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Recorded diversity training exercise at my 1L orientation asked Q's about BLM

I was inspired to write this up after this thread about the ...
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flame, right?
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No, it's real. I really wish I had taken screenshots, but it...
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how's Boalt
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Drop out now. Xoxohth
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You recorded this?
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  09/02/20
also a t14 1L, didn't have any of this shit at orientation
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they talked at us but we weren't required to affirm shit di...
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how’s UVA?
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I've been in class for 2 weeks and haven't seen any of this ...
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(Guy about to get disbarred)
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guards! we have another "thinker"!
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In the name of DiAngelo, amen.
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Was this like mandatory to pass your classes or something?
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Date: September 2nd, 2020 1:13 PM
Author: Maize quadroon native

I was inspired to write this up after this thread about the Northwestern orientation: http://www.xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=4616430&mc=62&forum_id=2

Before orientation we had to take a 120-question survey about our "cultural sensitivity." It asked us how much we agree/disagree with statements like "My culture is [freer / more tolerant / more industrious / etc] than other cultures." It was obviously written to get Americans to say good things about America, but there was a second set of instructions that said if you felt your "culture" wasn't necessarily a country, you could answer the questions about that culture. So America-hating libs were prompted to say nice things about liberal culture.

Once on Zoom, we then did a "self-identification" exercise. In a recorded session of 800+ people, we were told to hold up our name plates every time the speaker said something we agreed with. We would thus see the names and faces of our peers tied to specific beliefs. It started off innocuously enough: "I am excited to start law school." "I am nervous about classes." "I am proud of my family background." Then the typical diversity stuff: "I am first gen / LGBT / black / disabled."

But then they started asking about political beliefs. After the speaker said "I am a feminist" the people whose name plates were raised began glaring at the people who didn't. The next one was "I am an environmentalist" and more name plates were raised, but some people started visibly shaking their heads, and by the end of the prompt, almost everyone had their name plates raised. Then, "I am an antiracist." Even I hesitated at this one, but everyone ended up raising their plates having been conditioned by the previous prompts.

I was reminded of a passage from a book on how CCP prisoners of war were encouraged to write essays to get rewards like cigarettes. Since only essays bashing America won, over time the POWs were conditioned into writing anti-American essays, and subconsciously began to identify more with communism. By the end of the exercise, you could have gotten us to raise our name plates for anything BLM-related.

The final step of the indoctrination was to remind us all about our survey responses. They made a big deal about the science behind the survey, and how some huge longitudinal study had shown its accuracy in detecting racism. Of course, when it instructs people to essentially say nice things about their in-group, it can find "racism" anywhere. When our class was told how racist our survey responses were, some people took it really personally. I saw a few women start crying and turn off video. It felt kind of like a religious ceremony, something out of Scientology. We were all sinners, and the only way to cleanse ourselves of this horrible racism was to follow the teachings of antiracism and commit works in the name of BLM (joining certain activist student groups).

This is a T14 law school committing this kind of emotional blackmail.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4616874&forum_id=2#40858293)



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Date: September 2nd, 2020 1:14 PM
Author: razzle indecent casino

Chuck, you know what to do ... oh, wait.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4616874&forum_id=2#40858298)



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Date: February 25th, 2021 3:19 PM
Author: magical hairless travel guidebook



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4616874&forum_id=2#42008477)



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Date: September 2nd, 2020 1:15 PM
Author: Well-lubricated Abode Internal Respiration

Burn it all down.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4616874&forum_id=2#40858304)



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Date: September 2nd, 2020 1:32 PM
Author: abusive hairraiser idiot field

diabolical

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4616874&forum_id=2#40858370)



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Date: September 2nd, 2020 1:55 PM
Author: thriller boistinker partner

How is this real

Also you should share this story with media outlets

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4616874&forum_id=2#40858540)



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Date: September 2nd, 2020 2:01 PM
Author: abusive hairraiser idiot field

and spend the next three years being shunned ostracized and retaliated against by the people who thought this was a good idea in the first place.

doing this to first semester 1Ls is truly despicable - people who are already very nervous and worrying about fitting in.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4616874&forum_id=2#40858589)



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Date: September 2nd, 2020 2:06 PM
Author: olive misunderstood deer antler

he could be an anonymous source

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4616874&forum_id=2#40858622)



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Date: September 2nd, 2020 10:46 PM
Author: big-titted fuchsia mexican



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4616874&forum_id=2#40861335)



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Date: September 2nd, 2020 2:04 PM
Author: multi-colored insanely creepy tank pistol

800+ people? jfc NYU is a ttt.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4616874&forum_id=2#40858612)



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Date: September 2nd, 2020 2:37 PM
Author: hyperventilating irradiated station toaster



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4616874&forum_id=2#40858844)



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Date: September 2nd, 2020 10:49 PM
Author: yapping trailer park hominid

it really is

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4616874&forum_id=2#40861356)



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Date: September 2nd, 2020 2:06 PM
Author: olive misunderstood deer antler

go to the media, not flame

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4616874&forum_id=2#40858619)



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Date: February 25th, 2021 3:19 PM
Author: magical hairless travel guidebook



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4616874&forum_id=2#42008479)



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Date: September 2nd, 2020 2:07 PM
Author: brindle windowlicker

Out the law center

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4616874&forum_id=2#40858629)



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Date: September 2nd, 2020 2:10 PM
Author: Rambunctious Lascivious Space Background Story

flame, right?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4616874&forum_id=2#40858659)



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Date: September 2nd, 2020 2:12 PM
Author: violet theatre legend



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4616874&forum_id=2#40858681)



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Date: September 2nd, 2020 2:25 PM
Author: Lemon theater stage associate

Has to be. This shit can't be real

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4616874&forum_id=2#40858769)



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Date: September 2nd, 2020 3:05 PM
Author: Maize quadroon native

No, it's real. I really wish I had taken screenshots, but it wouldn't have captured the audio prompts or the peer pressure element. They sent an email afterwards with a list of public interest, immigration, and family law classes to consider in the future and forums to "further the conversation" like Black Student Union events. If you feel drawn to the vocation, you can even participate in the "Inclusion Council" creating programming like the session in OP, or serve on the team adjudicating bias incidents led by the Associate Dean of Diversity and Inclusion.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4616874&forum_id=2#40859001)



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Date: September 2nd, 2020 11:09 PM
Author: vengeful sooty police squad school

how's Boalt

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4616874&forum_id=2#40861499)



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Date: September 2nd, 2020 2:11 PM
Author: Lilac Roast Beef

Drop out now. Xoxohth

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4616874&forum_id=2#40858674)



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Date: September 2nd, 2020 2:12 PM
Author: abusive hairraiser idiot field



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4616874&forum_id=2#40858685)



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Date: September 2nd, 2020 2:17 PM
Author: wonderful effete university gaping



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4616874&forum_id=2#40858720)



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Date: September 2nd, 2020 2:22 PM
Author: Bisexual Rehab



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4616874&forum_id=2#40858752)



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Date: September 2nd, 2020 10:46 PM
Author: big-titted fuchsia mexican



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4616874&forum_id=2#40861336)



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Date: September 2nd, 2020 2:27 PM
Author: provocative stage



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4616874&forum_id=2#40858782)



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Date: September 2nd, 2020 2:47 PM
Author: Umber Beady-eyed Son Of Senegal Mad Cow Disease



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4616874&forum_id=2#40858902)



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Date: September 2nd, 2020 3:53 PM
Author: offensive rigor

You recorded this?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4616874&forum_id=2#40859287)



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Date: September 2nd, 2020 3:58 PM
Author: vengeful sooty police squad school

also a t14 1L, didn't have any of this shit at orientation

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4616874&forum_id=2#40859318)



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Date: September 2nd, 2020 4:05 PM
Author: Boyish honey-headed resort

they talked at us but we weren't required to affirm shit

diversity priest during orientation asked "what is diverse" and i said "not white, lol" (a lot easier to do on zoom-i probably woulda chicken'd out in person). surprisingly it turned into a pretty decent conversation. talked about how diverse white ppl are w/r/t hair, eye color, ethnicity; it seemed like they were making an actual effort to consider whites as well. can't believe it happened considering the academic piety going around. very blue state too

i'm a pretty high ranking in-house associate at Racism Inc. and i actually ended that day feeling ok

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4616874&forum_id=2#40859363)



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Date: September 2nd, 2020 10:49 PM
Author: yapping trailer park hominid

how’s UVA?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4616874&forum_id=2#40861359)



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Date: September 2nd, 2020 4:06 PM
Author: Startling exhilarant sanctuary



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4616874&forum_id=2#40859378)



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Date: September 2nd, 2020 5:01 PM
Author: green institution multi-billionaire

How in the fuck can you have an 800+ person zoom session with people "glaring" at each other? How would you know who any specific person is looking at?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4616874&forum_id=2#40859737)



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Date: September 2nd, 2020 5:01 PM
Author: Jet-lagged dysfunction kitty cat



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4616874&forum_id=2#40859738)



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Date: September 2nd, 2020 10:44 PM
Author: Maize quadroon native

You only see 50 people at once on a page in gallery view. So it was easy enough on my monitor to see that certain people were answering after seeing other people answer.

The glaring is a fair point. I got that from a private Slack thread of students in my section where afterwards people were making fun of the students who didn't answer yes to the feminism or environmentalism question. I guess I don't know if they were aware they were being glared at or badmouthed in private, but there was more compliance for the later prompts.

I'm not surprised xo thinks this is flame. This is grad school in 2020, basically everyone from the administrators to the students is an HR shrew.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4616874&forum_id=2#40861325)



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Date: September 2nd, 2020 10:49 PM
Author: vengeful sooty police squad school

I've been in class for 2 weeks and haven't seen any of this shit. The diversity events for orientation were all optional

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4616874&forum_id=2#40861358)



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Date: September 2nd, 2020 10:50 PM
Author: Embarrassed to the bone opaque site

the people most vocal on student slacks are usually the biggest gunner shitheads imaginable

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4616874&forum_id=2#40861370)



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Date: September 2nd, 2020 10:52 PM
Author: vengeful sooty police squad school



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4616874&forum_id=2#40861380)



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Date: September 3rd, 2020 2:30 AM
Author: green institution multi-billionaire

Hypothetically,if this actually happened to me, I'd put my namecard face down and sit back and tune it out the rest of the time. If actually prompted on video in front of 800 people, I'd probably ask how a political indoctrination session was related to learning to practice law. If they really hassled me, I'd probably say something like "look, I mean no disrespect, I was just trying to relax and let you run your struggle session in peace, it's an amusing spectacle, but since you've asked for my opinion I'd be remiss if I didn't point out how embarrassing and sad it is for someone who purports to teach the critical thinking skills needed to succeed as a lawyer to tie themselves to these logically indefensible premises. That's just a personal opinion based on my lived experience though."

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4616874&forum_id=2#40862275)



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Date: September 3rd, 2020 2:37 AM
Author: Lemon theater stage associate

(Guy about to get disbarred)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4616874&forum_id=2#40862282)



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Date: September 3rd, 2020 2:38 AM
Author: thriller boistinker partner

pwn pwn pwn

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4616874&forum_id=2#40862284)



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Date: September 3rd, 2020 2:38 AM
Author: Judgmental mad-dog skullcap

guards! we have another "thinker"!

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4616874&forum_id=2#40862286)



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Date: September 3rd, 2020 2:49 AM
Author: alcoholic spectacular puppy

(guy who sat in the front row of Con Law and raised his hand in class)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4616874&forum_id=2#40862308)



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Date: September 3rd, 2020 4:04 AM
Author: green institution multi-billionaire

lmao I was empty chair guy

for mandatory attendance classes, I voluntarily spoke a grand total of 0 times in my law school career

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4616874&forum_id=2#40862375)



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Date: September 2nd, 2020 11:06 PM
Author: dashing doctorate giraffe

In the name of DiAngelo, amen.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4616874&forum_id=2#40861484)



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Date: September 3rd, 2020 2:38 AM
Author: thriller boistinker partner



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4616874&forum_id=2#40862285)



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Date: September 3rd, 2020 2:35 AM
Author: Judgmental mad-dog skullcap

how much are you paying for this kike faggotry again?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4616874&forum_id=2#40862281)



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Date: September 3rd, 2020 2:41 AM
Author: dull stage macaca

Was this like mandatory to pass your classes or something?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4616874&forum_id=2#40862294)



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Date: February 25th, 2021 3:19 PM
Author: magical hairless travel guidebook

This is absolutely terrifying.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4616874&forum_id=2#42008480)