For this spewing of hate, the young law student wins the "'book award,'" which designated him as the best student in the class.'" His paper was, let me repeat, a capstone, as the reporter states. As such, it counted most toward the final grade.
Look up. Take a breath. Remember, in America we have yet to confront that ugly foundation of racism. America produced a long line of racists and white supremacist that result in a Trump Americans voted to represent them in the world. American society produced the judge Badalamenti. Americans, including Damsky's parents, produced him.
Here's a young American who has learned from an older American to see a world without them! Damsky is ready for the war!
I've taught at universities for decades, at the graduate level, too. The syllabus usually has among dates assignments are due, a section on the criteria for the course. There is usually a section in which students are warned about hate language, abusive language, at best, inappropriate language-- in papers and within the classroom. I'm wondering about the atmosphere in this seminar. How was it for other students? When the reporter refers to the other students in Damsky's class, he describes, what is to me, an atmosphere of fear. No one wants to identify themselves for fear of losing future positions at law firms.
What of these not-so-best students? What did they need to think, let alone produce in a paper to challenge Damsky's paper? Would these students have been rewarded too if they suggested that coliseums should be built be feed blacks to the lions?
Damsky is the best student at what? The other potential lawyers, as they sat in that seminar, must have asked themselves this question. So should we!
As asks, "what merit could the judge have seen" in Damsky's paper? We need to see change at the university level, but, at colleges and universities, is this to become the change?
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