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by Greg Piper<\/h5>\n

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The threat of losing federal funding or defending against an expensive lawsuit, for allegedly promoting discrimination against popular punching bags on campus, isn\u2019t dissuading the University of Wisconsin Law School from inculcating students in the dogma of diversity, equity and inclusion.<\/p>\n

UW Law required first-year students to\u00a0participate in a \u201creorientation\u201d Friday<\/a>\u00a0that catechized the same ideologies that prompted doctor and House Appropriations Committee member Rep. Andy Harris to\u00a0float federal funding cuts to medical schools<\/a>\u00a0that force DEI upon students.<\/p>\n

The Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty\u00a0hinted Thursday it would sue UW Law<\/a>\u00a0for \u201cpushing racist ideology on law students\u201d if it went through with the mandatory training.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt would be one thing if the law school proposed an academic debate about such matters,\u201d WILL said, but the \u201cbroader implications\u201d of the Supreme Court\u2019s ruling last year against racial preferences in college admissions means the training violates federal law, creates \u201ca racially hostile environment\u201d and harms \u201cindividual student dignity.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are still reviewing our options,\u201d associate counsel and UW Law graduate Skylar Croy told\u00a0Just the News<\/em>\u00a0when asked Tuesday whether a suit was forthcoming. But he also pointed out WILL has repeatedly sued the Biden administration \u201cto promote true equality for all and end race-based discrimination.\u201d The SCOTUS ruling \u201chas opened a new legal landscape that we are taking full advantage of.\u201d<\/p>\n

After more than a year in court, anti-woke medical advocacy group\u00a0Do No Harm dismissed its lawsuit<\/a>\u00a0against a prominent peer-reviewed academic journal for a \u201chealth equity fellowship\u201d that did not explicitly include whites, with the latter claiming whites were never excluded in practice.<\/p>\n

Harris, a Maryland Republican, on the\u00a0\u201cJohn Solomon Reports\u201d<\/em>\u00a0podcast Monday<\/a>\u00a0suggested legislation in response to his alma mater and former employer, Johns Hopkins University Medical School, refusing to punish Chief Diversity Officer Sherita Hill Golden for an\u00a0official email demeaning a wide range of groups as \u201cprivileged,\u201d<\/a>\u00a0including whites, males, Christians and heterosexuals.<\/p>\n

The school said Jan. 11 that Golden\u2019s language \u201ccontradicts\u201d its values but emphasized she \u201chas sincerely acknowledged this mistake and retracted the language used in the message.\u201d<\/p>\n

Golden issued her own apology that called her privilege definition \u201coverly simplistic and poorly worded [\u2026] exclusionary and hurtful to members of our community.\u201d<\/p>\n

Johns Hopkins Med, which is located in majority-black Baltimore, didn\u2019t answer\u00a0Just the News\u00a0<\/em>queries on how it would have treated an administrator\u2019s comments deeming blacks privileged.\u00a0Do No Harm sent a billboard truck<\/a>\u00a0to campus deeming Golden\u2019s comments \u201cracism\u201d and is demanding her department\u2019s closure.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not the university\u2019s first time distancing itself from a definition that went viral.\u00a0Johns Hopkins removed its LGBTQ glossary<\/a>\u00a0last year after heavy criticism for defining \u201clesbian\u201d as a \u201cnon-man attracted to non-men\u201d so as to include nonbinary women.<\/p>\n

UW Law Assistant Dean for Student Affairs Lauren Devine preceded the mandatory training for first-year students by emailing them documents on\u00a0\u201c28 common racist attitudes and behaviors<\/a>\u00a0that indicate a detour or wrong turn into white guilt, denial or defensiveness,\u201d and a\u00a0\u201crace timeline worksheet\u201d<\/a>\u00a0they must fill out with at least seven \u201csignificant life events around race.\u201d<\/p>\n

The list of 28 includes: character is more important than color, \u201cblack power is dangerous,\u201d it\u2019s enough to teach children that \u201cracism is wrong,\u201d America has eradicated \u201creal racism\u201d in the law, asking to be told when something is racist, and non-indigenous people experiencing spiritual enlightenment at \u201ca sweat lodge.\u201d It claims that whites can never overcome \u201cracist conditioning.\u201d<\/p>\n

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U of Wisconsin Law School is requiring 1L students to attend a DEI training.<\/p>\n

The reading is directed only at whites and says colorblindness, individualism, arguments against affirmative action, and distancing oneself from white supremacists are \u201cracist attitudes and behaviors.\u201d pic.twitter.com\/oknE3SgRvD<\/a><\/p>\n

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An anonymous student told WILL that programs like these \u201cmake me feel as if I cannot speak openly in my classes, nor with my peers\u201d and shames the student for \u201cnot choos[ing] my friends by the color of their skin.\u201d<\/p>\n

UW Law told Alan Rozenshtein<\/a>, a University of Minnesota law professor and senior editor at Lawfare, that the training was a \u201cpartial fulfillment\u201d of\u00a0American Bar Association Standard 303<\/a>, which requires education on \u201cbias, cross-cultural competency, and racism\u201d to first-years and \u201cat least once again before graduation.\u201d\u00a0National Jurist<\/a>\u00a0said those conditions were added in 2022.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe session was interactive, with ample opportunities for students to engage in dialogue with each other,\u201d and UW Law did \u201cnot expect students to automatically accept the views\u201d they were shown, it said. Rozenshtein called its statement booing character over color \u201cjarring\u201d so soon after Martin Luther King Jr. Day.<\/p>\n

ABA told\u00a0Just the News<\/em>\u00a0that 303 \u201cdoes not specify what that [education] should look like,\u201d pointing to its\u00a0\u201cinterpretations\u201d<\/a>\u00a0document. The requirement can be met by orientation sessions, lectures, courses and \u201cother educational experiences\u201d but it must convey \u201ctheir obligation as future lawyers to work to eliminate racism in the legal profession.\u201d<\/p>\n

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