Well that's fair, I guess
Posted: Tue May 07, 2024 5:56 pm
I can't imagine the reaction if this situation were reversed.
Universities, news media, google, amazon et al, have not hired conservatives and have openly discriminated against them for years.mrkelley23 wrote: ↑Tue May 07, 2024 5:56 pmI can't imagine the reaction if this situation were reversed.
Nope. I mean if a bunch of federal judges came out and said we are definitely not going to hire anyone from, say, Liberty University. Sight unseen. No looking for quality or anything else. The institution you attend is an automatic disqualifier. And two of these judges are now on their third example of this kind of intimidation. What you're describing is not remotely similar. It's called false equivalence, and you would be wise to start recognizing it.flockofseagulls104 wrote: ↑Tue May 07, 2024 6:47 pmUniversities, news media, google, amazon et al, have not hired conservatives and have openly discriminated against them for years.mrkelley23 wrote: ↑Tue May 07, 2024 5:56 pmI can't imagine the reaction if this situation were reversed.
Is that what you mean?
No, I just mean if a group of (ostensibly liberal) judges came out and said they would not hire any clerks from, say, Brigham Young Law School.
Okay. Just in general. Across the board. That's what you were pointing out.mrkelley23 wrote: ↑Tue May 07, 2024 7:08 pmNo, I just mean if a group of (ostensibly liberal) judges came out and said they would not hire any clerks from, say, Brigham Young Law School.
Thank you for asking for clarification. I'm sorry I wasn't clearer.
They don't say it. They wouldn't dare say it. They just do it.mrkelley23 wrote: ↑Tue May 07, 2024 7:06 pmNope. I mean if a bunch of federal judges came out and said we are definitely not going to hire anyone from, say, Liberty University. Sight unseen. No looking for quality or anything else. The institution you attend is an automatic disqualifier. And two of these judges are now on their third example of this kind of intimidation. What you're describing is not remotely similar. It's called false equivalence, and you would be wise to start recognizing it.flockofseagulls104 wrote: ↑Tue May 07, 2024 6:47 pmUniversities, news media, google, amazon et al, have not hired conservatives and have openly discriminated against them for years.mrkelley23 wrote: ↑Tue May 07, 2024 5:56 pmI can't imagine the reaction if this situation were reversed.
Is that what you mean?
Strangely, I don't have a problem with judges deciding, on their own and in private, that they don't want clerks who are graduates of certain institutions. They should have the right to hire who they want. Where I draw the ethical line is this public letter, which threatens the institution rather than the graduates. It's kind of a reverse protection racket.flockofseagulls104 wrote: ↑Tue May 07, 2024 10:10 pmThey don't say it. They wouldn't dare say it. They just do it.mrkelley23 wrote: ↑Tue May 07, 2024 7:06 pmNope. I mean if a bunch of federal judges came out and said we are definitely not going to hire anyone from, say, Liberty University. Sight unseen. No looking for quality or anything else. The institution you attend is an automatic disqualifier. And two of these judges are now on their third example of this kind of intimidation. What you're describing is not remotely similar. It's called false equivalence, and you would be wise to start recognizing it.flockofseagulls104 wrote: ↑Tue May 07, 2024 6:47 pm
Universities, news media, google, amazon et al, have not hired conservatives and have openly discriminated against them for years.
Is that what you mean?
Thank you for correcting me. It would be much more relevant and credible to me if you corrected the usual subjects on this bored when they engage in that sort of hyperbole on purpose. Which is their usual form of response. Especially the doc, who lives in some sort of fantasy land.
What strikes me as funny in this entire conversation is that law schools tend to be insular and not a part of the main campus conversation at many campuses. I know when I was a law student, the law school at the University of Florida was in its own building some distance from the main campus. My only interactions with activities on the main campus were class registrations and payment of fees each quarter, football games, and an occasional movie night at the Rathskeller. We kept to ourselves and didn't get involved with main campus activities. Although the Vietnam War had pretty much ended by the time I got to law school, Watergate and its accompanying revelations were a hot topic on the main campus. I know Emory Law School is similar. Their building is some distance from the main Emory campus. So, although some departments are hotbeds of student activism, law schools are not one of them.mrkelley23 wrote: ↑Wed May 08, 2024 5:47 amStrangely, I don't have a problem with judges deciding, on their own and in private, that they don't want clerks who are graduates of certain institutions.
I do. Judges are public employees hiring clerks with public money. Applying guilt by association in this manner, even privately, seems highly problematic.mrkelley23 wrote: ↑Wed May 08, 2024 5:47 amStrangely, I don't have a problem with judges deciding, on their own and in private, that they don't want clerks who are graduates of certain institutions.flockofseagulls104 wrote: ↑Tue May 07, 2024 10:10 pmThey don't say it. They wouldn't dare say it. They just do it.mrkelley23 wrote: ↑Tue May 07, 2024 7:06 pmNope. I mean if a bunch of federal judges came out and said we are definitely not going to hire anyone from, say, Liberty University. Sight unseen. No looking for quality or anything else. The institution you attend is an automatic disqualifier. And two of these judges are now on their third example of this kind of intimidation. What you're describing is not remotely similar. It's called false equivalence, and you would be wise to start recognizing it.
Thank you for correcting me. It would be much more relevant and credible to me if you corrected the usual subjects on this bored when they engage in that sort of hyperbole on purpose. Which is their usual form of response. Especially the doc, who lives in some sort of fantasy land.