If you want to know what is happening in the Connecticut city that’s home to Yale University and its activist and intimidating law school, here’s some advice: Cross the Atlantic and read England’s Daily Mail, because the Nutmeg State local media — namely, the New Haven Register and the ABC affiliate, WTNH — refuse to cover the madness happening under their noses.
The madness is this, per the Daily Mail: Brats at the Yale Law School, the same ones who last March disrupted a free-speech panel featuring conservative lawyer Kristen Waggoner (a story you would not have read about at the Register or seen on WTNH — it was left to the New York Post and other non-New Haven outlets to cover the outrage), have now embarked on plotting “unrelenting daily confrontation” directed at conservative classmates, particularly those belonging to the school’s chapter of the Federalist Society. Torqued by the release of Justice Samuel Alito’s draft opinion that might kybosh Roe v. Wade, the jurisprudential darlings took to social media to demand targeting outrage and harm at real people:
In [Instagram posts], a number of liberal law students took aim at their conservative peers — in particular, members of the law school’s Federalist Society.
‘The members of YLS [Federalist Society] are conspirators in the Christo-fascist political takeover we all seem to be posting frantically about,’ first-year law student Shyamala Ramakrishna said in an Instagram posting.
‘So why are they still coming to our parties/laughing in the library/roaming these weirdly high school-esque halls with precious few social consequences and without unrelenting daily confrontation?’
Another first-year law student, Leah Fessler, who is planning on interning for federal Judge Lewis Liman this summer, wrote: ‘Democratic Institutions won’t save us. If you’re not ready to hold accountable the people and groups who at this very school produced the men who just took away women’s bodily autonomy, miss me with the commentary.’
‘Democratic institutions won’t save us,’ she added. ‘It’s not time for “reform.”‘
They were sentiments echoed by first-year law student Melisa Olgun: ‘Neither the Constitution nor the courts — nor the f***ing illusion of ‘democracy’ — are going to save us. How can we possibly expect a document, drafted by wealthy, white, landowning men, to protect those who face marginalization that is the direct result oof the very actions of the founders?’ she wrote.
By the way, this story was broken by Washington Free Beacon reporter Adam Sibarium on May 14th (read it here). Still, the point of this kvetching is that expanded and significant coverage is coming from abroad rather than from those Fifth Estaters paid to write about stuff happening in the Elm City.
Maybe I am overreacting. After all, this Yale free-speech hate/student-intimidation story may have been squeezed out by more important news. Consider the top article featured on today’s Register website: West Haven woman’s support Chihuahua will walk in cap, gown at SCSU commencement. Gosh, who doesn’t love a dog/commencement story? And then there’s this profound article, Greenwich’s Dr. Kim Nichols appears on Bravo’s ‘Below Deck Sailing Yacht’, that the Register felt compelled to publish, leaving no space for trivial matters, such as the one about elite future super-lawyers plotting continual coercion and ostracization of fellow students who bizarrely find the Constitution a compelling legal document (which sounds like a whacked Legally Blond sequel, this one maybe Legally Woke — I claim no copywrite of the idea, so feel free to run with it).
Meanwhile, at WTNH, the ABC station’s limited air time — it needed to prioritize essential stories such as Mexico’s issuing gender-neutral identity documents in the U.S. and Canada — may sufficiently explain its shunning the story on shunning.
Or maybe, just maybe, local New Haven reporters are simply lazy and gutless and afraid to give more attention to boomerang-able, extreme, and disturbing leftist antics taking place at 06520. Or of putting names to the faces and social-media posts of radical students who one day, given the pedigree of Yale Law School, will expect to be addressed as Your Honor and Madame Justice. Yeah, that sounds right.