The UCLA School of Law Race Hoaxes

 

 

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Published on Feb 10, 2014 by RecordtoCapture.

“On February 10, 2014 a group of students from the UCLA school of Law gathered together to raise awareness of the disturbing emotional toll placed upon students of color due to their alarmingly low representation within the student body.”
 

By Nicholas Stix

In 1996, California citizens voted for Prop. 209, which made racial, ethnic, and sexual discrimination, aka affirmative action, illegal in all state agencies, thus including the state’s three college systems, the University of California (UC), the California State University (CSU), and California Community College (CCC) systems.

No one seems to care about the CSU and CCC system, but they do care about the top-of-the-line UC system, which was being destroyed by racism on the behalf of unqualified, viciously racist, black and Hispanic applicants, and against qualified, talented white and Asian applicants. However, criminal administrators have broken the law ever since it was made part of the California State Constitution, through scams such as the euphemistically named “holistic” admissions process. In higher ed, “holistic” is always a euphemism for criminal fraud.

Thus, UC campuses have been illegally admitting unqualified blacks, but not as many as they would like to. Meanwhile, the unqualified, racist black AA admits have been committing race hoaxes on a regular basis, some of which entail simply screaming “racism!” in a crowded theater.

E.g., black UCLA law students have a murderous hatred for a brilliant law professor named Richard Sander, because he opposes race-based AA, and has exposed it at UCLA. Some of Sander’s students formed a softball team, which they called, unsurprisingly, “Team Sander,” and wore jerseys saying that. Some black students raged that the shirts were part of some sort of racist conspiracy. Apparently, anyone whom the racist black students hate must be shunned, and turned unto a pariah.

Above the Law is a Gawker-style, leftwing blog, with intellectually shallow, dishonest writers, above all, Elie Mystal, which promotes racial terror and hoaxes in America’s racial socialist law schools. Mystal, for instance, enthusiastically promoted the Sander Hoax.

The racist black AA admits have posted videos at youtube and “courageously” spoken out at UCLA about the “hostile, racist campus climate.” They are engaged in the purest of projections: To the degree that a “hostile, racist campus climate” exists, it is entirely their doing.

They tear down their own posters, and put racist notes in their own mailboxes and then decry these acts of “racism.” You know the drill. Racial socialist administrators then mindlessly support the hoaxers, as if the former had just fallen off a turnip truck.

One of Above the Law’s editorial triumvirate, David Lat, once seemed to have some integrity, but has apparently been cured of that.

You won’t learn much from ATL’s dishonest articles, but the commenters are both informative and hilarious, and so I have posted numerous comments after the story.

By the way, when an ATL commenter writes “raceist,” that’s not an expression of illiteracy, but of mockery.
 

Racism Abounds At UCLA School of Law
By Elie Mystal
Above the Law
155 Comments
February 24, 2014 at 6:18 P.M.

UCLA SCHOOL OF LAW — DEAN RACHEL F. MORAN — MEMORANDUM — RESPECT FOR POSTED MATERIALS

Dear Students,

It has come to my attention that some individuals may be removing properly posted informational flyers from our bulletin boards.

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I am writing to remind you that UCLA School of Law is dedicated to providing an engaging intellectual environment that is respectful and welcoming to all. All material posted on the bulletin boards in our hallways is there to inform our students and the greater community about the important events and activities taking place on this campus. The content of these displays should be respected at all times. Tampering with this material will not be tolerated.

We are an esteemed law school, training the professional leaders of the future. I expect all members of our community to conduct themselves as professionals in this environment, respecting each other and working together to maintain our valued quality of life at UCLA School of Law.

Sincerely,

Rachel F. Moran
Dean and Michael J. Connell Distinguished Professor of Law
UCLA School of Law
 

UCLA SCHOOL OF LAW — DEAN RACHEL F. MORAN — MEMORANDUM — AN INCIDENCE OF INTOLERANCE AND A CALL FOR CIVILITY

Dear Students,

It has come to my attention that a disgusting and hateful note was placed in the mailbox of one of our students at the Law School. I am appalled, deeply disappointed, and profoundly pained that a member of our community would be subjected to such an abusive and cruel act.

I want to make very clear that this behavior is completely unacceptable and will not be tolerated at UCLA School of Law. A UCLA police investigation is underway, and any student found to have participated in harassment or abuse of any other individual in violation of the UCLA Student Code of Conduct will be subject to University disciplinary proceedings.

Norms of tolerance and civility define us as a community; the breach of those norms is an injury not just to one but to all. Please remember that the way you conduct yourself toward others will define you not just as a professional but as a human being.

I am currently working together with my administration to schedule a safe opportunity for all interested students to join with us in constructive and respectful dialogue on this crucial matter, and will be relaying details shortly. I am also exploring additional options to respond to this incident and to what has become a very charged and tense environment for many of our students. UCLA should be a place of learning, engagement, and professional and personal growth, not one of ugliness, disrespect and intolerance. I am deeply committed to improving and restoring an atmosphere of collegiality, tolerance and respect.

Sincerely,

Rachel F. Moran
Dean and Michael J. Connell Distinguished Professor of Law
UCLA School of Law
 

UCLA — CHANCELLOR GENE BLOCK — THE IMPACT OF PROPOSITION 209 AND OUR DUTY TO OUR STUDENTS

Nearly a generation has passed since Californians voted to end affirmative action in admission to public colleges and universities and today we have suffered for it.
With each passing year campuses all across our state – and, increasingly, the nation as copycat laws are passed – fail to accurately reflect the growing diversity in our communities. Too often, many of our [unqualified, illegally admitted] students of color feel isolated, as strangers in their own house. Others feel targeted – mocked or marginalized, rather than recognized and valued.

At UCLA, our [white and Asian] students are bold, confident and among the sharpest anywhere. We are proud every time we hear them convey their thoughts, experiences and feelings – as they have done recently in several now viral videos and by organizing town halls and rallies.

[He is praising racist, lying, black AA admits who have committed and/or promoted race hoaxes, and who have produced videos and held rallies decrying what they call a “racist climate” at UCLA Law. The only racist climate at UCLA Law is one these black supremacists and their non-black allies have created, against normal white students. Black hoaxers tore down their own posters, and sent themselves “racist” notes.]

Anyone still unconvinced by the true impacts of Proposition 209 simply need only listen to their powerful first-hand accounts. Their [lies] words, of course, are much bigger than UCLA – and it’s not surprising that they’ve found a national audience. We need only to look at the remarkable and numerous accomplishments of pre-209 alumni from now underrepresented groups at UCLA to fully recognize the disservice we do to California and our nation when these talented and deserving students are too often absent from our Bruin family.

[If they were really talented, UCLA Chancellor Gene Block wouldn’t have to cheat, in order to admit them. Indeed, he was already breaking the law, in order to admit the hoaxers, who were all admitted via illegal affirmative action.

Block gives no argument why merit should be thrown out as an admission standard, and replaced by racial, ethnic, etc. discrimination. Why does he hate talented white and Asian students, and discriminate against them? Why does he think that discriminating in favor of unqualified blacks, Hispanics, and other politically privileged groups is justified? He gives no arguments, only emotionality and special pleading. When he claims that blacks and Hispanics who were admitted due to racial and ethnic discrimination before Prop. 209 was passed had “remarkable and numerous accomplishments” to their credit, keep in mind that they have enjoyed racial and ethnic privileges their entire lives. That the hoaxers have “found a national audience” is due solely to the leftwing politics of newsrooms, who promote every race hoax to come down the pike.]

We’ve tried to address the issues caused by 209, working within the letter of the law. [Liar. He and his comrades have violated the law.] In recent years, UCLA has begun evaluating the full range of each applicant’s academic and personal achievements, within the context of opportunities and challenges each has faced. [That’s straight-up affirmative action talk, in violation of Prop. 209.] And yet we continue to fall far short of the diversity California’s public colleges and universities enjoyed before voters approved Prop 209 in 1996. [Thank God, for that!]

While it’s important to understand the underlying root cause [You mean low black and Hispanic IQ and work ethics?] of many of these issues – a cause some leaders in our state are now looking to reverse – throwing up our hands and hoping in vain that things will get easier is simply insufficient and unacceptable. We must and will continue to search for new and innovative ways to achieve diversity within the confines of the law [liar], but we as Californians must also re-examine flawed policy and find a way to better serve our students. [It’s not a policy, it’s the California State Constitution.]

[Translation: We will continue to search for new and innovative ways to skirt the law.]

We must do more. We have a responsibility to do better.

Today I call upon my colleagues on UCLA’s faculty to re-examine the creation of an undergraduate general education requirement focused on diversity. [Translation: We must force ever more racial socialist lies and intimidation on white and Asian students, and give ever more support to unqualified, illegal, racist, black and Hispanic AA admits.] We are the only UC campus that does not have one. We have no excuses. Let’s make this happen in 2014. While we cannot impact the diversity of our campus to the extent we’d like, we can work to [impoverish] enrich all of our students’ experiences here and better prepare them to live and work in a complex global [bull] environment. [No one works in a global environment. They work in an office or a store.] Our faculty owe it to our students to address curricular changes that can only add to the understanding and appreciation of our Nation’s diversity.

I also want to assure you that our previously promised efforts are well underway.
The Moreno report Implementation Committee chaired by Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost Scott Waugh is fully engaged in this work and will give me a full update at the end of this academic year. With the help of the Implementation Committee, we are also finalizing a job description for the new position of Vice Chancellor for Equity, Diversity and Inclusion and expect to announce the search by the end of next quarter. And we will soon post positions for two diversity prevention officers – going beyond the one position recommended in the Moreno Report – who will report to the new vice chancellor and investigate any reported allegations of racial and ethnic bias or discrimination among our faculty as well as providing education and training.
These are only first steps.

We all know we’re going to confront racism, bigotry, isolation and anger again, like the horribly offensive [hoax] flyer sent to our Asian American Studies Center recently. Try as we might, on our campus or out in the world beyond, they still exist in some forms. What matters is how we respond. At UCLA, at the very least, we must support each other. We must listen to one another.

Make no mistake: [Monologues] Conversations about race can be very difficult. They are inevitably emotional. They can make people defensive. [And if anyone talks back, and refuters or mocks the lies, we’ll destroy him.] They sometimes lead to accusations. But we cannot be afraid to have these conversations, because they are so critically important not just to our university, but to society. And if we cannot have productive discussions about race here, on a campus with the world’s thought leaders and students committed to [a racial socialist dictatorship] knowledge and inquiry, then where?

While we may differ on strategy and ideas at times, we all want a campus that embraces and elevates each of us. And that’s why we must continue talking, debating and looking for solutions.

Most important of all, we must learn to trust one another. I also appreciate that trust is earned and, among our critics, we must and will work harder to earn it.

[When he says “among our critics,” he doesn’t mean real critics, like yours truly, he means the race hoaxers who will complain, no matter how much he submits to them, that it isn’t enough, and that the school is horribly “racist” and unwelcoming.]

-Chancellor Gene Block
 


Ed Platt • 10 months ago
Mr. Mystal, this post is perhaps the most anti-intellectual, and racially polarizing screed you have produced thus far. UCLA bent over backward since the 70's to diversify its student body. I am not in full agreement with their efforts. But to slander them as you have, (even the efforts of decent but lefty professors like Ken Karst, who worked long and hard for affirmative action under a variety of names), is counter-factual and pathetic. You can't even recite the facts accurately: In your racially magnetized world, the needle always points to race. So t-shirts printed for a section softball game --a softball game--and worn to class by some is racial "microaggression." And now the "anonymous" note: for all you know, it was forged to generate more controversy, just as we have seen on several campuses for the last few years. The School has done everything right to deal with this so-called situation. To have a pesteriferous race baiter latch onto the situation is lamentable. You've become a parody of yourself.
 

Guest to Ed Platt • 10 months ago
How dare you suggest that a law student made a fake racism allegation!
-Not Jonathan Perkins [Hate crime hoaxer.]
 

Uh huh to Ed Platt • 10 months ago
Only 34% of people at UCLA are white -- clearly underrepresented. What efforts is UCLA making to increase white applications?
 

RACEISM monitor lizard • 10 months ago
Solution in seven easy steps:
#1: Round up all white UCLA law students
#2: Administer polygraphs
#3: Ask the following: What is your name? Are you RACEIST?
#4: Pay no attention to polygraph results
#5: Expel all who said no to second question
#6: Expel the rest
#7: Bottle rocket explosion in Prof. Sander's ass
P.S. I do not see a MDP post in this thread. MDP, are you ok? Have you suffered an injury? Please someone check
 

My Debtor's Prison to RACEISM monitor lizard • 10 months ago
I'm good. Thanks for asking
 

HTH to Guest • 10 months ago
Also, here is the unedited version of the Dean's e-mail:
"I am writing to remind you that UCLA School of Law is dedicated to providing an engaging intellectual environment that is respectful and welcoming to all (except conservatives). All material posted on the bulletin boards in our hallways is there to inform our students and the greater community about the important events and activities taking place on this campus (unless they're conservative). The content of these displays should be respected at all times (unless it's conservative). Tampering with this material will not be tolerated (unless it's conservative)."
 

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o Uh huh to Commenter_X • 10 months ago
All I know is that BLSA students tearing down their own signs is NOT raceism. How long until we discover that's what happened?
 


gonegalt2 • 10 months ago
"It started with “Team Sander.” In November, we told you that some students at UCLA Law School started wearing T-shirts in support of UCLA law professor Richard Sander, whose scholarship is racially divisive."
I love this nonsensical bit of whimsy. Yes, the guy arguing AGAINST treating college applicants differently based solely on their race is racially divisive. Those who are in favor of racial discrimination are, by implication, supposed to be the unifiers?
 

BhamRedsFan to gonegalt2 • 10 months ago

A brief look at Prof. Sander's CV shows that he appears to be in favor of a broader "class based" form of affirmative action, which would include folks of any gender or color. I simply do not follow how this makes him "divisive" or "racist."
 

• Spiritual Townie • 10 months ago
Here is how this plays out, in list format so JoePa can understand too:
(1) Authorities condemn hurtful and raceist action.
(2) Elie gets raging boner, begins racial diatribe without actual knowledge of the facts of the specific incident.
(3) Authorities launch investigation, vowing to catch the perpetrator(s) aka bad white people. Media storm describes racially hostile environment at school.
(4) Elie continues diatribe railing against the horrors of present-day raceism and uses the incident du jour to further his own warped views of race relations in America.
(5) Facts emerge that suggest the incident might not be what was initially reported.
(6) Elie is a saaaad panda. However, he continues to rant against perceived UCLA raceists and opponents of affirmative action (who must be raceist too).
(7) Authorities determine a black person was responsible for initial raceist behavior.
(8) Unapologetic Elie defends suspect's actions, condemns school for creating an atmosphere that caused a black student to engage in false-flag tactics.
(9) MOAR RACEISM.
 
Christian Adams • 10 months ago
The video contains almost pathological complaints. Let's get this straight, admitting students based on grades and LSAT's instead of skin color = racism? My how the civil rights movement has fallen. Once upon a time, it was about equality and content of character. Now it is about race preferences and moral bankruptcy. The obsession about race portrayed in the story is the sort of rancid behavior that caused the worst human misery in history. The UCLA law students in the video should be ashamed.
 
JoePesci Christian Adams • 10 months ago
As my calculus professor in college used to say "consider this function":
You are assuming that "grades and LSAT's [sic]" are measurements that accurately predict future performance in law school and bar exams. Should we admit people based on what IS an accurate statistical predictor of success--family income and family educational level? And you also assume that the proper measurement for law school admissions are measurements that accurately predict performance in law school and on bar exams. What if college grades or "LSAT's" did *not* accurately preduct grades in law school or success in taking bar exams? Why then, it would be fine to admit people based on skin color, it would be just as random. And what if the proper metrics for admission to law school should in fact be whether you would make the world a better, more diverse place to live, and a better place for the poor and disadvantaged to live? If that is the case, then the emphasis on grades and scores is misplaced entirely. Also, as Nassim Taleb might say: hypothetically, what if law school performance is random like the stock market? If so, then past performance will not be an accurate indicator of future performance. If college grades (like past investing performance) are not positively correlated to law school grades (future investing performance), then we should admit people randomly. But if you are going to admit people randomly, you might as well admit them on the basis of diversity and political views as anything else. Just consider for a moment that everything is random, and we are just constructing stories to tell ourselves about why things are successful or not successful. In that case, trying to make the law school diverse (AA) and ensuring equal outcomes for everybody (grade inflation), is just as valid a goal as admitting people with high GPAs and LSATs with an eye to getting as many people as possible who can pass the bar exam and graduate with good grades.
 
Spiritual Townie to Baakus • 10 months ago
I assume this is a pro troll, but let's point out some flaws in your anti-white rhetoric. Making sweeping generalizations about people based solely on the color of their skin is usually associated with RACEISM. So congratulations on that, I guess.
Also, if white folks cannot pass judgement on the experiences of minority students, isn't the reverse also true? It is hypocritical of you (and also a bullshit argument to begin with) to say that white people can't judge the actions of minorities since they haven't had the same life experiences and then spend several paragraphs decrying the actions of the ubiquitous white man from the perspective of the downtrodden minority. Just say it, you don't want racial equality, you want your cultural values to win.
Speaking of white people, you falsely assume that there is some sort of national and cultural solidarity among all white Americans based solely on skin color. Its a fairly ignorant viewpoint shared by resentful race-baiters who need the "us vs. them" racial narrative to justify their failures and shortcomings. And I have no fucking clue what a Heimdall is.
Finally, it is clear that you have never left the country (or your neighborhood, more than likely), since I've never met any expats who think that they are oppressed minorities abroad. That would sort of defeat the purpose of repatriating to another country.
Other than that, I hope your little race war goes well!
 
• White Shoe Hullabaloo • 10 months ago
Wait, so the students that eagerly took advantage of affirmative action to get into a school like UCLA (because of the "lack of diversity") now cry foul because there actually is a lack of diversity at the school? Umm, that's the point why you were let in.
Did they feel it was unfair to other students if they received any preference in admissions? Now, with blind-grading on LS exams, are they afraid to lose any advantage they previously received (or feel entitled to)?
Maybe other law students are judging because they hate it when people use a class as a soapbox to express their personal political/gender/racial views that have more to do with chastising society than discussing the law. No one wants to pay $50,000/year to hear how you are a special snowflake.
Here in 10 years you're going to have to be a LGBTQ mixed-AA/Latino/NA to get any preference in LS admissions.
 

Ed Platt • 10 months ago
Yes, this will help: "The UCLA Black Law Students Association met with the law school dean Monday about possible ways to improve campus climate for students of color.
Students in the association discussed . . .a petition that they launched on Friday.
The petition, . . .asked the school to create a dean of diversity position, centralize the way that students submit grievances, and require diversity training for first-year law students and professors, . . ."
 

Commenter_X to BhamRedsFan • 10 months ago
Allegations of RACEISM, no matter how silly, unfounded or even consciously disingenuous = page views.
Elie can no more stop posting these than he can stop putting the hurt on Taco Bell.
 

Uh huh to Commenter_X • 10 months ago
All I know is that BLSA students tearing down their own signs is NOT raceism. How long until we discover that's what happened?
 

gonegalt2 • 10 months ago
"It started with “Team Sander.” In November, we told you that some students at UCLA Law School started wearing T-shirts in support of UCLA law professor Richard Sander, whose scholarship is racially divisive."
I love this nonsensical bit of whimsy. Yes, the guy arguing AGAINST treating college applicants differently based solely on their race is racially divisive. Those who are in favor of racial discrimination are, by implication, supposed to be the unifiers?
 
BhamRedsFan to gonegalt2 • 10 months ago
A brief look at Prof. Sander's CV shows that he appears to be in favor of a broader "class based" form of affirmative action, which would include folks of any gender or color. I simply do not follow how this makes him "divisive" or "racist."
 
Brocaine_Brandy to gonegalt2 • 10 months ago
Well, didn't you hear how a recent Powerball winner was from LA, yet didn't donate his winning ticket to Elie? Sounds like a giant LAPD fueled conspiracy to get back at Elie for his completely uncontroversial and sensible support for OJ Simpson in his quest to expose RACEISM and kill innocent white people.
 

Brocaine_Brandy • 10 months ago
TWIST: Further investigation places Elie in LA on the date the note was left, more troubling, several fast food restaurants near the student's mailbox were burgled, authorities now believe the note may have been left in order to give Mr. My$taj something to right about as his Redline withers on the vine.
 
BhamRedsFan to Brocaine_Brandy • 10 months ago
You, sir, appear to be under the influence of an illegal substance.
 
Brocaine_Brandy to BhamRedsFan • 10 months ago
I don't see how that's material to my criticisms of the ATL RACEISM WATCH WALRUS
 


trewth • 10 months ago
An anonymous racist note is left in someone's mailbox, and there are no witnesses? So that's what happened to Johnathan Perkins - he transferred to UCLA.
 

No, You are the privileged one trewth • 10 months ago
The note was a little too on the nose. I suspect that most non-minority and non-CRS students were starting to tune out the complaints about microaggressions and such. It was time to shock everyone, and there's nothing that shocks your average urban white person as much as the n-word. That drives people to sign petitions advocating for diversity officers, changes to the curriculum, etc.
Not saying that Alexis planted the note herself, but I would be very surprised if it was done by a white person. It certainly would not be the first hoax that we've seen on a college campus lately.
 


Trite and Banal to No, You are the privileged one • 10 months ago
Are you really Successful Troll in disguise? Did you truly write that you're not saying that Alexis planted the note herself but that it likely wasn't a white person? HOW CAN YOU POSSIBLY KNOW THAT?!?
Your comment reads as though you're actually saying precisely what you disclaim - i.e., she planted it herself. Or, are you accusing an unnamed and nonspecific Asian student? Or maybe a Latino or Hispanic student? What about a Middle Eastern student? What about an Aboriginal student? Maybe it was the Dean!
 
Uh huh Trite and Banal • 10 months ago
This story bores me; can we talk about the Asian gang rape at UC Santa Barbara instead?
http://www.nydailynews.com/new...
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The Big LeBoesky • 10 months ago
Mr. Mystal,
With all due respect, this post strikes me as another one of your craven attempts to generate clicks under the pretense of advancing some sort of social justice. Let me be very clear about something – white men with money do NOT wish to be represented by 1) blacks, 2) women, 3) “Trans-gender” people of any sort. If we did, then we would pay RuPaul’s tuition to Harvard Law. Does this make us racist? Did 2Live Crew audition any white guys?
 

KamJos The Big LeBoesky • 10 months ago
Hey everybody, look! It's the President of all White men!
 

LittleNinoScalia • 10 months ago
I'm glad I was always #TeamEdward
 

disqus_hAhCSx3yHf • 10 months ago
Big shock. A group, blacks, that have someone want to base everything on actual qualifications starts crying, whining and calling someone racist.
 

Global girl • 10 months ago
Uhh...the issue of racism is undoubtly a real and important issue, but this article seems incredibly one sided and misleading. The writing style almost has a TMZ quality. I'm going to reserve judgment until more info or some kind of response from the other side is available.
 
Brocaine_Brandy Global girl • 10 months ago
Well, while the tmz comparison will warm lats little Filipino soul and tug at his heart strings, tmz may well sue you for libel
 
Ed Platt to Global girl • 10 months ago
No, to be on the side of justice and truth, you have to decide NOW! Hesitating means you are a raceist and raceism denier! Facts are for the bourgeoise!
 

UCLAW 3L Global girl • 10 months ago
 

Brocaine_Brandy • 10 months ago
Elie, how does this compare to that egregious act of raceism by Stanford that was perpetrated against you?
 

Guest • 10 months ago
Couldn't agree more - the dean should really do something, like launch a police investigation into the incident OH WAIT ALREADY DID THAT ELIE YOU'RE THE WORST.
 

UCLAStudent613 • 10 months ago
As a 1L at UCLA, I am in disbelief over how a national web site has the audacity to label a school racist based on three isolated incidents. In a school of 1100 individuals, the fact that one person could have (a) left the note and (b) torn down the BLSA signs is apparently not obvious to the hard-working journalists at your website. Further, if any of your hard working journalists/gossipmongers had bothered to check into the Elevator story, they would have discovered that there is indeed another side to the story. But who needs journalistic ethics? Especially when trashing a school whose reputation in central to its students legal futures?