Stanford Law students should be ashamed over their recent disruption of an event featuring a federal judge, but unfortunately, as Rich and the gang discuss on today’s Editors episode, they’ll keep behaving this way until someone hands down real consequences.
Maddy says, “It would be one thing if these students were gender-studies majors, but these are law students. These are people who are supposed to be learning about reason, persuasion, civility, integrity — the law. And it’s just an insight into the kind of education they’re getting that they think this is acceptable.”
When asked if he thinks these students will grow out of this behavior, MBD replies, “Look at the way the New York Times reacted under James Bennet . . . he literally was put through a struggle session the day he was fired. He had to grovelingly apologize for ‘harming’ everyone at the New York Times for running an op-ed.”
Michael does hold out some hope, however: “On the other hand, I do believe a lot of these people are acting this way just because the institution permits it. . . . And when they run into institutions that don’t permit it — if there are any left — they won’t be able to get away with it anymore.”
To hear the rest of this conversation, along with our panelists’ definition of “woke,” listen below.