Comments by "L.W. Paradis" (@l.w.paradis2108) on "Robby Soave: Yale Law School Official FINALLY Told Offended Liberal Student Protesters To “Grow Up!”" video.

  1. These are not high school seniors. Nor college students. They are at YALE Law School. They have no place there.
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  2.  @Lorne.Mccuaig  So . . . These students had the opportunity to ask incisive questions of the Federalist Society lawyer and trounce her. Instead of preparing, they did THIS? Give me a break.
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  3.  @todddyer6059  It's also the place to air a variety of views, and defeat the ones you disagree with by preparing and debating them.
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  4.  @todddyer6059  No. The First Amendment admits of time/place/manner restrictions, not content restrictions. As long as they had a question period that was long enough to drive their point home, they had no reason to interrupt the proceedings. None. This was LAZY.
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  5.  @ssllsg9439  You just caused me harm. I feel very unsafe.
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  6.  @dlg5485  So . . . These students had the opportunity to ask questions of the Federalist Society lawyer. Instead of preparing, they did THIS? The First Amendment admits of content-neutral time place manner restrictions, and law students know that. If these students had ample time during the question period to drive their point home and trounce the right-wing lawyer -- and hold up their placards silently, why not? -- then there was nothing for them to protest. Sorry. How is it that no one knows this? The Supreme Court has dealt with it many times.
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  7.  @kekwayblaze3176  So do it the right way -- with devastating questions after the main presentation. If questions are forbidden, or curtailed, then protest big time.
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  8.  @Nick23at63  I understood you. Some people didn't? Weird.
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  9.  @Lorne.Mccuaig  So . . . These students had the opportunity to ask questions of the Federalist Society lawyer. Instead of preparing, they did THIS? The First Amendment admits of content-neutral time, place, manner restrictions on free speech. If these students had ample time during the question period to drive their point home --- and yes, silently holding placards in support of LGBTQ rights at that time is fine as well, why not --- then they had nothing to complain about.
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  10.  @ssllsg9439  Nowhere does it say that. No court says that.
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  11.  @todddyer6059  I agree that college is a business, nothing more, and the private workplace does not grant anyone full freedom of speech. The ones with the most money in that room had the "right," or in any case the power, to call the tune. I doubt the demonstrators were the richest. Yale has a BIG foundation. But if they face no discipline, then we know how much money their parents gave to Yale. Thanks for exposing the truth.
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  12.  @todddyer6059  Time/place/manner means you can't heckle someone and threaten them where they were invited to speak. You can demand a question and answer period, an alternate forum for your preferred speakers, a campus-wide teach-in to thrash out the general issue of inviting dubious speakers to speak on campus, etc. Do you think free speech is mob rule? But all of that rests on principles. We know it's only about money.
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  13.  @foxdoe7540  All the more reason not to let them get away with failing to practice self-mastery. They need the practice for sure.
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  14. Time for expulsion.
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  15.  @scottmcloughlin4371  🤣 you got it
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  16.  @Apoc447  Russia doesn't want them! See the Oliver Stone interview of Putin, and his view of Snowden.
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  17. @John Martin Yale law students who don't know First Amendment law? Seriously! Of course you're right.
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  18. So . . . These students had the opportunity to ask questions of the Federalist Society lawyer. Instead of preparing, they did THIS. Give me a break. They want money for nothing. Their ideal is Wall Street, or better yet, some bogus tech startup.
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  19. Even National Lawyers' Guild has, on rare occasion, taken the same position as a right-wing group on an exceptionally grave issue of civil rights, usually where the incarcerated are concerned.
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  20.  @H0kieJoe  I support due process, unlike these infantile brats.
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  21. They had TWO speakers with totally different politics to address them. What happened to working hard to prepare incisive questions of the right-wing one, to trounce her? Yalies can't do that??
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  22. So . . . These students had the opportunity to ask questions of the Federalist Society lawyer. Instead of preparing, they did THIS. Give me a break. They want money for nothing. Their ideal is Wall Street, or better yet, some bogus tech startup.
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  23. They learned valid time place manner restrictions on speech in Constitutional Law class, trust me.
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  24. Expulsion is the answer.
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  25.  @othiq1077  Yes and no.
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  26.  @artmosley3337  RBG was incredibly hard working, to the point of harming her health. Few, few people in law have ever worked as hard as she. You know she and Scalia became close and he escorted her to the opera after she was widowed, correct? She was much harder working than Scalia. He admired her for that reason.
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  27.  @todddyer6059  You obviously don't know those lawyers' backgrounds. Why do you begin your comment with complete speculation?
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  28.  @todddyer6059  Kristen Miller is an NYU Law School grad. I'll check the other one for you.
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  29.  @todddyer6059  I got the name wrong. These two speakers are litigators, and neither went to an Ivy League law school. They went to less prestigious law schools and then tried cases. One of them (at least one) argued befor the Supreme Court.
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  30. Spurious quote. Figures. You should read the Socratic dialogues. Great stuff.
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