From the pages of the Washington Free Beacon comes a disturbing story about the Duke Law Journal. The elite university hosts an annual competition to select its new editors.
Students are supposed to be chosen based on their grades, case notes and a 12-page personal memorandum.
However, the Beacon discovered there was something else at play for minority students.
A packet prepared for affinity groups within the law school instructed minority students to highlight their race and gender as part of their personal statements. Doing so would earn them extra points.
The packets were part of the law school’s efforts to promote diverse voices and highlight underrepresented groups. White applicants were not afforded the same opportunities.
The packet, obtained exclusively by the Washington Free Beacon, included the rubric used to evaluate the personal statements. Applicants can earn up to 10 points for explaining how their “membership in an underrepresented group” will “lend itself to … promoting diverse voices,” and an additional 3-5 points if they “hold a leadership position in an affinity group.”
To drive home the point, the packet included four examples of personal statements that had gotten students on the law review. Three of those statements referenced race in the first sentence, with one student boasting that, “[a]s an Asian-American woman and a daughter of immigrants, I am afforded with different perspectives, experiences, and privileges.”
A fourth student waited until the last paragraph to disclose that she was “a Middle Eastern Jewish woman,” an “intersectional identity” she said would “prove useful” in a “collaborative environment.”
Would you be surprised to discover that the journal’s editor in chief has an undergraduate degree in gender and sexuality studies? Or that before arriving at Duke, she worked as a diversity consultant for an inclusion design group?
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The Supreme Court banned affirmative action in 2023 and it appears that Duke Law School is clearly breaking the law. And they are also discriminating against white students.
And Duke is not the only school facing such allegations. The Michigan Law Review was sued last week for discriminating against white applicants. And the Harvard Law Review is facing three federal investigations.
Northwestern University’s law school was sued last year over accusations they discriminated against white men.
“For decades, left-wing faculty and administrators have been thumbing their noses at federal anti-discrimination statutes and openly discriminating on account of race and sex when appointing professors,” the complaint says. “They do this by hiring women and racial minorities with mediocre and undistinguished records over white men who have better credentials, better scholarship and better teaching ability.”
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