Young Fallen Cow
From Gawker article, Meet Stephanie Grace, the Harvard Law Student Who Started a Racist Email War:
Stephanie Grace knows she shot herself in the foot . . .
. . . Which was the bigger mistake: thinking this audience wouldn’t take offense, or thinking they wouldn’t be cutthroat enough to take her down? Someone forwarded the email to Harvard’s Black Law Students Association, and the email made its way to Black Law Students Associations’ email lists nationwide. Then legal blog Above the Law printed the email with her name redacted. As comment moderators fought to keep her name off their site, Stephanie apparently navigated to Facebook and began scrubbing herself from the internet, presumably to minimize how closely the imbroglio would be tied to her name, face, and reputation . . .
. . . Stephanie graduated from Princeton in 2007 with a degree in—wait for it—sociology. She’s on the Harvard Law Review and, after graduation, she’ll head to California for a plum federal clerkship with Ninth Circuit Judge Alex Kozinski, the titillating defender of free speech who had to recuse himself from an obscenity case when his cache of cow porn pictures came to light.So happy trails, Stephanie Grace, and when you have a chance, could you please answer: What is the innate intelligence of a half-black, half-white female, naked on all fours mooing like a cow? Judge Kozinski wants to know
From Above the Law:
. . . After that, the email went viral, apparently circulating to BLSAs across the country. There are now plans to try to go after DNA’s clerkship . . .
. . . Will Scharf, president of the Harvard Federalist Society, issued this statement to ATL:
“I can categorically and unequivocally deny that the comments in question were uttered at any official Federalist Society dinner. The only dinner our chapter held this semester was our annual banquet on April 9th, at which the 3L in question was not present.
Moreover, the 3L responsible for the comments and e-mail at issue is not currently nor has ever been an active member of the Harvard Federalist Society. [This 3L] has never been eligible to vote in our elections, has never attended our national convention or student symposium, and has never applied for a board position. I do not know how our chapter ended up as part of this story, but we, to be blunt, have absolutely nothing to do with this.”
Ed
Tags: Crowd Sourcing, Education, Society
May 2nd, 2010 at 5:44 pm
Funnily enough Judge Richard Posner still gets invited to speak at Harvard.
“In Public Intellectuals: A Study of Decline,” Posner defended Charles Murray and Harvard’s Richard Herrstein, authors of “The Bell Curve,” writing that their discussion of race and IQ was, at worst, a “rhetorical mistake.” There ought to be nothing controversial, Posner continued, about the propositions that 1) a black-white IQ gap exists and 2) it has genetic as well as sociological roots.”
http://abovethelaw.com
Also, Harvard Psychology Professor Steven Pinker in his Edge Essay notes that “Groups of people may differ genetically in their average talents and temperaments”.
http://www.edge.org/q2006/q06_3.html