{"id":184763,"date":"2021-03-01T12:45:47","date_gmt":"2021-03-01T17:45:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=184763"},"modified":"2021-03-01T13:02:42","modified_gmt":"2021-03-01T18:02:42","slug":"law-school-student-letter-details-culture-of-bullying-at-university-of-north-carolina","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/law-school-student-letter-details-culture-of-bullying-at-university-of-north-carolina\/","title":{"rendered":"Law School Student Letter Details \u2018Culture Of Bullying\u2019 At University Of North Carolina"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Flaw-school-student-letter-details-culture-of-bullying-at-university-of-north-carolina%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=184763&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>A group of law students at the University of North Carolina penned an open letter decrying the school\u2019s \u201cculture of bullying\u201d after a student was doxxed for comments that were taken out of context. A black student was subsequently called a racist for refusing to condemn the out-of-context comments.<\/p>\n<p>In a document obtained by The Daily Wire, law students at the University of North Carolina detailed how leftists have created a \u201cculture of bullying\u201d toward those who hold unfavorable political views. The letter claims that what the university would have once called \u201cbullying\u201d is now an acceptable form of activism, and those who were once the \u201cvictims\u201d of bullying are now guilty of showcasing their \u201cwhite fragility.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe subjects of bullying were once called victims. They now categorize them as suffering from an inability to understand or \u2018white fragility,\u2019\u201d the letter reads. \u201cThose who oppose being threatened, bullied, or shouted down are called \u2018white supremacists,\u2019 \u2018white nationalists,\u2019 \u2018bigots,\u2019 or \u2018racists.\u2019 By using these politically convenient terms, bullying those in disagreement somehow becomes morally justified.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>One of the authors of the document told The Daily Wire that there has always been hostility toward right-of-center views, though there was a noticeable increase following the Capitol riot on January 6. One law student took to Facebook to declare that using an American flag as a Zoom background was an example of \u201cMAGA energy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAmerican flag hanging on your wall and centered in your Zoom background is big MAGA energy, and I appreciate my (white male) MAGA law school colleagues outing themselves so easily and visibly,\u201d the post read.<\/p>\n<div class=\"image\"><\/div>\n<p>The letter claims that the \u201cbullying\u201d tactics intensified after two students in a first-year law class had a disagreement about colonialism in North America. According to a transcript of the recorded conversation, \u201cStudent A\u201d claimed that Europeans brutally colonized the west while \u201cStudent B\u201d pointed out that brutal practices, conquest, and enslavement were commonplace before colonization.<\/p>\n<p>In part of the conversation, Student B suggested that Student A \u2014 a black man \u2014 look at the ongoing colonization in Cameroon if Student A was looking to fight a modern-day battle of colonialism. Student A suggested that Student B was explicitly telling him to return to Africa. Those words were never uttered.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Student A: \u201cAmazingly, Native people live here for 60,000 plus years with no problems, and in 600 years of colonialism the planet has been set on fire.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Student B: \u201cI don\u2019t think it\u2019s accurate to say that there were no problems. Conquest, enslavement of defeated tribes, human sacrifice, ritualized rape, etc. were all war tactics used in tribal warfare, from the Mayans to the Comanche. That does not excuse Spanish or English colonization, but in the name of academic honesty, thought it was worth mentioning.\u201d\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Student B: \u201cThe argument that there were \u2018no problems\u2019 prior to colonization is objectively incorrect.\u201d\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Student A: \u201cNo, your argument is that white people were entitled to do so.\u201d\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Student B: \u201cMy argument is that the claim that there were \u2018no problems\u2019 for centuries is factually wrong.\u201d\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Student A: \u201cNone of the problems resulting from white supremacy perhaps would have been more succinct. By problems, I mean environmental racism.\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Student B proceeded to explain how despite the brutality of European colonization, it eventually led to prosperity for many.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Student B: \u201cIt explains why you now live in privilege now that the lines have been drawn.\u201d\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Student A: \u201cOh I live in privilege? Tell me more about my privilege.\u201d\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Student B: \u201cYou are an American attending an elite law school in the 21st century. If you are looking for a good cause, you can always travel to Cameroon and fight the colonizers there.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Student A: \u201cDid you just tell me to go back to Africa?\u201d\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Student B: \u201cI\u2019m saying that people talk about colonization like we\u2019re all culpable for great evil. My point is that if you want to fight colonization, there are actual civil wars occurring now between natives and colonizers, like in Cameroon.\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Following the tense interaction, the Black Law Student Association (BLSA) circulated a letter to the student body accusing Student B of suggesting \u201cthat a Black peer should return to Africa\u201d and condemning Student B as a \u201cracist.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The letter also accused the professor who oversaw the colonialism argument of \u201cemboldening\u201d Student B to make \u201crepulsive and derogatory\u201d comments.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRecently, there were multiple racist incidents that occurred within [first-year] classrooms that have yet to be publicly acknowledged and addressed by the UNC Law Administration,\u201d the letter reads. \u201cAs a whole, the Class of 2023, upperclassmen, and many of our professors have been kept in the dark about the repulsive and derogatory comments that were aimed directly at a student of color.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>BLSA\u2019s letter also condemned the university for failing to reprimand the professor.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe administration has made it clear that its concern lies with protecting the possible tenure of the professor who emboldened a student to feel comfortable making numerous racist, bigoted, and harmful comments that disproportionately affected the students of color in our class.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As tensions escalated among first-year law students, the law school student government co-president reviewed the transcript to decide whether offensive comments had been made. The first-year class co-president concluded that no student told any other student to \u201creturn to Africa.\u201d This invalidated the claims made by the BLSA.<\/p>\n<p>In a first-year law student messaging group obtained by The Daily Wire, a white student denounced the class co-president \u2014 a black man \u2014 as a racist and called for him to resign.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo you\u2019re racist,\u201d the white student said.<\/p>\n<div class=\"image\"><\/div>\n<p>In a Zoom call, another student said that the co-president wanted to be welcomed to the \u201cwhite boys club.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy guy clearly wants to be welcomed into the \u2018white boys\u2019 club so of course, it makes him feel good.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"image\"><\/div>\n<p>Another student insinuated that the black co-president is not sufficiently black because he holds power. The student proceeded to call for the co-president\u2019s resignation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[I\u2019m going] to have to accept this as your letter of resignation. You aren\u2019t addressing us as your peers,\u201d the student said in a messaging app. \u201cWho do you think you are to declare that something a black person has experienced is or is not racism? With your resignation you can worry a little less about speaking with your foot in your mouth and a little more about the critical race reading you obviously haven\u2019t done.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"image\"><\/div>\n<p>The students who penned the letter said that the administration is aware of the ongoing harassment against Student B and the class co-president, but has yet to respond. Students claim they are fearful that their comments may be taken out of context in the future and their careers will be dismantled for it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe law school has been made aware of the bullying described above, yet has made no statement,\u201d the student\u2019s letter concludes. \u201cWe return to class every day worried that we may be next. What might we say that may be taken out of context? Could we lose our careers? Our futures?\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em>member<\/em><\/a><em>.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A group of law students at the University of North Carolina penned an open letter decrying the school\u2019s \u201cculture of bullying\u201d after a student was doxxed for comments that were &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2274461,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-184763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184763","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184763"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184763\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2274461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}