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ABA Legal Ed council suspends accreditation standard focused on diversity
The council of the ABA Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar has suspended enforcement of the accreditation standard originally titled “Diversity and Inclusion” until Aug. 31 in the wake of a Trump administration executive order mandating the dismantling of diversity, equity and inclusion efforts and demands by the U.S. Department of Education that academic institutions eliminate DEI polices or risk federal funding cuts. ...
“The committee’s view is that with the executive orders and the law being in flux, it would be an extreme hardship for law schools if our standards were to require them to do certain things that may cause them to take more litigation risks and potentially violate the law,” said Daniel Thies, chair-elect of the council and co-chair of its Strategic Review Committee. ...
The section’s council is recognized by the Department of Education as the sole accrediting body for U.S. law schools and is an independent arm of the ABA for that function. Most states require applicants of the state bar to be graduates of an ABA-accredited law school.
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Mar 4
🚨 I Am Living Proof That DEI Is Fake 🚨
It’s been almost a week since I was doxxed, and my life has changed permanently. A traditional Big Tech job is no longer an option—not because I lack the skills or experience, but because of what I’ve stood for. I didn’t do this for profit; I was already successful. And I don’t want to frame myself as a victim.
But here’s the reality: if I had aligned with the “right” ideology, my identity alone—deaf, female, and so on—would have been enough to open doors, maybe even land me a movie deal. Instead, my stance has made me a target to the point that I’ve had to completely uproot my life.
I’m incredibly grateful for the overwhelming support I’ve received on X and am leaning into it. But that support exists alongside an equally extreme level of hatred—hatred so intense that it has forced me to leave. That contrast should serve as a wake-up call. DEI, as it’s commonly practiced, isn’t about inclusion or equity. It’s about ideological conformity. And if proof is needed, I am it.
And the supreme irony is that the most vicious attacks by far have come because of my diversity credentials.
But also super grateful for X once again and I do feel like the most loved person in the nation despite everything.
I will never back down!
President Donald Trump has fired a top NATO admiral accused of spreading leftist ideology.
The Pentagon confirmed that Vice Adm. Shoshana Chatfield was let go over the weekend as Trump continues a purge of “woke” officials.
Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell said Chatfield was removed “due to a loss of confidence in her ability to lead.” ...
Trump has fired a number of top military officers who advocate “woke” ideas.
Those officials include former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. C.Q. Brown.
Brown, who is black, pushed to lower the number of white officers in the Air Force.
The psychological mechanism that lends equality its allure is Nietzsche’s ressentiment: the curdled envy felt by those who know they are botched products of nature, in the sense that they are inherently weaker, less beautiful, less talented, less healthy, less biologically fit than others, to such a degree that they will never, under their own power, rise to the top. Despite these disadvantages they desire power, they want to be on the top. Contemporary academic theorists all but throw this in your face with their position that all discourse, all language, all scholarship, all science, all philosophy, all religion, every word ever spoken or written, reduces to elaborate justifications for one person or group to have power over another, so what do you think they’re doing themselves? Using their words to gain power, obviously. They aren’t strong enough to take and keep power directly, so they must use trickery. They need to convince their natural superiors to believe in things that aren’t true, things whose inevitable consequence is to put them, and not someone else, in charge ... ideally in such a way that they can claim not to be in charge at all. They subjugate their victims by getting them to believe in false abstractions.
If this characterization of the desire for equality as emerging from envy strikes you as uncharitable, consider the emotional dynamics of the Yarvin-Allen debate. Yarvin certainly doesn’t believe in equality, yet while he could not resist trollishly toying with his overmatched opponent, he was gracious and polite throughout. Despite Allen being in every formal sense Yarvin’s professional superior, Yarvin did not show the slightest trace of envy towards her position. Conversely Allen, who claims to believe in the universal equality of man, clearly did not actually consider Yarvin her moral equal: she treated him contemptuously, as something unclean, something beneath her, like a perfumed noblewoman who’d stepped in something unpleasant. This seems oddly incongruous with her own professed ideals ... just as Yarvin’s courtesy seems, at first glance, out of step with his elitist embrace of hierarchy. Shouldn’t Yarvin have been the arrogant one? And yet there is no real paradox here, once you see that Allen’s ideals are born of envy, not of love, and that underneath the brittle facade of her professional persona with all its honours and accolades and privileges she hears the inner whisper of that troublesome imp, Imposter Syndrome, which by academics’ own reports haunts every hall of higher learning these days. She acts the noble, but knows herself the peasant, and so overreacts with exaggerated scorn when she encounters one she knows to be her natural better ... one whom she envies.
Allen’s entire demeanour indicates that she does not really believe in moral equality. She considers Yarvin to be morally inferior to her, precisely because he is her superior in more natural ways. She resents him for this, and hates him even more deeply for refusing to play her language game in which they both pretend that the two of them are equals. When she says she believes in equality, she is lying. She is lying because this is the lie that gives her power.
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