violating her agreement not to socialize with students off campus. Less than a month later, two other students filed a lawsuit against the school claiming the same administrators had “blackball two students of color from job opportunities as retaliation for refusing to lie to support the University’s investigation” into Professor Amy Chua. When the student refused to send the apology the administrators had drafted for him - saying he preferred to talk to any offended students - the administrators sent out their own email to “condemn … in the strongest possible terms” the student’s use of “pejorative and racist language.” During the course of the conversation, the administrators can be heard telling the student that his affiliation with the Federalist Society - a conservative student group that hosts debates on campus - was “very triggering” to students and that the student would have been under additional scrutiny if he were “a white person.” (The student is of Native American descent.) They told him that if he did not agree to apologize, he may be prevented from becoming a licensed lawyer. Within hours, the student was called in to speak to the school’s diversity director and associate dean. The head of the Black Law Students Association said the term amounted to “cosplay/black face.” Others noted that the term was also in the name of one of the most popular progressive podcasts in the country - Chapo Trap House - hosted by three white guys, and hadn’t seemed to engender any backlash. Some law students believed the term was racially loaded and sent complaints to the administration describing the invitation as harassment and discrimination.
Administrators were recorded bullying a conservative student because of an email he sent inviting classmates over to his “trap house” for a party last October.
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In the last year, Yale Law School became the epicenter of the debate over on-campus free speech culture. The law student didn’t know any of this, but was offended by this display of non-ideological human interaction and accused me of “buddying up” with his enemy. When I hugged her at Yale this spring, she had just congratulated me on having a baby at the height of the pandemic. A few years later, we stood together at the White House when our former dean, Elena Kagan, was confirmed as an associate justice to the Supreme Court. She supported me when the faculty and administrators selected me as class day speaker at graduation. Though I was the president of the Harvard Federalist Society and she was a well-documented liberal, she had helped me innumerable times on campus. I’d known her since I was a first-year law student at Harvard more than 15 years ago.
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Then a conservative student launched into a tirade because he had seen me hug the associate dean of students earlier in the afternoon. Things went fine enough, and the room started to relax. The students slouching in their seats look bedraggled. The atmosphere in the gothic classroom was tense from the beginning.
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