..so i had to Google Franke. Her appearance is the perfect meme to fit you rather strongly worded description. Reminded me of the faculty I was surrounded by while I wasted my time at Huxley College.....oops, they've dropped the name Huxley because, white, English biologist from the 1800's.. Me there c.1978
The description wasn't really intended to be about her appearance, but her behavior. I have never come across a more snarlingly hostile character, and that quality even leaps off the pages of her legal writing.
Georgetown Law's professor Victoria Nourse has congratulated President Biden on amending the Constitution: "President Biden's carefully considered decision to recognize the Equal Rights Amendment's status as the 28th Amendment to the Constitution brings the White House in line with the legal academy and profession." Yet, the Equal Rights Amendment failed ratification many years ago. Why pretend otherwise? This isn't gaslighting, it's ghost dancing.
My best guess is that Biden had zero to do with it, and the petulant theater kids pulling his strings thought that the silly stunt would make the ERA more salient by enabling Democrats to campaign to young women as the ERA being something that had been stolen away by Republicans rather than something that had long ago failed to pass in the first place. As for Georgetown Law, their willingness to go along with the stunt demonstrates the institution's fundamental lack of integrity -- intellectual, moral, or otherwise. It was auspicious timing that they immolated their last shred of dignity on the very day that my piece came out. Treanor and probably all of their senior leadership need to go, certainly if I were an alum I'd feel that they've torpedoed the value of my investment and would not feel comfortable wearing any Georgetown apparel at this point.
I've said it for 40 years. They let out the mental institutions in the late sixties and early '70s and they had to put these people someplace. So instead, they paid them to pretend to write and teach in the University system. This way there's no stigma of mental illness, but rather of prestige and they enjoy themselves more. They then try to lobotomize the rest of the country. That is the Leftist's topsy-turvy way of ironically coming to grips with the reality that he despises.
That's funny and just crazy enough to have some truth in it! I tend to think that a lot of the extremism comes down to a combination of human nature being prone to grandiose crusades (as I wrote about in my recent piece on Eric Hoffer) and the structural logic of bureaucracies. Like viruses, bureaucracies are geared to blind expansion at any cost, even as it eventually kills the host. It was perhaps inevitable that metastasizing bureaucracies would ally with each other and produce a kind of interlocking gleichschaltung ideology rationalizing and legitimizing the blob. Nobody is really in charge of the technocracy -- it's just a vast inhuman beast driven by insatiable appetites.
Brexit, Trump and next, California, are responses to the rot, incompetence and dishonesty at the root of what you describe. I don’t know if you read Howlin, but Ilya does and I'll provide you with a subscription on me if you don't. I dislike most attorneys simply because I've worked with too many of them. But I'll hang with you guys any day.
I've read a bunch of Howlin' in the past, and just subscribed! The rot is so profound that it would take years and probably decades of backlash to even begin to fill that hole.
I've always felt a kinship with northern England because I love so many bands from the region and there are a lot of cultural similarities with my hometown in America's rust belt. My heart breaks for what's happened to your country -- Starmer is the British Justin Trudeau.
Sorry hit the wrong button. As I was saying I grew up in the Wirral directly across the Mersey river from Speke where Paul McCartney grew up. I still remember hearing the Beatles first single, Love Me Do, on the radio when I was 9 years old. Since that time the north of England has continued to produce great bands and musicians.
That makes you practically a celebrity in my book, such is my regard for the Stone Roses, The Verve, etc. I've been mulling taking a trip to England and people I talk to are always surprised that I'm not half as interested in seeing (what's left of) London as heading up to Manchester and Wigan.
Franke's career basically consisted of translating Judith Butler into legalese.
Some of her gems:
"Defining sex in biological/anatomical terms represents a serious error"
"equality jurisprudence must abandon its reliance upon a biological definition of... sex discrimination & adopt a more behavioral/performative conception of sex"
"sexual equality jurisprudence should include a commitment to a fundamental right to determine one’s gender independent of one’s biological sex".
Crenshaw, btw, somehow neglected to disclose in one of her original, now majorly popular articles that courts had already acknowledged "intersectional" discrimination claims prior to the introduction of her supposedly revolutionary theory, contrary to what she claimed there.
Whatever I think of Crenshaw's views, she's an impressive and charismatic person. I can see why foundations throw money at her and why she's on the faculty of not one but two well-known law schools. Franke's professional success and longevity I find far more difficult to explain.
Good job. But want to add that law schools have always been a rat hole of fakery, pretension and stupidity. Was just the same for me back in the late 1970's, though the specific coloration was different. This reality is only getting public notice now because of current circumstances, but the people have always been the same.
I'll illustrate your point with a quotation from Shapiro's resignation letter: "In 2018, Georgetown protected this tweet from Professor Carol Christine Fair during Justice Kavanaugh’s confirmation process: “Look at this chorus of entitled white men justifying a serial rapist’s arrogated entitlement. All of them deserve miserable deaths while feminists laugh as they take their last gasps. Bonus: we castrate their corpses and feed them to swine? Yes.”
At Columbia (and not just at the Law School) I was surrounded by that sort of odious rhetoric every single day, without exception. It's just the carcinogenic water you have to swim in. Thank heavens the public is starting to realize what shallow hateful frauds broad swathes of elite higher education consist of.
Agreed that the ideological trip is now much more intense. But the utter moral vacancy and pandering to student approval are the same. Guess you had to have been there.
Before I got hired by Columbia I took the LSAT and had resigned myself that I'd probably have to go to law school. The job offer came in literally the day before I was going to submit all my applications. And then a couple of years later I was working for Columbia Law School, which I imagine I probably would have ended up attending had I not gotten my last minute reprieve. Law school is such a toxic environment that you really have to live it to understand it, it was some tough sledding but in hindsight I am grateful for the experience and that I got paid to endure it instead of going hundreds of thousands of dollars into debt.
..so i had to Google Franke. Her appearance is the perfect meme to fit you rather strongly worded description. Reminded me of the faculty I was surrounded by while I wasted my time at Huxley College.....oops, they've dropped the name Huxley because, white, English biologist from the 1800's.. Me there c.1978
The description wasn't really intended to be about her appearance, but her behavior. I have never come across a more snarlingly hostile character, and that quality even leaps off the pages of her legal writing.
Georgetown Law's professor Victoria Nourse has congratulated President Biden on amending the Constitution: "President Biden's carefully considered decision to recognize the Equal Rights Amendment's status as the 28th Amendment to the Constitution brings the White House in line with the legal academy and profession." Yet, the Equal Rights Amendment failed ratification many years ago. Why pretend otherwise? This isn't gaslighting, it's ghost dancing.
My best guess is that Biden had zero to do with it, and the petulant theater kids pulling his strings thought that the silly stunt would make the ERA more salient by enabling Democrats to campaign to young women as the ERA being something that had been stolen away by Republicans rather than something that had long ago failed to pass in the first place. As for Georgetown Law, their willingness to go along with the stunt demonstrates the institution's fundamental lack of integrity -- intellectual, moral, or otherwise. It was auspicious timing that they immolated their last shred of dignity on the very day that my piece came out. Treanor and probably all of their senior leadership need to go, certainly if I were an alum I'd feel that they've torpedoed the value of my investment and would not feel comfortable wearing any Georgetown apparel at this point.
I've said it for 40 years. They let out the mental institutions in the late sixties and early '70s and they had to put these people someplace. So instead, they paid them to pretend to write and teach in the University system. This way there's no stigma of mental illness, but rather of prestige and they enjoy themselves more. They then try to lobotomize the rest of the country. That is the Leftist's topsy-turvy way of ironically coming to grips with the reality that he despises.
That's funny and just crazy enough to have some truth in it! I tend to think that a lot of the extremism comes down to a combination of human nature being prone to grandiose crusades (as I wrote about in my recent piece on Eric Hoffer) and the structural logic of bureaucracies. Like viruses, bureaucracies are geared to blind expansion at any cost, even as it eventually kills the host. It was perhaps inevitable that metastasizing bureaucracies would ally with each other and produce a kind of interlocking gleichschaltung ideology rationalizing and legitimizing the blob. Nobody is really in charge of the technocracy -- it's just a vast inhuman beast driven by insatiable appetites.
Brexit, Trump and next, California, are responses to the rot, incompetence and dishonesty at the root of what you describe. I don’t know if you read Howlin, but Ilya does and I'll provide you with a subscription on me if you don't. I dislike most attorneys simply because I've worked with too many of them. But I'll hang with you guys any day.
I've read a bunch of Howlin' in the past, and just subscribed! The rot is so profound that it would take years and probably decades of backlash to even begin to fill that hole.
You will find the exact same conditions in my homeland, England.
I've always felt a kinship with northern England because I love so many bands from the region and there are a lot of cultural similarities with my hometown in America's rust belt. My heart breaks for what's happened to your country -- Starmer is the British Justin Trudeau.
I grew up in the Wirral peninsula directly across the Merseyside
Sorry hit the wrong button. As I was saying I grew up in the Wirral directly across the Mersey river from Speke where Paul McCartney grew up. I still remember hearing the Beatles first single, Love Me Do, on the radio when I was 9 years old. Since that time the north of England has continued to produce great bands and musicians.
That makes you practically a celebrity in my book, such is my regard for the Stone Roses, The Verve, etc. I've been mulling taking a trip to England and people I talk to are always surprised that I'm not half as interested in seeing (what's left of) London as heading up to Manchester and Wigan.
Been something of a renaissance in Liverpool over the last few years so well worth a visit. Shame the Hacienda in Manchester is long gone.
Shaun Ryder's hilarious autobiography recounts all sorts of crazy antics that went down at the Hacienda in those years.
Franke's career basically consisted of translating Judith Butler into legalese.
Some of her gems:
"Defining sex in biological/anatomical terms represents a serious error"
"equality jurisprudence must abandon its reliance upon a biological definition of... sex discrimination & adopt a more behavioral/performative conception of sex"
"sexual equality jurisprudence should include a commitment to a fundamental right to determine one’s gender independent of one’s biological sex".
Crenshaw, btw, somehow neglected to disclose in one of her original, now majorly popular articles that courts had already acknowledged "intersectional" discrimination claims prior to the introduction of her supposedly revolutionary theory, contrary to what she claimed there.
Whatever I think of Crenshaw's views, she's an impressive and charismatic person. I can see why foundations throw money at her and why she's on the faculty of not one but two well-known law schools. Franke's professional success and longevity I find far more difficult to explain.
Good job. But want to add that law schools have always been a rat hole of fakery, pretension and stupidity. Was just the same for me back in the late 1970's, though the specific coloration was different. This reality is only getting public notice now because of current circumstances, but the people have always been the same.
I'm not terribly surprised to hear that, but I've gotta think that matters have reached baroque new totalitarian heights over the past 10-15 years.
I'll illustrate your point with a quotation from Shapiro's resignation letter: "In 2018, Georgetown protected this tweet from Professor Carol Christine Fair during Justice Kavanaugh’s confirmation process: “Look at this chorus of entitled white men justifying a serial rapist’s arrogated entitlement. All of them deserve miserable deaths while feminists laugh as they take their last gasps. Bonus: we castrate their corpses and feed them to swine? Yes.”
At Columbia (and not just at the Law School) I was surrounded by that sort of odious rhetoric every single day, without exception. It's just the carcinogenic water you have to swim in. Thank heavens the public is starting to realize what shallow hateful frauds broad swathes of elite higher education consist of.
Agreed that the ideological trip is now much more intense. But the utter moral vacancy and pandering to student approval are the same. Guess you had to have been there.
Before I got hired by Columbia I took the LSAT and had resigned myself that I'd probably have to go to law school. The job offer came in literally the day before I was going to submit all my applications. And then a couple of years later I was working for Columbia Law School, which I imagine I probably would have ended up attending had I not gotten my last minute reprieve. Law school is such a toxic environment that you really have to live it to understand it, it was some tough sledding but in hindsight I am grateful for the experience and that I got paid to endure it instead of going hundreds of thousands of dollars into debt.