{"id":17823,"date":"2021-04-09T07:28:45","date_gmt":"2021-04-09T14:28:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/politicalhat.com\/?p=17823"},"modified":"2021-04-09T07:28:45","modified_gmt":"2021-04-09T14:28:45","slug":"four-legs-bipoc-two-legs-white","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2021\/04\/09\/four-legs-bipoc-two-legs-white\/","title":{"rendered":"Four Legs BIPOC; Two Legs White?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\u201cSocial Justice\u201d has advanced in all its systemic privilege and systemic power to outright say that the mere existence of Whites as students who contribute to a schools \u201ctotal whiteness\u201d score is inherently bad and that denying students admission because they are White is a laudable \u201cjustice\u201d goal. The veritable <a href=\"https:\/\/threadreaderapp.com\/thread\/1369346203314397185.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Christopher Rufo<\/a> yet again shows this \u201cAnimal Farm\u201d thinking:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;BIPOC:White::Four Legs Good:Two Legs Bad<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" align=\"center\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\" align=\"center\">SCOOP: A University of Dayton professor is now ranking law schools according to their &quot;total whiteness&quot;\u2014and demanding that they eliminate &quot;excess whiteness&quot; from their campuses and programs.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#39;s how it works. \ud83e\uddf5 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/hhNJtNuUja\">pic.twitter.com\/hhNJtNuUja<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Christopher F. Rufo \u2694\ufe0f (@realchrisrufo) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realchrisrufo\/status\/1369346203314397185?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 9, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\" align=\"center\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">According to the report, called &quot;The Whitest Law Schools,&quot; 94% of law schools have reduced their &quot;total whiteness&quot; in the past 15 years. The goal is to measure and encourage additional year-over-year reductions in &quot;Whiteness points.&quot; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/HTDhsAk4kC\">pic.twitter.com\/HTDhsAk4kC<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Christopher F. Rufo \u2694\ufe0f (@realchrisrufo) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realchrisrufo\/status\/1369346207332569097?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 9, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Aside from the fact that the law in the United States (and the rest of the Anglo-sphere) is based on Common Law that was developed by\u2026Whites so White they were literally Anglo-Saxons, the idea that that legal inheritance can be improved or harmed by the mere color of a law student\u2019s skin is and ought to be repugnant not just morally but to the very essence of the law.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-14967\" src=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Animal-Farm.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"449\" height=\"298\" srcset=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Animal-Farm.jpg 449w, https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Animal-Farm-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 449px) 100vw, 449px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;And they will destroy anything and everything, including academic integrity, in order eliminate \u201cexcess whiteness\u201d.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\" align=\"center\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The professor recommends that schools reduce &quot;whiteness&quot; by eliminating standardized test scores in admissions and competitive grading in law school courses. In addition, schools should enact explicit race quotas for the &quot;elimination [of] excess whiteness.&quot; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/tnNYa1Ed3Y\">pic.twitter.com\/tnNYa1Ed3Y<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Christopher F. Rufo \u2694\ufe0f (@realchrisrufo) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realchrisrufo\/status\/1369346211325575168?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 9, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\" align=\"center\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The mission of this program is to measure students by skin color rather than academic achievement. The language of the report is gleefully dehumanizing\u2014applied to any other race, it would be instantly condemned. Law schools would be wise to reject this mode of thought.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Christopher F. Rufo \u2694\ufe0f (@realchrisrufo) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realchrisrufo\/status\/1369346213166931970?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 9, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;When &#8220;justice&#8221; becomes qualified by the word &#8220;racial&#8221; or &#8220;social&#8221;, it isn&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p><meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary\" \/><meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@PoliticHatBlog\" \/><meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@ThePoliticalHat\" \/><meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Four Legs BIPOC; Two Legs White?\"\/><meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"'Social Justice' has advanced in all its systemic privilege and systemic power to outright say that the mere existence of Whites as students who contribute to a schools 'total whiteness' score is inherently bad and that denying students admission because they are White is a laudable 'justice' goal.  The veritable Christopher Rufo yet again shows this 'Animal Farm' thinking\" \/><meta name=\"twitter:image\" content=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Animal-Farm.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\u201cSocial Justice\u201d has advanced in all its systemic privilege and systemic power to outright say that the mere existence of Whites as students who contribute to a schools \u201ctotal whiteness\u201d score is inherently bad and that denying students admission because &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2021\/04\/09\/four-legs-bipoc-two-legs-white\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14967,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,17],"tags":[25,48],"class_list":["post-17823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education","category-progressives","tag-higher-ed","tag-social-justice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17823"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17823\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17825,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17823\/revisions\/17825"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}