{"id":901630,"date":"2021-10-20T11:14:20","date_gmt":"2021-10-20T15:14:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=901630"},"modified":"2021-10-20T11:14:22","modified_gmt":"2021-10-20T15:14:22","slug":"yale-law-school-students-to-media-what-the-actual-f","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/yale-law-school-students-to-media-what-the-actual-f\/","title":{"rendered":"Yale Law School Students to Media: \u2018What the Actual F\u2014!\u2019"},"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\">20<\/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%2Fyale-law-school-students-to-media-what-the-actual-f%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=901630&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--><div readability=\"29.310924369748\">\n\t\t\t<span class=\"article-category\"><a class href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/campus\/\">Campus<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"article-excerpt\">Asian-American student group says comparisons to Maoist China are &#8216;offensively racist&#8217;<\/p>\n<figure class=\"post-thumbnail-container relative lg:mr-24 w-full my-4 mb-8\">\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"736\" height=\"514\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/rsz_gettyimages-1041875104-1.jpg\" class=\"w-full lazyload blur-up wp-post-image\" alt srcset=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 736px) 100vw, 736px\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/rsz_gettyimages-1041875104.jpg 736w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/rsz_gettyimages-1041875104-300x210.jpg 300w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/rsz_gettyimages-1041875104-703x491.jpg 703w\" data-sizes=\"auto\" \/><figcaption class=\"absolute text-white p-4 w-full text-right text-xs bottom-0 bg-black opacity-75\">\n\t\t\t\tYale Law School \/ Getty Images\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\t\t\t<span class=\"text-gray text-xs md:text-lg\"><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/author\/aaron-sibarium\/\" title=\"Posts by Aaron Sibarium\" class=\"author url fn text-red-700\" rel=\"author\">Aaron Sibarium<\/a> \u2022 October 20, 2021 11:10 am<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<div readability=\"104.30941273326\">\n<p>Yale Law School&#8217;s Asian-American student group has a message for the media: &#8220;What the actual fuck!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In the wake of widespread coverage of the law school&#8217;s treatment of Trent Colbert, the Asian Pacific American Law Student Association on Oct. 19 sent a law school-wide email that blasts the &#8220;<strong>people in the media who chose to write stories painting the Federalist Society \u2013 a multi-million dollar organization \u2013 as a victim instead of centering the pain experienced by Black students<\/strong> [emphasis original]<strong>.<\/strong>&#8220;<\/p>\n<p>Especially offensive, the email said, was media coverage that compares &#8220;[Yale Law School] to <i>Maoist reeducation camps<\/i>&#8220;\u2014a jab at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/2021\/10\/14\/yale-law-school-party-invitation-trap-house\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><i>Washington Post<\/i>\u2018s Ruth Marcus<\/a>, who joked that such camps &#8220;have nothing on Yale Law School.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What the actual fuck!&#8221; the email exclaimed. &#8220;Not only is this offensively racist in and of itself to [Asian Pacific American Law Student Association] members, especially those of us with direct family who lived through the Cultural Revolution, it also distracts from and misleadingly reframes the core problem as one of \u2018free speech.&#8217;&nbsp;<b>The problem is not free speech<\/b><strong>.<\/strong>&#8220;<\/p>\n<p>The Asian-American student group also declared its solidarity with Marina Edwards, the president of the Black Law Students Association, and the members of the Dred Scott Society\u2014both of whom issued statements citing the Maoist intellectual Paulo Freire. Freire, best known for his work on &#8220;critical pedagogy,&#8221; repeatedly praised the Cultural Revolution as a real-world application of his theories.<\/p>\n<p>The Asian Pacific American Law Student Association did not respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n<p>The email is the latest in a series of statements by Yale Law School student groups, many of which have condemned Colbert by name. &#8220;We unequivocally condemn Trent Colbert&#8217;s email for its anti-Black and racist language,&#8221; the Asian-American affinity group wrote, echoing the language of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scribd.com\/document\/533536125\/Fwd-FGP-Board-Statement-on-Critical-Dialogue-at-YLS#from_embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">First Generation Professionals at Yale Law School<\/a>. &#8220;Whether it was Trent&#8217;s intention to do so is entirely beside the point \u2013 his words were racially pejorative and they deeply hurt Black people in our community.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;To move forward,&#8221; the email added, &#8220;we must all acknowledge, reckon with, hold ourselves accountable to, and work together to never again replicate this harm.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>All of the statements have praised Yaseen Eldik, the Yale Law School diversity director who implied that Colbert could have trouble with the bar&#8217;s &#8220;character and fitness&#8221; investigations if he didn&#8217;t apologize. &#8220;We especially want to uplift the work that Yaseen Eldik has undertaken to attempt to call Trent into a productive and critical discussion,&#8221; the Asian-American student group said. During that discussion, Eldik told Colbert his membership in the Federalist Society had &#8220;triggered&#8221; his peers.<\/p>\n<p>Some of those &#8220;triggered&#8221; students appear to be members of the Asian-American group. &#8220;<strong>Conservative pundits<\/strong>,&#8221; the group said, &#8220;<b>have invented a crisis of free speech in higher education as a way to distract from the substance of what they are doing in the world\u2014accelerating the climate crisis, propping up the prison-industrial complex, eroding the rights of marginalized communities, deepening economic inequality, and waging perpetual war around the world<\/b><strong>.<\/strong>&#8220;<\/p>\n<p>The cochairs of the Asian Pacific American Law Student Association board are Colette Le Brannan and Kyra Blas. The board&#8217;s &#8220;Political Action Committee&#8221; includes Aaron Bryce Lee, Kevin Chen, Liz Jacob, and Raymond Fang.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"View Fwd Fw TheWall APALSA Board Statement Regarding Free Speech and Recent Events on Scribd\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scribd.com\/document\/533931988\/Fwd-Fw-TheWall-APALSA-Board-Statement-Regarding-Free-Speech-and-Recent-Events#from_embed\">Fwd Fw TheWall APALSA Board Statement Regarding Free Speech and Recent Events<\/a> by <em><a title=\"View Washington Free Beacon&#039;s profile on Scribd\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scribd.com\/publisher\/247263517\/Washington-Free-Beacon#from_embed\">Washington Free Beacon<\/a><\/em> on Scribd<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Campus Asian-American student group says comparisons to Maoist China are &#8216;offensively racist&#8217;  Yale Law School \/ Getty Images  Aaron Sibarium \u2022 October 20, 2021 &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-901630","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\/901630","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\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=901630"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/901630\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=901630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=901630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=901630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}