It should be obvious by now that some people are prepared to burn down parts of the U.S. Constitution that they don’t like.
But they shouldn’t be given matches by the University of Florida.
By submitting another class paper stating that the U.S. Constitution’s reference to “we the people” meant only white people, Preston Damsky had already authored a law school paper at UF advocating for the forcible removal of non-white residents from the United States.
Additionally, he argued that it would be a horrible crime to comply with a non-white majority, thus judges along the border should issue shoot-to-kill orders.
Damsky, 29, a student at UF’s Levin College of Law, ended by warning that the horrible cutting of (Justitia’s) sword will occur if the courts fail to fulfill their obligation to restore whiteness to America.
Damsky received the course’s highest honor from the federal judge and the legal clerk who co-taught the course. The administrators of the law school shrugged.
The law school at UF essentially challenged anyone to oppose the award for whitewashing the Constitution at a time when it is more important than ever to ensure clarity of foundational principles.
In response to the criticism, the temporary dean of the law school wrote that the government in this instance, our public university, does not take sides.
As though granting Black people the right to vote were some new legal theory, she said, “Leave it to the marketplace of ideas to slug it out.”
The student-run Independent Florida Alligator and The New York Times discovered that Damsky’s online speech increased following the university’s public endorsement.
He stated that Jews should be eradicated by all means since they were in charge of both President Trump and Secretary of State Marco Rubio.
Trump’s invitation to a Black rapper to the White House, he said, would legitimate the mongrelized ignorance of contemporary Jewish-produced popular culture.
According to the Alligator, Damsky hesitated when asked by a law school professor if he would kill her family simply because they were Jewish.
The nation’s largest concentration of Jewish undergraduate students is found at the University of Florida. Carliss Chatman, a visiting scholar, claims that this is the same UF that would not permit a course with the title Race, Entrepreneurship, and Inequality.
According to her, administrators sanitized it and altered it to Entrepreneurship.
Regarding the First Amendment, the university’s stance on free speech did not include discussing Damsky’s speech.
At a town meeting when the prize was discussed, an Alligator reporter was asked to leave.
Additionally, the school’s claim that it was acting in an institutionally impartial manner is untrue.
It’s a law school here. The core components of the practice of law are judgment and discernment.
It is expected of lawyers to discern between persuasive arguments and self-serving language. If they bring baseless or blatantly deceptive cases, they will be punished.
Both liberals and conservatives commend U.S. District Court Judge John Badalamenti, who co-taught the course and was President Trump’s nominee for the federal bench.
Why Damsky’s thesis appealed to him and the other adjunct lecturer is unknown.
They could scarcely have missed the part of Damsky’s paper that suggested an uprising against non-whites: The People cannot be expected to meekly swallow this demographic assault on their sovereignty, even if they only appreciated clever wordplay concealing noxious arguments in favor of depriving people of their rights.
Although it shouldn’t be, the governor of Florida’s voice is absent from this.
When it came to the protests in Gaza and the accents of international students, Ron DeSantis was desperate to be to the front of the queue and demand crackdowns on academic antisemitism.
But now that a white kid with hard-right immigration talking points is making the vehement appeal to eradicate Jews, where is he?
UF has increased campus security, and Damsky is forbidden from campus and suspended from school.
He should be expelled, the judge and law clerk should stop teaching, and UF should issue an apology to its teachers and students for supporting genocide.
I am not, like, a murderous psychopath. The New York Times received an objection from Damsky.
No, he isn’t. He works as a builder. He is preparing constitutional get-out-of-jail-free arguments for those who choose to participate, building lawyerly explanations for what will happen next, and developing legal cover for those who will light the matches and call it justice.
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