Boston University School of Law Offers Students Therapy Over Recent SCOTUS Rulings
“As a reminder, BU also offers a number of wellness resources that are willing and able to help students navigate these times.”
Students at Boston University’s School of Law are being offered therapy over the recent rulings by the United States Supreme Court. We haven’t seen anything like this since Trump won the 2016 election.
Don’t schools and students find this kind of thing embarrassing? To the fainting couch!
FOX News reports:
Boston University law students offered therapy in response to recent Supreme Court decisions
Boston University School of Law students were offered therapy after three controversial Supreme Court decisions this week about affirmative action, religious freedom and student debt forgiveness.
The BU Law Student Government Association’s (SGA) statement, sent out to law students Friday afternoon, denounced the three Supreme Court decisions of the week: Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard, 303 Creative LLC. v. Elenis and Biden v. Nebraska.
In an email obtained by Fox News Digital, the student board began by lambasting the Supreme Court’s decision in the Students for Fair Admissions case, which declared race-based affirmative action in college admissions is unconstitutional.
“[The assenting judges] went so far as to say that the race-based admission system uses race as a negative and operates it as a stereotype,” the letter stated. “They may couch their opinion in legal jargon, but we all know what this opinion aims to do: advocate for a ‘colorblind’ admission process.”…
“As a reminder, BU also offers a number of wellness resources that are willing and able to help students navigate these times.”
Progressive fragility seems to be a thing.
Angela Onwuachi-Willig, the dean of the BU School of Law, released a statement:
Today, the US Supreme Court issued an opinion that holds that Harvard College and the University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill violated the Equal Protection Clause in their use of race in their admissions processes. To say that we are disappointed by this decision is an understatement. The Court’s substantial narrowing of nearly 50 years of precedent is a grievous step backward, but it will not diminish our longstanding commitment to prepare “a diverse body of students for the ethical practice of law around the globe at the highest levels of quality and integrity.”
This commitment is part of our institutional DNA. More than 150 years ago, the founders of Boston University School of Law (BU Law) broke with this nation’s then widely accepted, but unjust norms of racial segregation to welcome students of all races, genders, and religions. Precisely because of our founders’ commitment to diversity, BU Law has produced an impressive roster of alumni, diverse across many dimensions, who have literally changed the course of history…
We have no intention of rolling the clock backwards vis-à-vis our commitment to equity, diversity, and inclusion.
That last line really gives the game away, doesn’t it?
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Really. Coloring books and crayons, stuffed animals?
Kindergarten again, potty anyone needing a future lawyer from these Cultural Marxist Seminaries
How about uring them to play with their feces? That’s the logical progression.
This has become SOP for Liberla since Clinton left office.
Pretty soon they’ll be talking about the need for therapy for therapists.
Ironic how weak they are until it comes time to gang up on someone.
One would think that somebody in the administration would raise their hand and say, “Hey, maybe this isn’t such a great idea… for the university.”
But no.
They’ve now contributed this new low to America.
Add it to their other stellar contributions such as Howard Stern and the suburban gal from Westchester who is now cosplaying as a member of congress.
Serious question: Has Boston University ever contributed anything real and durable to the citizens of Boston? A pilot program, perhaps, that was so demonstrably effective that the program is now up and running on its own.
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Can you imagine how these headlines are perceived in other countries around the world?
Imagine the job interview for a future B.U. grad —> “Isn’t that the place known as the Bud Light of law schools?”
Apologies to oldschool26 — my comment was intended to stand alone. It was not intended as a reply to you.
They tell you how much they love you and that it is their empathy that causes them to put a boot on your neck.
When visiting a friend in vet school, she showed me basic turkey “psychology”…. she grabbed a wing of a turkey and made it stumble as it walked…. instantly the other turkeys attacked it (shades of “Galaxy Quest miners”.). This flock mentality also describes the Left… but we already knew they were turkeys.
Entitled people are the most dangerous killers – and enraged high-office holders.
Each seeking therapy needs, instead, a kick in the BE-hind, then sent to do some menial job for a low wage in the hot sun somewhere.
The few that come back can then be told this is what faced you before Affirmative action let you – unqualified – into our school. Now, go make the best of it, sink or swim.
Butt hurt salve works just as good as therapy.
I want to see the reaction in December when the boiler gets valved out, drained and the crew walks away. Which therapist will convince the boiler it is actually a cooling tower and needs an advantage?
“Your honor, I call for a mistrial because I am triggered by the prosecution’s assertion,” or the sight of gun evidence, or “I am triggered by the term ‘triggering.'”
I am deeply ashamed of my alma mater, and this is after graduating the likes of AOC as well.
Join the Oberlin club. 🙁
SCOTUS banned racism… leftists hardest hit
Yo know, if we can just keep SCOTUS busy enough turning out these wonderful rulings, we could effectively institutionalize these mental defectives indefinitely, as they deserve to be, thereby keeping them out of the workforce and any interactions with normal human beings..
I am embarrassed for them.
Another example of the country dying.
Yup. Secession is our only hope for a future of freedom and prosperity.
This country has forever been a mixed bag. Good to worry, bad to give up.
Gonna need a new series of questions on the job applications:
1. Have you ever had the vapors from a public policy you disagree with being implemented?
2. Have you ever sought counseling, time off or a suspension of your deadlines due to a judicial ruling you didn’t agree with?
3. Have you ever used the phrase ‘I can’t even…’ (or similar phrase) then simply walked away/fled from an academic/intellectual debate/exercise in which you were confronted with viewpoints you disagreed with?
I think those students who require therapy over any of these rulings should remember that self flagellation is also regarded as a valid way of atoning for the sins of the world. Offering up ones suffering need not involve long talks and scribbled notes.
From the dean, “The Court’s substantial narrowing of nearly 50 years of precedent is a grievous step backward, but it will not diminish our longstanding commitment to prepare “a diverse body of students for the ethical practice of law around the globe at the highest levels of quality and integrity.” ”
So just what is the problem? Why was an AA fiat required? Did the court ruling include the order that they had to reduce the number of black applicants accepted?
If they need therapy now wait until they meet the real world. There are not enough drugs to help them out.
Most frightening is when these infants become judges.
Oh yes there are. And apparently they’re the devil to interdict.
Have a Skittle, Karen.
They’re lucky they’re not at a Canadian law school. They’d be offered MAID instead.
You mean this is NOT the Babylon Bee?
Boston University?
Remind me where AOC went to school again because this would explain alot.
Poor babies. I guess courtrooms will have to include a crying room and a fainting couch in case opposing counsel says something that hurts their feelings.
Who would hire this kind of weakling for a lawyer? When I hire a lawyer, I want a pit bull.
First rule of hiring a lawyer, from someone who knows: The best lawyer is the one who gets you what you want (or at least what you need) without going to court. A “pit bull” is just as likely to screw that up as one who’s too accommodating.
Second rule, and one that I’ve told a two or three of them: “Don’t tell me what I want to hear. Tell me what I need to hear.”
Third rule: You’re hiring not just the lawyer, but that lawyer’s experience. Best $1,200 I ever spent was for a lawyer who wrote one short letter.
Fourth rule: Never had anything to do with B.U.
The $1,200 letter was written by a member of the National Lawyers Guild. I couldn’t have cared less.
My case of the vapors was fixed by CRT (cardiac resynchronization therapy) pacemaker. I am literally shocked to life 60 or so times a minute.
Best $800 I spent was an estate lawyer telling my sisters-in-law that their dad was full of …
FIL forgot that one son-in law had a brother who was both a lawyer and a prick and knew people.
Can anyone imagine fighting WWII with the trash we have now as youth? PTSD BEFORE the battle! I am not a pessimist but I’m beginning to think our country is lost. We are giving up so much that we fought for, in the name of political correctness. We expect no responsibility from anyone any longer. Their word is valueless and their commitment is useless. Just consider student loan forgiveness. First off, it isn’t forgiveness, it’s making non-defaulters pay for the agreements they welched on. Half of the country thinks it is ok! That tells us what we have as fellow countrymen.
You are so wrong that I don’t even know where to start. The young men who climbed Mt. Suribachi in 1945 and planted the flag on top walk among us. Quit it with your “good old days” fallacy and stop ragging on “kids these days.”
Such young men still walk among us – but if they’re in college, they’re having to lay lower than a Marine pinned down by several machine guns at Guadalcanal.
“More than 150 years ago, the founders of Boston University School of Law (BU Law) broke with this nation’s then widely accepted, but unjust norms of racial segregation to welcome students of all races, genders, and religions.”
Because it was wrong to discriminate based on race, not because “diversity is king”. Those people are idiots.
150 years ago, they didn’t dig down to the bottom of the essay pile to find “enough of them” to admit — they just stopped discarding out of hand the ones that achieved the top of the pile.
Yep.
This is what higher education has descended to
Grow up now or grow up later. Your choice.
The supreme court’s ruling on affirmative action is unlikely to change the demographics of the undergraduate population in the short-term. They will find ways to circumvent the ruling, by way of ignoring manifest metrics like the SAT and GPA scores of the applicants.
What it will do, is provide future litigants with standing, which many could not achieve previously, and it will allow the litigation to move to discovery. Respondents will be reduced to hand-waving in court regarding ‘holistic admissions’ and other similar nonsense. Juries do not like this horse-crap, and eventually the universities will be brought into line by lawsuits and the threat of future ones.
Erronius
We (sane people) are looking at this all wrong. These ‘therapy groups’ are just another tool that adults are using to manipulate kids. It’’s political tool that creates the victims before they actually arrive.
The adminis, teachers and professors that promote and enable this are the actual ones that need therapy. It’s easy to draw the students into this cause by pampering them with activist motivated pity.
I would call it one of the most powerful and insidious tools the left has.
What I find most ironic in their statement is that they confirm their SYSTEMIC racism when they say “…This commitment [to affirmative action and racial discrimination] is part of our institutional DNA….”
There is indeed “systemic racism” in Democrat-run, leftist-controlled “institutions” in this country that are systematically racist, like universities —by their own admission!—should be shut down, fined, and otherwise crushed, putting these proud, self-admitted racists out of power and control, if not completely out of business altogether.
Can we agree on one thing? When decades of precedent essentially say “We’ll let this pass for now, but it must eventually be eliminated”, it is NOT an overturning of precedent when that thing is, in fact, eventually eliminated.
And here’s me thinking it’s us Right Wing (as opposed to Wrong Wing) Whites who are supposed to suffer from fragility!