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PRO-PALESTINE NYU LAW STUDENT SPEAKS OUT AFTER JOB OFFER WAS RESCINDED (theintercept.com)

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[-] Hyzerflip@lemmy.world 104 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Well no shit. This person used their position in academia to spam out a newsletter of their political affiliation to the student body. The offer was rescinded because the law firm saw that they don’t know or follow proper etiquette in positions of supposedly unbiased positions. This person will likely not be proper legal counsel to individuals or companies they might not personally see eye to eye.

[-] BananaTrifleViolin@kbin.social 42 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yeah this is exactly right; an inability to separate their own political stance from their professional role. For the law firm, there is also a lack of insight and common sense around wading into such a controversial and difficult issue in such a way.

This is the text from their newsletter:

Hi y'all.

This week, I want to express, first and foremost, my unwavering and absolute solidarity with Palestinians in their resistance against oppression toward liberation and self-determination. Israel bears full responsibility for this tremendous loss of life. This regime of state-sanctioned violence created the conditions that made resistance necessary. I will not condemn Palestinian resistance. Instead…

I condemn the violence of apartheid. I condemn the violence of settler colonialism. I condemn the violence of military occupation. I condemn the violence of dispossession and stolen homes. I condemn the violence of trapping thousands in an open-air prison. I condemn the violence of collective punishment. I condemn the violence of phosphorous bombs. I condemn the violence of the United States military-industrial complex. >I condemn the violence of obfuscating genocide as a "complex issue.” I condemn the violence in labeling oppressed people as "animals." I condemn the violence in removing historical context. I condemn the violence of silence.

Palestine will be free.

Your SBA President,
Ryna

This was in the NYU LAW Student Bar Association's SBA Weekly newsletter.

[-] assassin_aragorn@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago

Yikes

I'm a big advocate for considering Palestinians to be completely separate from Hamas, and that punishing civilians for the attack by cutting off crucial resources is unconscionable. If I were on a hiring committee, it would be for an engineering position, and I would strongly recommend against hiring them.

They have very pointedly not made a condemnation of the Hamas attack which killed innocent people and took them hostage. They liken that attack to legitimate Palestinian resistance, and they blame Israel for the actions of the terrorists, instead of the terrorists. This guy isn't losing the job offer for supporting Palestinian civilians. He's losing it for refusing to condemn murderers and the murders, and suggesting the terrorists are Palestine's resistance. And others have pointed out how he used his position of power inappropriately as a bully pulpit.

It's beyond clear that he'd be a terrible lawyer, and that he has a terrible morality. If he were an engineer, I wouldn't be able to trust his professional opinion to be separate from his personal one. If Israel was wanting to buy our green energy product, and the deal fell through, I couldn't know if he purposely tanked the deal or there were other issues. Not to mention, their causality is totally insane. When you have equipment failures or process events, if the reactor fails, the reactor fails. Something may have caused it to fail, but the reactor is still what failed, and you need to look into if the reactor design needs modification in some way. You can't say the root cause of the failure was something before the reactor and then totally ignore the reactor.

What a fucking idiot.

[-] paintbucketholder@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

They have very pointedly not made a condemnation of the Hamas attack which killed innocent people and took them hostage.

Not only is there absolutely no condemnation - that entire text is a justification of the mass murder of 1,200 people.

[-] greywolf0x1@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Okay, liberal

[-] assassin_aragorn@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

Would you like to elaborate on why disliking the murder of innocents and the conflating of all Palestinians with Hamas is disagreeable to you?

[-] masterspace@lemmy.ca 18 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Even as someone who is generally pro-Palestine, if I was working at a law firm I would rescind a job offer to the person who wrote and sent around that letter.

I mean if I was hiring a roofer or something and saw that he had a pro Palestine newsletter like that, who cares. But if I'm hiring another professional whose entire job it is to not only see nuances in cases and arguments, but to recognize how best to present and argue them before a court of people who may have very different beliefs than them, and make frequent on the record statements that will be preserved until society collapses, then this gives me pretty ample reason to believe they won't be capable of executing any of that with the level of professionalism I would want out of a coworker.

[-] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Yup. I had a funny little blog while I was in college. I think i had twenty regular readers. It was unassociated with my name, but if you tried you could find the connections. When I went into tax and consulting, that blog disappeared into the aether. Publicly I had to be boring and professional. It's so... What's the word. Not me.

[-] jarfil@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

that blog disappeared into the aether

Out of curiosity... before, or after Archive.org?

[-] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

No one backed it up in there. I checked. It was a small blog.

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[-] Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

I had to deal with this during the pandemic. As the team lead, my ex-worker, exhausted and furious at the political climate, fired off a email to our client base. It doesn't matter if we agreed with the statement or not. But like, bro... we provide technical services.

I tried my best to step in front of the fire, brush it as a misstep and give them mental health days. But they went radioactive on the CEO and my boss and I had to let them go.

It's like that Dave Chappelle skit "when keeping it real goes wrong"

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[-] Anonymousllama@lemmy.world 21 points 1 year ago

Freedom of speech, not freedom from consequences, which this person is now recognizing

[-] cupcakezealot 17 points 1 year ago

Americas greatest export is hating marginalized people so white countries and invade and colonize

it's no different from 20 years ago only now Republicans are openly fascist too

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