Stanford University’s ‘Soviet Levels of Indoctrination.’

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With 15,750 administrators for 16, 973 students Stanford has devolved into a public works program for well-paid charlatans supervising intellectual hooligans whose long journey up the Everest of comprehension is now supervised by the spawn of the spawn of the 1960s Marxist professoriate. Parents should demand a refund and all federal funding should be withdrawn. Read on:

What Happened to Stanford?

The list of serial embarrassments at Stanford reads like the suicides of Greek tragedy, where divine nemesis follows hubris.

Stanford was once one of the world’s great universities. It birthed Silicon Valley in its prime. And along with its nearby twin and rival, UC Berkeley, its brilliant researchers, and teachers helped fuel the mid-20th-century California miracle.

That was then. But like the descent of California, now something has gone terribly wrong with the university.

Students at Stanford Law School recently shouted down visiting Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Kyle Duncan. He had been invited to give a lecture by the school’s Federalist Society.

The judge never even got the chance. The law school students drowned him out. They flashed obscene placards. They screamed that he was “scum.” One yelled he hoped the judge’s own daughters would be raped.

Others bellowed, “You’re not welcome here, we hate you!” “Leave and never come back!” “We hate FedSoc [Federal Society] students, f–k them, they don’t belong here either!” and “We do not respect you and you have no right to speak here! This is our jurisdiction!”

When the judge tried to reply, they drowned him out with “liar” and “scumbag.” Then, mission accomplished, they smugly stomped out.

Note these were ostensibly not teenaged undergraduates. Instead, they were wannabe adult professionals, in law school to learn jurisprudence and to enter the elite American legal system that is supposed to have protocols separating it from the mobocracies prevailing abroad

One of those foundational principles is to honor the Constitution’s protection of free speech and expression—not to mention the ancient idea of respecting an invited guest, or the custom to treat with deference a federal judge, to say nothing of the duty to honor the codes and laws of the institution that they have chosen to join which prohibit disruption of lectures and any effort to drive out public speakers.

When an exasperated Justice Duncan called out for a university administrator to restore calm, his podium was instead hijacked by Associate Dean for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Tirien Steinbach. She then gave her own preplanned, scripted lecture that sided with the disruptive protesters! Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?

The diversity dean then turned on the speaker. She asked the startled judge whether it was even worth supporting his free speech rights, given he and his views were deemed abhorrent to the new absolutist Stanford.

Note well: DEI Deans normally do not attend law school lectures. She showed up because she apparently knew in advance that the law students would violate their own university’s codes of conduct and disrupt a speaker.

So she had planned, again in advance, to do nothing to stop them. Instead, she would prepare a performance-art speech for such a certainty, to chastise the speaker and defend the disrupters. She assumed correctly that none of the other administrators, who also strangely attended, would admonish her or the students for violating the laws of their own university. She apparently assumed, once more rightly, that her own leftist fides on campus would be enhanced.

So far neither the diversity dean nor the students have been disciplined by the university. When the dean of the law school, Jenny Martinez, offered an apology (but did not punish the students), most of her own class walked out on her. And dozens of Stanford’s law school students lined the corridor in attempts to intimidate her as if she was some sort of toxic pariah.

In a Soviet-style finale, the Acting Associate Dean of Students Jeanne Merino advised the Federalist Society students who were targeted by fellow law students that there were “resources that you can use right now to support your safety and mental health.” Then Merino directed them, inter alia, to none other than Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Dean Tirien Steinbach herself, the very dean who had taken over the podium to lecture Judge Duncan!

The debacle revealed four disturbing characteristics about the Stanford law students: One, they acted as if they were bullies and cowards. Videos of the mess showed how they turned mob-like in their chanting, flashing creepy placards, and, like Maoists, walking out on cue. Yet, when the judge fired back at their rudeness, like wounded fawns they took offense and pouted. And later, when there was mention that the names or photos of the protestors might be published, tit-for-tat, in the manner they themselves had put up posters of the Federalist Society members, they screamed that such exposure was unfair.

Two, they seem incompetent. To the degree there were any questions and answers, few knew how or even attempted to engage the judge on matters of the law and judicial theory. In other words, any grammar-school students could have matched their performance since it required no knowledge of the law, just an ability to chant and—in groupthink style—cry, scream, and mimic the majority.

Three, they were arrogant. One protestor blurted out that Justice Duncan probably could not have gotten into Stanford, as if their own puerile performance was proof of the school’s high standards of admission. That was obnoxious in addition to the fact that, as of recently, it may have become not so true. In July 2022, Stanford Law School announced that an uncharacteristic 14 percent of its graduates had flunked the California bar exam on their first attempt, a radical increase from past years. Four other California law schools—UC Berkeley, UCLA, UC Irvine, and USC—had a higher bar pass rate.

After watching the sad performance, one wonders who taught such rude and unimpressive people.

Ethics complaints were lodged last year against Stanford Law Professor Michele Dauber for tweeting a series of gross attacks on Camille Vasquez (“some Pick Me Girl lawyer”), the widely regarded attorney of Johnny Depp. Law professor Dauber also tweeted sick fantasies about Depp’s death—and imagined the actor’s corpse would “end up in a trash can eaten by rats.” Was she the sort of model that the law students had emulated?

Then there was Professor Pamela Karla’s 2019 testimony before the House Judiciary Committee’s hearing on the impeachment of President Trump. Off-topic and gratuitously, Karla weirdly attacked the name of the president’s youngest son, Barron Trump: “While the president can name his son Barron, he can’t make him a baron.” Was that the sort of puerility that the law students sought to embrace?

In 2021, a graduating Stanford law student sent the law school student body a bogus call to violence as if it was authored by the school’s small conservative Federalist Society. The fake call to arms read in part: “The Stanford Federalist Society presents: The Originalist Case for Inciting Insurrection . . . Riot information will be emailed the morning of the event . . . ” Was that the sort of smear that the law students learned?

Sam Bankman-Fried, the architect of the $26 billion FTX cryptocurrency meltdown that destroyed the livelihoods of thousands, is the son of two other Stanford Law School professors. Somehow they were involved in the Bankman-Fried family’s acquisition of a $16.4 million vacation home gifted to them from FTX shortly before it imploded.

According to the New York Times, both parent professors were intimately involved in their son’s multibillion-dollar business, either directly or through gifts to one parent’s political donor network:

He [Professor Bankman] and his wife, the Stanford Law professor Barbara Fried, were more than just supportive parents backing their child’s business. Mr. Bankman was a paid FTX employee who traveled frequently to the Bahamas, where the exchange was based. Ms. Fried did not work for the company, but her son was among the donors in a political advocacy network that she orchestrated.

Were these the ethical models that had influenced the law students?

Bankman-Fried is currently out on a $250 million bond and living under bond on the Stanford campus. He is out, in part, because two Stanfordites, former law school dean Larry Kramer and Andreas Paepcke, a Stanford senior research scientist, put up a $500,000 guarantee. Former Stanford student Caroline Ellison, a partner with Sam Bankman-Fried in his various financial collapses, has pled guilty to conspiracy to commit wire fraud, conspiracy to commit commodities fraud, conspiracy to commit securities fraud, and conspiracy to commit money laundering, and is now working with prosecutors.

Perhaps the law school should not be singled out since it simply reflects what appears to be symptomatic of a once-great university’s freefall.

A former Stanford student Elizabeth Holmes was recently sentenced to a long prison term for defrauding investors in connection with her company Theranos. She had fraudulently claimed to have invented a “revolutionary” miniaturized blood testing device. Many of her corporation’s oversight board members were drawn from the Stanford community.

The Wall Street Journal recently ridiculed a Stanford university group’s publication of a taboo vocabulary list (“Elimination of Harmful Language Initiative”). “Harmful” words supposedly unwelcome at Stanford included inflammatory expressions such as “American” and “immigrant.”

The Journal also noted that perhaps the cause of such Orwellianism was too many idle administrators chasing too few students: “For 16,937 students, Stanford lists 2,288 faculty and 15,750 administrative staff.”

More disturbing was the revelation of a “snitch list.” The harmful language initiative apparently is tangential to another new idea of rewarding Stanford snitches who feel offended by hurtful expression. Or, as the so-called “The Protected Identity Harm (PIH) Reporting” system put it, software will monitor campus speech and even offer “financial rewards for finding/reporting” any who supposedly violate approved language usage.

Was this the sort of campus experience that the parents of Stanford students pay for at about $90,000 per year?

Stanford was also plagued by a recent admissions scandal when a former head sailing coach accepted donations to his Stanford sailing program in exchange for trying to help two students’ admission applications.

Then there were campus attacks on a pair of eminent Stanford public health experts, Drs. Scott Atlas and Jay Bhattacharya. Both were pilloried mercilessly by some of the Stanford faculty and administration for daring to doubt the efficacy of what has proved to be disastrous government-enforced COVID quarantines and school shutdowns.

Yet the arguments of Atlas and Bhattacharya—the science does not support the mandatory use of masks to halt the pandemic, natural immunity was as efficacious as or superior to vaccine-induced immunity, the vaccinations would not offer lasting protection against either being infected or infecting someone else, and the quarantine lockdowns would cause more damage and death (familial abuse, suicides, substance abuse, mental depression, uneducated children, economic catastrophe, millions of missed surgeries, screenings, tests, and doctor’s appointments) than the virus itself—were all eventually substantiated.

Neither doctor received apologies from the administrators, faculty, or students who attacked them.

Currently Stanford’s long-serving president Marc Tessier-Lavigne—an accomplished neuroscientist—has been attacked serially by the Stanford Daily campus newspaper, which has called for his resignation. It alleges the president was culpable of scholarly misconduct concerning the publication of a joint research paper decades ago. The charges are not proven and remain under investigation. But they make it difficult for a president to weigh in on the above controversies when some faculty and the student newspaper are serially calling for him to step down for ethics violations

In July 2020, a Stanford visiting neurology researcher, Chen Song, was arrested for not disclosing that she had apparently been an agent of China’s People’s Liberation Army. Stanford had also been investigated by the Department of Education for some $64 million in alleged Chinese-affiliated donations over a decade, all from previously unnamed, unidentified, and anonymous Chinese donors, most of them believed to be government associated.

The list of serial embarrassments reads like the suicides of Greek tragedy, where divine nemesis follows hubris. In this case, overweening intolerant ideology has sabotaged disinterested inquiry and meritocracy. Arrogance and sanctimoniousness lead Stanford to continue down this spiral—rather than pause, reflect, and redirect—and thereby only compound the public ridicule.

Stanford’s once-justified reputation for civility, transparency, tolerance, and professional ethics has been shredded before a global audience.

Given its hallowed history, and the university’s vital global role in cutting-edge research, medicine, and professional training, something has to change—before it is too late.

The university requires an array of compulsory workshops that faculty and many students must undergo. But given these recent debacles, perhaps two additional new training sessions are needed: required ethics instruction and a mandatory anger-management seminar.

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turtlebrat
turtlebrat
1 year ago

The spawn of the 1960’s is so spot on and correct. We could have stopped this commie takeover then as I saw it happening in college where I was removed as a DJ from the college radio station but we let these people disrupt and infiltrate and their spawn are now rampant as the teachers’ unions and most colleges prove. Woke and the dem party are their gifts as well. Why is Jane Fonda still free and never was tried for treason? I am not saying that we belonged in Viet Nam but we were at war and she gave aid and comfort to the enemy. Don’t send any of your kids to these schools there are better conservative ones and understand that these brainwashed barbarian robots really are the enemy and their indoctrination centers must be de-funded of any federal money and defeated as ways must be found to shut them down. When Nikita K. said he would bury us he was not kidding.

Keith1941D
Keith1941
1 year ago
Reply to  turtlebrat

Yep…..At that time, the 60’s, I wondered how it would be when the hippie maggots took over, now we know.

From a Remote Location
From a Remote Location
1 year ago

As for those Stanford students, if they’re that indoctrinated, radicalized and intolerant, they should NEVER, EVER even be allowed near a voting booth, let alone any law job. Things like this underscore why there should have been a concerted campaign to RAISE the minimum voting age to up to 30. Allowing someone that indoctrinated to be hateful of America, to vote, is frankly no different from allowing someone to drink and then drive.

Keith1941D
Keith1941
1 year ago

The dems will figure out a way for them to vote without getting near a voting booth…like 2020.

T D
T D
1 year ago

Sue them. then sue them again. Sue the college, & the bullying students individually.
Expose them on social media, youtube, etc.

You don’t have to win, only disrupt their comfortable schedules. Bog them down in legal procedings. peaceful protests on campus against cancel culture. Make it their legal Vietnam.

Cancel Culture is a social epidemic. time to cancel it.

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T D
T D
1 year ago
Reply to  T D

Mr. Musk should create a new ACLU, since the actual ACLU no longer cares about civil liberties.

I nominate as founding members:
Elon Musk – Tech CEO
Alan Dershowitz – Civil Libertarian Lawyer, Defender of Israel.

Ayan Hirsi Ali – anti-Islamist activist, and women’s rights activist

Matt Taibbi – Journalist

What should they call it?
Civil Liberties of America?

Jay
Jay
1 year ago

It’s fair to say Stanford University, where my maternal grandparents met, is now run (into the ground) by demented cult marxist powermongers.

Don39D
Don39
1 year ago
Reply to  Jay

The rest of the IVY LEAGUE IS LITTLE OR NO BETTER!

Snowedin
Snowedin
1 year ago

One of the most expensive schools of Indoctrination. Stanford went down hill quickly. At one time it used to be an excellent school.

Don39D
Don39
1 year ago
Reply to  Snowedin

And how do you explain the state of the nation when a significant part of the political and governing class came out of Stanford and other schools just like it.

Don39D
Don39
1 year ago
Reply to  Don39

Even the military acadimies are helping to destroy this nation!

Don39D
Don39
1 year ago

Center of this nations leftist destruction and the destruction of the rule of law!

Albert Barchichat
Albert Barchichat
1 year ago

Now i know why Trump likes the “uneducated”, they’re not brainwashed like these students and are capable of free thinking

PatriotlizD
Patriotliz
1 year ago

This is the long march of Communism through our institutions which has been a success.
Wake up and smell the Communist Cultural Revolution.
But Conservatives are afraid to call them out as Communists or Fascists. Instead they always pull their punches and instead it’s always a polite “like”…as in “like Soviet Style,” Orwellian, Maoists, Bolsheviks, etc. when these Democrats, previously known as “liberals,” suppress free speech and indoctrinate with their anti-American propaganda. Progressive Socialism, Wokeism and Cancel Culture is Communism. DEI, ESG, CRT, Gender theory and Green energy boondoggles are Communist subversive plots to economically and culturally destroy America from within. These Universities are bought off by Chinese money as is this Biden administration. They are the de facto 5th column for the CCP.

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Keith1941D
Keith1941
1 year ago

“Open Debate” in our colleges? Surely you jest….

Gil
Gil
1 year ago

As an engineering graduate of Stanford, I long ago, removed all evidence of that fact and as a indication of my disdain I sit at my desk on a Stanford t-shirt to show that they are close to an appropriate part of my body! I never admit that I went there even though when I did the engineering department was non-political and the result was good for me.

jerry
jerry
1 year ago

All of the high strangeness, hate, disention , corruption and insanity of today. Sense can only be made of these thing’s in light of being “Bitch Slapped” by Heussein Obama’s control of Joe Biden and his total corruption of our society to advance Islams march towards world domination!

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