We should also rename things named after Senator Robert Byrd as well. Why don't you rant about him being a KKK member too.

FYI: It's okay to be racist if you're a Dem.

Just ask Elie about Biden or Dodd or any union member or Obama's "typical white person" grandmother. But if you're a Harvard 3L and write something impolitic you're f#cked.

If you're a Harvard 3L, you're f***** anyway, because I'm coming to find all of you and your Business School cousins to take back America for the Real Americans.

Let me get this straight, Elie.

Texas screwed up back in the 1950s and named a dorm after a guy who was a racist klan member. More than 50 years later, the current administration finds out about it, realizes how bad this is for a place that is trying to be a welcoming environment for all students, and forms a committee of administrators, professors, and students to look into the best way to right this wrong. And you're pissed?

"I’m just saying, faced with this situation, there are a lot of positive things the university could do. The solution to unfortunate history isn’t to ignore it; it’s to try to make the future better."

Isn't that exactly what the university is trying to do here--not just sweep the story under the rug? Rather than just a knee-jerk reaction to pretend this history didn't happen, they're acknowledging that a previous administration made a mistake and trying to make a rational decision about how to remedy that mistake after a thorough investigation. Can you articulate a single rational problem with the university's reaction?

Naming a dorm after a long-dead person is one thing, but most law schools today are full of tenured racists; how many law profs are members of La Raza? The temporary law lecturer in the White House hired a La Raza operative as his immigration adviser.

Jose Vasconcelos, who coined the phrase "La Raza" explained it this way: "The lower type of the species will be absorbed by the superior type. In this manner, for example, the Black could be redeemed, and step by step, by voluntary extinction, the uglier stocks will give way to the more handsome. Inferior races, upon being educated, would become less prolific, and the better specimens would go on ascending a scale of ethnic improvement."

AND: "We recognize that it is not fair that people like the Chinese, who under the saintly guidance of Confucian morality, multiply like mice, should come to degrade the human condition precisely at the moment when we begin to understand that intelligence serves to refrain and regulate the lower zoological instincts….”

This would never happen in Texas.

*fume* LIBERALS! *fume* AFFIRMATIVE ACTION! *fume* my tiny cock *sob* *sniff*

That is all.

Saturday Edition of good firm/shitlaw

GOOD FIRMS - weathered the recession well, stood by associates when things got tough

1) WACHTELL

2) GIBSON DUNN

3) CONVINGTON

4) WILLIAMS & CONNELLY

5) SKADDEN (ty for sabbaticals instead of Lathaming)

6) DEBEVOISE

7) ARNOLD & PORTER

8) IRELL

9) MUNGER

10) CLEARY

11) DPW

12) SULLIVAN & CROMWELL

13) PAUL WEISS

14) CRAVATH

SHITTTLIST

1) CADWALADER - leverages associates 8 per equity partner, makes as much $$ as possible, throws associates out when economy tanks, says they'd do it all again

2) LATHAM - pretty much a CADWALADER that bullshits itself out as a Skadden. thinks nothing of ruthlessly Lathaming people four months after they arrive at the firm

3) GOODWIN PROCTER - blacklists their own laid off people

4) MCDERMOTTT

5) AKIN GUMP

6) WHITE & CASE - laid off a shitload of people, TTT enough to lose partners to LaTTTham (out of the frying pan and into the fire!)

7) PROSKAUER - laid off a bunch of first years 2 months into the job, for PERFORMANCE REASONS (lol)

8) CLIFFORD CHANCE

9) DLA PIPER - quietly laying off a shitload of people. created from mergers of many small TTT firms

10) MORGAN LEWIS - ~20% summer associate offer rate. really MLB ?

11) BAKER BOTTS - No offered a bunch of summer associates. 1 out of 8 received an offer in NY. TTT.

12) KILLpatrick Stockton - a brilliant partner in the DC office committed suicide after being lathamed by them. they wouldn't even let him stay and use his office while searching for a new job.

13) EVERSHEDS - were found liable for laying off an associate on the basis of gender

OK Elie - the subject of race is tired. It served you well in life but don't you think it is time to stop pushing racism to get page views?

We get it, you went to the same school as Obama. Your brilliance in that regard shows what level of respect we should have for that dumbass as well. Take a lesson from him. When he posts all those videos on youtube to try and get easy votes from the youth that are being brainwashed by the liberal academics, he never actually says anything meaningful. Maybe you should try to emulate his style of communication, you may get more credibility.

Elie *has* to play the race card. It is the only card in his hand. This blog is dying. It peaked when Darby & Darby blew up, then it has been on a downhill slide ever since.

Since Elie took the helm this blog has become a BALSA mouthpiece which sometimes discusses the legal market.

Here you go libtards:

http://conservativeamerican...

. . . a partial list (1500 items) regarding the man that is bringing the USA down faster than any other POTUS.

That's awesome! My favorite is # 1406 - How Obama lied about not being able to operate an iPod for the sake of a joke. He's unfit to be the Commander in Chief!

While you're at it, numbnutz, don't forget to change the names of all of the buildings named after my personal favorite, Ronald Wilson Reagan. He may not have been a Klan member (or was he?) but his blacklisting activities during the McCarthy years ceratinly earn him an honorable mention.

"He may not have been a Klan member (or was he?) but his blacklisting activities during the McCarthy years ceratinly earn him an honorable mention."

Because trying to root out people who are advancing a communist takeover of the government is *totally* equal to being a Klansman.

communists!!!! oh nos!!!!

"No, asshole, he was "totally" trying to ruin innocent people's lives by falsely accusing..."

And your evidence for the "falsely" bit is...?

The fact that, yes, there were committed communists working to advance the cause in the U.S. and working with the Soviet Union has been pretty heavily documented at this point. This isn't 1970; quit trying to hide behind that. If you have something indicating Reagan was falsely accusing people, feel free to provide it.

No, asshole, he was "totally" trying to ruin innocent people's lives by falsely accusing them of being unpatriotic, which makes him the single biggest asshole in Presidential history.

which is worse? klansmen or rapist?

'cos I know some great klan jokes. wanna hear them?

Elie says rape funny, klan not so funny.

Obvious UTTT trolling.

“White people really, really piss me off sometimes.”

–Elie Mystal, in a blog post expressing his disappointment that many people do not agree with him that the much-discussed Harvard e-mail is plainly racist.

http://volokh.com/2010/05/0...

In that same post, he also said: " . . . I’m not a goddamn idiot."

So, you really need to take everything he says with a grain of . . . no fuck that, just skip over his posts and only read Lat's posts.

THIS IS AN OUTRAGE

I WILL EMAIL EVERYONE

I do not rule out the possibility that white people are genetically predisposed to be more likely to join the KKK than black people.

Awesome.

The Southern Poverty Law Center can kiss my @ss. They are a joke. According to them, everyone is a racist.

Wow, seriously good point. I mean, they even think Ron Edwards is a racist. If Ron Edwards is a racist, then we are all racists.

Partner, you are an idiot. Sure, they can identify a few real racists, but they routinely also identify traditionalist Catholics and traditionalist Jews as racists too, solely because of their conservative values. The SPLC is like the ACLU - a sham organization created by liberals to defame and bismirch conservatives by grouping them with actual racists.

Many significant historical figures held views that modern society would frown upon. Yet, that does not mean that things bearing their names should be changed. Should the name of the Rhodes Scholarship be changed because Cecil Rhodes was an imperialist and firm believer of the superiority of the Anglo-Saxon race? Should the Susan B. Anthony dollar be removed from circulation because she believed it unfair that blacks, but not women, had voting rights? To Anthony, it was incredulous that uneducated black males would have more rights (and therefore more social standing) than white women. Should Planned Parenthood's Margaret Sanger award be renamed because she advocated eugenics?

Yes. It sounds like we might need to rename you, too, if you don't submit to reeducation.

It's either that or you'll have to pay reparations.

Again, what the F*&% does this have to do with the legal profession? Oh that's right, it's just your own personal op-ed against the caucasian race.

Get a job blogging and write whatever the F you want.

It only makes sense to rename it if they're going to pick something black people like.

I'd suggest Grape Drink Hall.

Isn't the "Sir Isaac Royall Professor of Law at Harvard Law School" position named after a man that made his fortune in the slave trade?

Honestly, don't ya'll know anything about how Universities work? What's the likelihood that the dean of the law school even controlled the naming of a dorm that was for law students AND other graduate students? Hello, money, money, and oh, did I mention money, that's what dorms are named for. It's not the JACKSON School of Geosciences or the JOE JAMAIL Pavilion or the MCCOMBS School of Business for nothin'. Why the assumption that dorms were selected any other way 50+ years ago?

And please, please, please let's discuss how this is so freakin' racist and reflects badly on Texas because 50 years ago some rich white guy probably gave a bunch of money to the University and no one bothered to google his extracurricular activities. By all means. And you pigheaded yankees and Hahvahd types can stay there and call your chocolate sprinkles "jimmies" and live in your little bubble. Let me just say, the LAST person who told me how racist the south was, how racist the entirety of America was, etc. etc. etc., then later, in her home country, informed me that the gypsies all around us on the streets "weren't human" and I should "just ignore them." I call B. freaking. S. Elie.

"50 years ago some rich white guy probably gave a bunch of money to the University and no one bothered to google his extracurricular activities. "

Why oh why didn't they think to use google??

Precisely my point. :) How did we learn about anything before *gasp* the existence of Google? Hence why are we so shocked that it was hard to discover an old dude's membership in an essentially secret society, when (a) those peers of his who would know this information have been dead for some time and (b) it was something that wasn't available at the click of a button back then. Yay irony!

wait you don't call chocolate sprinkles jimmies too? this is news to me.

This article is absurd, in both its unconscionably misleading headline and its absurd expectations. I read the article expecting to find that UT was currently planning to re-name a building after someone who has known ties to the KKK. Instead I find in actuality that they are doing the proper thing, and considering renaming a building that has previously been named after a KKK member. Big difference, and you're a tool.

And nobody at UT named that dorm after a noted KKK leader. They named it after a contributor and friend of the university, and he is undoubtedly continued to be admired solely for those reasons, and for no others. A number of other posters have noted that there are probably numerous buildings all over public universities in the South with buildings named after racists. But are we going to stop teaching our children about Thomas Jefferson because he owned slaves (note the irony in Rick Perry's attempt to do just that)? Of course not. Are we going to tear down the Jefferson Memorial and close the University of Virginia?

Come on.

"Administration officials claim they only recently became aware of the Simkins’s supremacist background. That’s probably true. But something tells me that 55 years ago, when the dorm opened, somebody at UT damn well knew that this law prof was a Klansman…"

"This is exactly why Holocaust deniers are so dangerous and evil — civilization has a way of forgetting its most evil moments."

Speaking of the Holocaust . . .

James B. Conant welcomed high-ranking Nazi officials to your university, Mystal, long after it was clear what they were doing and worked with them after the war to keep a number of them from being prosecuted, all while trying to limit the number of Jews attending your university. Pretty much everybody on campus knew of this fact.

Last time I checked, doesn't he have a few things on campus named after him? Of course UT building's name should be changed, but it, overall, it's a fairly liberal university (whatever it was 50 years ago) and it's just plain ignorant to argue otherwise. If you're going to act so indignant now about them not being more outraged, don't you think this should have bothered you during the seven years you were at your alma mater?

Now, granted, these weren't people with your background (i.e., they were often actually poor, but also of a different ethnicity), so I guess it's hard to be outraged that Conant thought it should be more difficult for Jews to gain admission than other ethnicities 50 years ago when you support admissions policies that result in this same thing today.

Elie is only outraged by people's opinions of black Americans. People's negative opinions of jews are not to be silenced or censored. Elie will mask this by referring to the jews as Israelis.

I met the young Mr. William Stewart Simkins in 1874 during a speaking tour which took me through Corsicana, Texas. As a staunch abolitionist prior to the Civil War, Mr.Simkins' politics greatly disturbed me. What disturbed me even more, however, was his decidedly limp hand shake and predatory gaze.

Dislike schtick.

Young man, if there is one thing I have learned in my 186 years, its that you can't please everyone all of the time.

"This is exactly why Holocaust deniers are so dangerous and evil — civilization has a way of forgetting its most evil moments."

This comparison is a joke, right MysTTTal? I want you to get this through your barely-literate skull, so I'm going to be blunt. All this racial inequality, all these things you and the vocal minority like you care about just so, so much? It's not that we don't know all this stuff -- it's that we don't care. We don't care about it. We don't care about you, or your disadvantages, or your culture, or your background, or anything else you hold dear.

We never have, we never will, and you'll never be able to make us. And when you look around in 50 years (assuming you have died of heat disease before then) and see how little has changed, I want you to remember this.

I thought this type was extinct, and in fact if you are around in 50 years (and I won't be as vile as you) you will definitely be balking and whining how much things have changed... why is it that when people express a point of view different from what some people are used too, they get all whiny and vitiolic?

Your delusions and reality are two very, very different things, sweetheart. See you in the future.

This was the most tedious and inconsequential thing I read all day.