This is going to be a super unpopular take so feel free to let me have it (I won't hold it against you):
I don't know why anyone would expect a bunch of Stanford students to be bowled over by some appointed midwit judge.
Your typical Stanford student, assuming they're not a legacy, is extremely hard-working and bright. Top of their class. Whereas your typical judge is a mediocre lawyer who happened to be a known commodity among oily politicians. The idea that we sneer at our best college students but celebrate mediocre jurists isn't reflective of a meritocratic society.
There's something... interesting about ostensible egalitarians (equitytarians?) saying that someone is worthy of less respect because they went to LSU instead of an elite school like Stanford.
How they acted toward the guest would be inappropriate even if he were an ex-homeless high school dropout. If he's a midwit, embarrass him by asking pointed questions, not by heckling and hurling insults.
Well the point of contention isn't the stances being discussed, but rather that a group of ostensibly top-law intellectuals behaving like a mob of room-temp-iq occupy wallst idiots. All feelz, devoid of thought.
In that video he calmly replies "You're an appalling idiot" to the person calling him* "disgusting". I was more interested in the alleged shouting at civil questions.
*Correction: The student is calling what he's doing disgusting, not the man himself.
> Your typical Stanford student, assuming they're not a legacy, is extremely hard-working and bright. Top of their class. Whereas your typical judge is a mediocre lawyer who happened to be a known commodity among oily politicians.
The typical judge, perhaps, but Duncan [0] graduated summa cum laude [1] from Louisiana State University, which seems to be well regarded, and earned a Master of Laws from Columbia Law School, which is "widely regarded as one of the most prestigious law schools in the world and has always ranked in the top five schools in the United States" [2].
But more pertinent is engineer_22's comment [3] that he was invited to speak by some of those students you think so highly of.
spamizbad|3 years ago
This is going to be a super unpopular take so feel free to let me have it (I won't hold it against you):
I don't know why anyone would expect a bunch of Stanford students to be bowled over by some appointed midwit judge.
Your typical Stanford student, assuming they're not a legacy, is extremely hard-working and bright. Top of their class. Whereas your typical judge is a mediocre lawyer who happened to be a known commodity among oily politicians. The idea that we sneer at our best college students but celebrate mediocre jurists isn't reflective of a meritocratic society.
scarmig|3 years ago
How they acted toward the guest would be inappropriate even if he were an ex-homeless high school dropout. If he's a midwit, embarrass him by asking pointed questions, not by heckling and hurling insults.
pxmpxm|3 years ago
slibhb|3 years ago
You seem to be saying the treatment is justified because the students are smarter than the judge.
engineer_22|3 years ago
nhchris|3 years ago
*Correction: The student is calling what he's doing disgusting, not the man himself.
> Your typical Stanford student, assuming they're not a legacy, is extremely hard-working and bright. Top of their class. Whereas your typical judge is a mediocre lawyer who happened to be a known commodity among oily politicians.
The typical judge, perhaps, but Duncan [0] graduated summa cum laude [1] from Louisiana State University, which seems to be well regarded, and earned a Master of Laws from Columbia Law School, which is "widely regarded as one of the most prestigious law schools in the world and has always ranked in the top five schools in the United States" [2].
But more pertinent is engineer_22's comment [3] that he was invited to speak by some of those students you think so highly of.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyle_Duncan_(judge)
[1] meaning "with highest praise", typically awarded to graduates in the top 1%, 2%, or 5% of their class - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latin_honors#Distinctions
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbia_Law_School
[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35121972