As Twitchy reported last week, Fifth Circuit appellate judge Kyle Duncan appeared at Stanford Law School and was shouted down by protesters; Duncan later called the event a “bizarre therapy session from hell.” Duncan, you see, is a Trump-appointed judge and a member of the Federalist Society, but even worse: he once refused to use a transgender sex offender’s preferred pronouns in his opinion. When Duncan asked for an administrator to step in and restore order, DEI Dean Tirien Steinbach gave a short speech in which she said that she was “deeply, deeply uncomfortable.”
Jonathan Turley notes that Stanford has sent out an email offering support from Steinbach:
In what may be the most tone deaf response to an academic scandal in history, Stanford is advising students upset by the canceling of a conservative event that they can “reach out” to DEI Dean Tirien Steinbach who condemned the event… https://t.co/qhx0T19pQk
— Jonathan Turley (@JonathanTurley) March 13, 2023
…It is akin to the Oscars telling Chris Rock that Will Smith is available as an emotional support coach. You know what is emotionally therapeutic for those denied free speech? Free speech.
— Jonathan Turley (@JonathanTurley) March 13, 2023
Turley writes:
Federalist Society leaders received an email (that went to all students) from acting Dean of Students Jeanne Merino to stress that traumatized students could seek “safety and mental health” support resources from various individuals, including Dean Steinbach.
As previously discussed, Steinbach shocked many by condemning Judge Kyle Duncan of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit when he tried to speak at the event. Unable to speak, Duncan asked for an administrator to intervene and Steinbach stepped forward.
Steinbach promptly declared that “I had to write something down because I am so uncomfortable up here. And I don’t say that for sympathy, I just say that I am deeply, deeply uncomfortable.”
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The email is also telling in its reflexive assumption that such conflicts are matters for emotional support. After Steinbach condemned Judge Duncan’s effort to speak as causing untold emotional harm to students, Stanford is now moving to deal with the emotional harm from Steinbach’s words … by directing them to Steinbach and others.
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This kind of response actually hurts my brain. I seize up in a “nobody could think this way, but they do think this way” state.
— Pretty Faces and Scary Places (@stewartshouse) March 13, 2023
They hired her. It’s not that large of a community so they know how she is and how she acts. They have no doubt reviewed the tapes. So I have no issue with Stanford letting the world know where they stand.
— Jason Dickson (@TheJasonDickson) March 13, 2023
Steinbach should be let go….THAT is the correct message to send to the student body.
— Ultra MAGA Pounch (@Mas_hoc) March 13, 2023
DEI Dean Tirien Steinbach was in an imaginary position of "Associate Dean for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion" for 17 years. She should lose her job from the once great Stanford University. Oh how the mighty have fallen.
— Diane Drake (@drake_ddrake19) March 13, 2023
This is the direct result of participation awards. Those students should’ve known to shut up and try to learn something rather than screeching like stupid animals.
— Completelywoke (@completelywoke) March 13, 2023
These are tomorrow’s law clerks and this is their idea of “justice.”
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Related:
Stanford Law students subject conservative judge to a ‘bizarre therapy session from hell’ https://t.co/uPYp7mMfkh
— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) March 11, 2023
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