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It\u2019s possible I\u2019ve written about Harvard too many times in this blog\u2014I realize very few of my readers are likely to ever set foot on the campus. That said, Harvard is influential, and what happens there can affect how other schools behave. They must be aware of their position, and really should make effort to set some sort of honorable standard. Apparently, that\u2019s merely an opinion on my part:<\/p>\n

Harvard Caves to Student Mob, Fires Ronald Sullivan for Being Harvey Weinstein’s Lawyer<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Before going further, allow me to state I\u2019m no fan of Weinstein. I\u2019ve heard the tape, while I acknowledge the possibility what I heard was taken out of context, the rumors swirling around that guy (and Hollywood in general) make it tough not to take it at face value.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m also no fan of lawyers, and I respect Weinstein\u2019s lawyer is going to have his work cut out for him explaining how things aren\u2019t exactly as they appear to be with respect to Weinstein.<\/p>\n

Despite my inherent dislike of Weinstein and lawyers, I acknowledge Weinstein is entitled to a lawyer. Considering how often these sorts of people \u201care involved in suicide activity\u201d if things get so bad for them that they might turn State\u2019s evidence, it\u2019s simple human decency to give them a fair chance to avoid that fate. The lawyer should be allowed to perform his job without undue interference from forces not directly connected to the case.<\/p>\n

Alas, these are the days when not only are disreputable people (or people alleged to be disreputable) subject to attacks, anyone associated (or claimed to be associated) with designated targets are also vulnerable.<\/p>\n

Weinstein\u2019s lawyer\u2019s \u201cday job\u201d is as faculty at Harvard. And, as Weinstein\u2019s lawyer, the mob, composed of students, descended upon him. If Harvard acted with integrity, they would have protected the guy, and moreover would have used the opportunity to teach their students (many of whom are likely to become lawyers themselves) how fundamentally wrong it is to attack the lawyer of even the most deplorable person.<\/p>\n

Harvard did not take the path of integrity or the opportunity to teach their students:<\/p>\n

\u201cHarvard University\u2019s administration has unilaterally surrendered to a mob of student-activists demanding the termination of law professor\u2026over his \u201ctrauma-inducing\u201d decision to join Harvey Weinstein\u2019s legal team.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

I guess I should clarify that Weinstein has multiple lawyers (he\u2019s entitled), and the professor here will remain as faculty\u2026but these are distractions. None of Weinstein\u2019s legal team is a valid target, and none of them should face outside repercussions for choosing to defend the alleged man.<\/p>\n

According to the students, simply being a part of Weinstein\u2019s defense \u201chas made Harvard an unsafe and hostile educational environment.\u201d<\/p>\n

Rubbish, of course, and Harvard\u2019s caving in to such ridiculous student demands reduces the value of Harvard\u2019s educational environment, especially since Harvard is a law school\u2026they really should support the rule of law over mob rule.<\/p>\n

The implications here are frightening. Harvard is now on the record as implying that simply defending someone accused of sexual misconduct is committing a form of sexual misconduct. While my personal belief is Weinstein is guilty of extreme misconduct, he actually hasn\u2019t been found guilty in a court of law as yet, and his lawyers are in no way guilty of such misconduct regardless of any court\u2019s judgement on Weinstein.<\/p>\n

But the mob thinks so, and Harvard is siding with the mob. If a school such as Harvard has made such a ruling, then, across the country, other schools are going to follow suit. It\u2019s no great stretch to think a faculty member who even allows someone accused of such wrongdoing in his class risks attack\u2026but it\u2019s even worse than that.<\/p>\n

These are the days where innocuous things you did years ago can be retroactively determined as incredibly vile crimes; just how many comedians have seen their careers destroyed, if not damaged, by jokes they told many years ago when it was acceptable to tell jokes about topics forbidden today?<\/p>\n

Is it such a stretch to conceive a professor being punished for giving a good grade years ago to someone in the bullseye today? I certainly can\u2019t rule it out, and Harvard has paved the way for such lunacy.<\/p>\n

Even if my musing in the previous paragraph is fantasy\u2014considering the everyday madness on our campuses I honestly don\u2019t believe so\u2014another issue Harvard has raised here is a student safety issue.<\/p>\n

Their defense of their action, reprehensible on the face of it, is that the students didn\u2019t feel safe, and that Harvard is justified in doing whatever it takes to make the students feel safe.<\/p>\n

And this is still madness.<\/p>\n

Yes, the students didn\u2019t feel safe with Weinstein\u2019s defense lawyer around, but their fears were completely unjustified. The lawyer isn\u2019t even accused of sexual assault, after all. Instead of explaining to the students, adults, that their fears were ridiculous, Harvard caved in.<\/p>\n

Once again, other schools will take notice and determine that they can indeed do whatever they want in the name of \u201cstudent safety,\u201d protecting students from ideas they don\u2019t like (already done to a considerable extent), as well as a host of \u201cthreats\u201d I can\u2019t even conceive of because I think rationally, and this is not something one can expect of a mob.<\/p>\n

And yet we have people willing to commit criminal fraud and pay ridiculous sums of money just to get their kids into schools like Harvard. I can\u2019t quite pin this on the student loan scam, which is why I often discuss the edu-fascistic takeover of higher ed, as Harvard\u2019s behavior is simply a reflection of it: both admin and the ideologues benefit greatly from abandoning the basic concepts of the rule of law.<\/p>\n

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