stephen-fine.bsky.social
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BM-Rice (‘06), MM-SFCM (‘08)
I did some mining of academian ore, but Lord Chaos held something else in store; I was vomited from a beast’s belly onto the shore. But this is no firmament. Where am I?
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That’s good to know, since, in my experiences talking to Palestinians, it’s been often more literal.
It’s hard to have this discussions when the terminology can refer to such a wide swath of policy options.
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So, just citizenship?
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The whole, “my family still has the keys to the building” type thing.
I assumed that they want the building back and they want whoever lives there now to leave.
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My understanding of the right of return is that Palestinians have the right to return to previously owned property?
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Wouldn’t the right of return necessarily dispossess people?
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I just think that logically if we are dispossessing millions of Jews, they’re going to need some place to go and while most of the casual anti Zionist crowd likes to joke (or not joke) that they could “go back to Brooklyn” the fact is that most didn’t come from Brooklyn.
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I mean, I’m in favor of reparations for slavery in the US, so I guess I’m in favor of the right of return for Palestinians.
But I guess I wonder about how the right of return applies to the largest demographic group in Israel, Jews descended from Iraqi/Egyptian/Libyan Jews.
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Haha. The irony comes later.
2nd and 3rd order consequences that are only laughed at from an outside perspective.
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Part of the reason that federal judge was hired to teach that class was because the law school phased out the decades-old trial practice program that was staffed by local attorneys.
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I have particular insight into the music school and the law school, but it’s a university-wide problem that has accelerated under DeSantis.
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I agree with you.
In general, I think that the State has over-involved itself in internal university politics far too much over the past 15 years or so much to the detriment of what was an extraordinary educational institution.
It’s been a nightmarish decline in quality from my standpoint.
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I think he’s even wrong about his “we the people” only referring to “white people” exclusively.
He’s just wrong all around. But that’s pretty standard for originalism. You have to be susceptible to misreading history and bad logic.
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Whether or not it’s good law or honest law (it’s not and it’s not), UF law isn’t totally crazy to hire a professor who believes in it since it is sometimes underpinning Supreme Court precedent these days.
Lawyers are arguing along those lines to convince the S.C. dummy squad who profess to believe.
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I’ve heard that the politics at the law school had gotten bad, but not as bad as you’re implying with your conflated timeline.
He wrote the racist paper, won the award. The school defends the professor giving the award.
Then he goes full hood-off online and the school suspends him.
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I think the law school has a restraining order against the guy barring him from campus.
What they were defending was the award for his paper (probably to defend the Trump appointed federal judge they’d brought in to teach the class).
It wasn’t even good Originalism though so I’m pretty shocked.
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From there, he's essentially discounting the Amendment process: bc the Constitution can only be for white people, he's arguing, any amendment (like the 14A) which cuts against that is unconstitutional. So, now he's adding a qualification to amending the Constitution that isn't in the Constitution!
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To me, as an instructor, what sticks out is this: you totally *can* fail this paper *because it's factually wrong.* He seems to be not simply arguing that the Framers thought the Constitution was for whites only, but arguing that it *should* apply to whites only, forever.
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I am surprised, for the same reason that @jgienapp.bsky.social mentions. These are old ideas. They long predate anything called “originalism” and are widely rejected by originalists. This is an effort to legitimate them within a dominant mode of constitutional interpretation on the legal right.
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I agree with that. But that’s not exactly what they’re doing. I mean, it’s effectively what they’re doing, but not precisely.
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Usually cities can’t enact laws that conflict with state or federal laws. And there’s something called Dillon’s Rule that says localities don’t have powers not granted by the state.
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I applied for the Bronfman Fellowship back in 2001 and made it to the final selection round, flew up to NYC for an interview, and then was told by the interviewer that though I was a good candidate, he didn’t know if “the South was ready yet.”
Insanely offensive attitude. My rabbi was so upset.
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That’s… not a famous quote.
It does sound like something a snobby asshole might’ve said once.
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Was it scary? Yes.
Am I afraid to take the subway? No.
But if something like that was happening regularly to me on the subway, that would change my mind. I don’t live there now so I’m not in a position to judge.
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Pretty good furniture entry in the Jewish Encyclopedia.
www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/643...
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I think Tucker’s point that Ted is eliding Abram, Eretz Israel, and Medinat Israel is the obvious one to make and it would’ve been fun if his producer had fed him the chapter and verse to cite so that he could point out that it’s Abram being addressed personally.
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Also on the survivors “privilege” of leaving the old country before the Holocaust, it’s good to remember why our people were fleeing from the 19th century… they were fleeing the lynchings and ethnic cleansings that were the pogroms. It’s not like they just thought the US would be nice.
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I think we absolutely have some pride in identifying as a people who survived (again), but it doesn’t make us stupid. We would much prefer it if all our cousins hadn’t been murdered.
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They’re ignorant of the glory that was Jewish Europe. Thousands of synagogues pillaged and destroyed. American tourists to Europe always marvel at the old churches filled with art and artifacts.
Jewish infrastructure in the great cities of Europe was first rate and I’ll never see it.
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The “first heat warning” is a scientific choice, it’s not because it’s never been hot in Alaska in the summer.
Alaska gets hot in the summers. The sun never goes down.
(But, yes, climate change is real, it’s hotter further north than it used to be, we are doomed.)