"I'll literally fight you, bitch" — Yale Law School students, One-Think, and crushing free speech
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cluster ‘round the queen
Police were forced to escort guest speakers from Yale Law School's free speech debate after more than 100 students intimated a conservative panelist and caused a riot in the auditorium by yelling and blocking exits out of the hall.
The chaos broke out last week at the start of a panel featuring progressive Monica Miller from the American Humanist Association and conservative Christian Kristen Waggoner of the Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) nonprofit.
Both took the same side in a 2021 case involving legal remedies for First Amendment violations that was presented to the Supreme Court, but protesters were outraged by the ADF's successful Supreme Court defense of a Colorado baker who refused to make a gay wedding cake.
That saw Miller harangued ahead of the event by totalitarian students claiming her very presence at the event was 'harming the flourishing of queer lives,' with Waggoner and ADF supporters hit with threats at the meeting itself.
When law school professor Kate Stith began introducing Waggoner, the protestors stood up and displayed signs attacking the nonprofit Alliance Defending Freedom, for which Waggoner works.
Video of the incident, which was obtained by the Washington Free Beacon, shows the students screaming profanities at Waggoner, including one who threatened they would 'literally fight you, b***h.'
The protesters berated the speaker, chanting 'protect trans kids' and 'shame, shame' throughout the law school building after police officers escorted her and Miller out of the building.
A member of the Federalist Society, which hosted the panel, said they selected Waggoner and Miller to demonstrate how a conservative Christian and a liberal atheist could were able to find common ground on issues of free speech. [So naive, so old fashioned — ed]
However, the nearly 120 demonstrators still managed to cause havoc amid the event, violating the university's free speech policies which prohibit any protest that 'interferes with speakers' ability to be heard and of community members to listen.'
When Stith reminded the protesters of the policy, she was met with chants and raised middle fingers, to which she replied: 'Grow up.'
The students hit back, arguing that their disturbance was execution of 'free speech' and continued to scream at the panelists.
'I'm going to have to ask you to leave, or help you leave,' Stith responded.
But it wasn’t the thugs who left
Ultimately, police were called to the auditorium to safely escort the speakers out of the building.
Waggoner expressed horror for the students' behavior, alleging 'the future of the legal profession in America is in dire straits.'
'It was disturbing to witness law students whipped into a mindless frenzy. I did not feel it was safe to get out of the room without security,' she told the newspaper.
'Yale Law students are our future attorneys, judges, legislators, and corporate executives. We must change course and restore a culture of free speech and civil discourse at Yale and other law schools, or the future of the legal profession in America is in dire straits.'
Black Shirts, and proud of it
Those future judges and their equally-white, privileged peers speak:
Two days after the panel, 417 students - equating for more than 60 percent of the law school's student body - reportedly signed an open letter issuing support for 'peaceful student protesters.'
The letter also alleged the protesters had been 'imperiled by the presence of police'.
'The danger of police violence in this country is intensified against Black LGBTQ people, and particularly black trans people,' the letter, which was obtained by the newspaper, read.
'Police-related trauma includes, but is certainly not limited to, physical harm. Even with all of the privilege afforded to us at YLS, the decision to allow police officers in as a response to the protest put YLS's queer student body at risk of harm.'
The letter also slammed Stith for telling the demonstrators to 'grow up' and blasted the Federalist Society for hosting an event that 'profoundly undermined our community's values of equity and inclusivity.' *
Somewhere, a Yale Law grad must be cringing in shame; that someone is not on campus.
*New Speak
Here’s an old fashioned definition of “inclusivity”, from the Cambridge Dictionary
inclusivity
noun
the fact of including all types of people, things or ideas and treating them all fairly and equally
At Yale, inclusivity now means one thought to rule us all, one thought to bind us, and woe unto those who dare stand outside the hive.
