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David Lat's avatar

From a reader:

"At 26:53, one of the student demonstrators says, 'Ok, let's just let him finish his rant in complete silence so he can get that out and it can go into the newspaper or whatever. Just pointed silence until the Q&A.' Then the room fell completely silent. At this point, Judge Duncan abandoned his prepared remarks and jumped straight into the Q&A. This is important context because the tone of the conversation nationwide is that the student demonstrators never gave Duncan an opportunity to speak, which is not true. This is clear evidence of that, and the conversation is misleading without it. At the very least, it's worth mentioning in your timestamps because I think the narrative is incomplete without it."

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thomas Dreyer's avatar

The only way that universities are going to eliminate the heckler veto is to swiftly deal with those that disrupt these events. With out consequences the disruptions will continue and escalate. It is my understanding that the dean of the law school received somewhat similar treatment when attempting to teach her class. Simply for apologizing to the judge

If these students were suspended for the balance of the semester and the administrator was also suspended that would send a message that the behavior won’t be tolerated.

I started my career working as a counselor on an adolescent unit. If you don’t set and enforce limits you get bad behavior

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