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A University of Florida student won an academic honor after he argued in a school paper that the Constitution applies only to white people. The student also made statements against Jews.

The granting of the award set off months of turmoil on the law school campus.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/21/us/white-supremacist-university-of-florida-paper.html

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[–] [email protected] 117 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Of fucking course it's a Trump appointed judge who taught the class and gave out the reward.

Students need to riot until the reward is rescinded and, preferably, the Judge who taught the class is removed from the position. Make both of those motherfuckers terrified to show their faces on campus. Nazi pieces of shit.

Fuck the weak ass interim dean for trying to defend this on the grounds of "we have to remain neutral. He has the right to free speech". Fuck that "we must tolerate the intolerant" bullshit.

Thankfully, good news, the student was exposed for espousing Nazi rhetoric on Twitter and was subsequently suspended and is barred from campus. He is trying to challenge the suspension which is putting him at risk of expulsion. I fucking hope they throw the book at this Nazi fuck.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I honestly think those people think that dissent is a sign that they are doing what’s right. That’s why they invented the term “social justice warrior,” when in most places that’s just how society works: by holding people accountable.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago (4 children)

I don't really care what they think. If that's the hill they want to die on, then let them fucking die.

The point of dissenting isn't to convince them. It is to stand in their way and say "you're gonna quit this bullshit or we are gonna fucking make you."

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

That’s why they invented the term “social justice warrior,

That term is out of date. They call them "woke mafia" now

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

They do need to keep inventing new bullshit terminology, don’t they?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Make both of those motherfuckers terrified to show their faces on campus. Nazi pieces of shit.

My grandfather died in 1999. He stormed the beaches of Normandy. He never told us in detail what he saw on those beaches. But he often pointed out little things that I took for granted. Little things like how we get to have ice cream if we want because we're not in a police state.

Now, 5 year old me didn't fully know what he meant sometimes, but I always got the sense it was important. As I grew into a teenager he pointed out the items on the shelf at a grocery store. He said "Look at all these cereals. You get your choice, and I get mine. I want raisin bran. What do you want?" At the time reeses puffs were new, and I wanted that. So he said "then you get what you want, I get what I want, and the only thing the cashier cares about is that I have enough cash to cover the bill. Nobody is supressing you, or controlling your life. Nobody is making your decisions for you. You're free to fail, but it's your own doing. THAT'S what I fought for on those beaches. For you. For your mom. For everybody in this country."

I started crying because I was old enough to understand what he was saying. I was at that moment remembering how he lost his best friend that day. How he had to run past his recently fallen corpse and storm the beach. I was crying thinking about how hard he and everybody else that day fought with their lives to protect everybody else. I wasn't even born until 1983. My mom wasn't born until 1947. My grandpa fought so we didn't have to. My grandfather fought to rid this planet of nazis.

If my grandfather were alive today, I know how he'd react. Silent. Gruff grunt. Angry face. Which I know doesn't sound like much, but that's his reaction when he can't stand someone/something.

One time we came home, and there was a shoe sticking out from behind the recliner. He grunts, in that same silent manner, and says to me "Let me show ya somethin, kid!"

He pulls the shoe up, which still had this 20 year old druggie who was now being held upside down by his ankle. My 80 year old grandpa was holding with one hand a druggie and a beer in the other. Says to him "You want to steal from my house? grunt Let me show ya somethin."

And proceeds to beat the shit out him.

That grunt, and especially if he said "let me show ya something!" meant your ass was in trouble.

If he saw the current world, and twitter, I have no doubt he'd go find musk, bring an army if he had to, and tell musk "Let me show ya something, ya little punk!"

Yeah. He'd absolutely gruff grunt at this shit.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

I have some criticisms of how some of the points were made but none that are exactly relevant to the current topic. So, I'll just say that I don't fully agree with what is said here.

Nonetheless, the ending, main point is still in agreement.

[–] fuckwit_mcbumcrumble 48 points 1 week ago
[–] chicken 46 points 1 week ago (5 children)

“It’s just that — neutrality,” she added. “The government — in this case, our public university — stays out of picking sides, so that, through the marketplace of ideas, you can debate and arrive at truth for yourself and for the community.”

Some at the law school agree with her stance. In an interview, John F. Stinneford, a professor at the university, said that it would be “academic misconduct” for a law professor who opposed abortion to give a lower grade to a well-argued paper advocating abortion rights.

This makes sense to me as a principle, but the idea that the paper is genuinely making a good argument seems really questionable.

Among originalists, though, this interpretation [apparently that “We the People,” refers to white people, and therefore the constitution applies to them exclusively] has been widely rejected. Instead, conservatives have argued that much of the text of the Constitution “tilts toward liberty” for all, said Jonathan Gienapp, an associate professor of history and law at Stanford. They also note that the post-Civil War amendments guaranteeing rights to nonwhite people “washed away whatever racial taint” there was in the original document.

Sounds like not even other originalists take it seriously. On its face the idea seems really stupid, since the wording of that part of the constitution doesn't involve race, and whiteness has always been a very loosely defined concept with a lot of ambiguity that wouldn't be a natural fit for a legal principle. So maybe the paper is getting a high grade and an award is itself a display of personal bias.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

It is Florida after all

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

through the marketplace of ideas

Some ideas need to be removed from the marketplace.

[–] chicken 3 points 1 week ago

Ms. Chatman was struck, in part, by her own experiences at the school in contrast to Mr. Damsky’s award. She had proposed teaching a class during her time there called “Race, Entrepreneurship and Inequality.” But administrators at the law school changed the name to “Entrepreneurship,” she said, before listing it in the course catalog.

She attributed the change to Florida lawmakers’ crackdown on diversity-oriented language and themes in public education, a push that preceded the Trump administration’s broader war on progressive ideology.

Sounds like the college agrees, though maybe not about which ones

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[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 week ago (2 children)

In his capstone paper for the class, Mr. Damsky argued that the framers had intended for the phrase “We the People,” in the Constitution’s preamble, to refer exclusively to white people. From there, he argued for the...

I mean, it's an honest start, but then goes on to ignore the progress of history that's occured from that point. Doing so to push a "traditionalist" racist agenda.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

I say these type of traditionalists aren't really living their ideologies until they die at 25, in a cave with no electricity, from a disease that's long since been cured.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

We don't need to be animals. No need to force these delusional souls to live in a cave.

Let them build their own houses. But yes no electricity for them.

After all, if they're pinning for the 1820s they can have it all. Including the mercury enemas to treat every single illness.

But no slaves. Because the North kicked the traitorous South's ass.

[–] CosmicTurtle0 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

If only those framers provided a way to update the Constitution in case things change.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)
[–] 000 15 points 1 week ago

Ah okay. So only white people should pay taxes then, yeah?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago

Preston Damsky is the name of the Nazi.

He is an anti American Nazi advocating for the summary murder of people who are not white.

Preston Damsky is the name of the Nazi.

[–] irelephant 12 points 1 week ago

Florida

ah.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

"I'm not like an ax murderer or anything." No, you're worse. You might face consequences if you kill a couple of racial minorities in that manner. Instead, you're going to try and kill or ruin the lives of all racial minorities in this country. My race, being white people, stole and murdered to get this land. That doesn't make it ours. To pretend that it is, even worse, that it's wrong for people to peacefully come here doing none of the things of our ancestors, is unbelievably wrong. The fact that are grown ass men that haven't developed basic empathy or moral compasses, baffles me.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Trade offs, I suppose. I don't think people should be beholden to what there ancestors did. You can't change the past but you can make the future. Let's be good ancestors.

Being white doesn't make you racist.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Where is the paper?

If this is indeed a high quality legal paper then it'll highlight the weaknesses in the legal foundation of us which enables such positions. If it legally possible, somebody will do it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

That's not how the right views the education system.

Some view it as a source of leftist indoctrination, and this as a rare win for 'their' side, in a sea of socialist brainwashing and woke DEI genocidal messages.

Those individuals will in turn see it as a way to push 'their' ideological culture war messages.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago
[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

@Davriellelouna I've seen this legal framework before. It's called Originalism, and Originalism is voodoo bullshit. It's basically, "Because Washington enslaved people, literally anything that doesn't explicitly say otherwise must mean the same thing." It's pre-determined, self-fulfilling, completion-backwards legal forensics, and I say again, IT IS BULLSHIT.

How do I know? Not just on its own obvious terms, but because the very same people will say the opposite when it suits them. They lie.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

Yeah but if there Jewish suddenly we need to be considerate. Fucking racist pricks.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Every lawyer I've ever interacted with has been a total piece of feces

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I studied law in college. I interned in a high- powered legal defense office. I've met countless lawyers over the years. There are many, MANY wonderful lawyers out there working incredibly hard to better the world and protect disenfranchised people.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

I only said I have never met a lawyer who is a good person. I'm glad you have

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I know a public defender who's pretty good.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (7 children)

The profession tends to select for sociopathy.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

@PattyMcB EVERY one? That seems statistically unlikely. Are you sure there isn't some other relevant factor involved?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

That I've interacted with? YES.

This is my experience. You're a lawyer, aren't you?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

@PattyMcB No, I'm not. But I am a fucking grown up. And apparently, you're not.

There's a saying: If you meet an asshole, then you've met an asshole. If everyone you meet is an asshole, then YOU'RE the asshole.

A lot of people are assholes. A lot of lawyers are assholes. But not ALL lawyers are assholes. But it might seem that way, if you are.

Anyway, I don't imagine you'll ever have anything to say worth reading, so see ya. Hope your life gets better.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Same here, I've yet to meet someone who studied law or business administration who doesn't have some weird energy about them.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

The ones I've met have all been selfish and/or narcissistic

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

I hadn’t heard of Nazi White Supremacist Preston Damsky, but having read this article and his University of Florida paper, it seems like Racist Nazi Preston Damsky has racist nazi white supremacist views which he masks and deflects from in his University of Florida paper in a typical lazy nazi racist white supremacist fashion. It’s shameful that the University of Florida supports this white supremacist racist nazi.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Not surprised by the red run Deregulated Florida Oblast.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago
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