NEW: Many states and cities now have bias reporting systems for citizens to report each other for "hate speech.". Oregon's hotline solicits reports of "offensive jokes" and even logged the Israeli flag as a bias incident when I reported a display of one. Wokeness is not dead.🧵

TLDR: Columbia Law hired an anti-Trump DEI consultant to lecture students on why the terms “crazy uncle” and “grandfathering” are offensive and to mock the president for committing “microaggressions”—just a month after making a deal with the admin. Link:

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"If it was a man, then by saying something I would have helped a stranger avoid momentary embarrassment," she wrote. "However, if it was a woman, then I would have committed a textbook microaggression. The person was going about their day, and a total stranger made a comment that

She has also claimed that the Trump administration will "erode our rights" and called on companies to "defend DEI." In a blog post published in February, she said that she doesn't alert men when they are entering women’s bathrooms, lest she inadvertently commit a microaggression.

In exchange for the return of federal funds, Columbia agreed to "maintain merit-based admissions policies," avoid "unlawful DEI programs," and promote "open debate." But Fletcher, who told students that "inappropriate language does cause harm," has explicitly argued that "you.

As the White House continues to push for deals with top universities, the session offers a window into how even schools seeking to appease the president have continued the DEI programs he is attempting to destroy.

A CLS spokesman said the training was intended to fulfill the accreditation standards of the American Bar Association, which requires law schools to "provide education to law students on bias, cross-cultural competency, and racism" at the start of their legal education.

The training at Columbia—where one student said that "Zionists deserve to die"—did not address any of comments that made Jewish students fear for their safety during the anti-Israel protests that prompted the White House to freeze more than $400 mill to the university in March.

"I learned from it," Fletcher recalled. "I’ve never said it again. … If you said something that landed on somebody badly or was inappropriate in some way, wouldn't you want to know?".

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And she described how, at a "lawyer well-being group" in Massachusetts, she had been chided for using the term "crazy uncle" because it could stigmatize those with mental health issues.

Elsewhere in the training, Fletcher argued that lawyers should avoid the term "grandfathering" because of its "racist origins" in the Jim Crow South.

"I know I shouldn't go political, but our president did that recently to an African president, [the] president of Liberia," Fletcher said. "‘You speak English better than the people in my office.’ Hmmm… yes, he does.".

When one student mentioned complimenting a foreign person’s English, Fletcher launched into a diatribe against Trump, who in July had praised Liberia’s president, Joseph Boakai, for speaking better English than his own cabinet.

In audio of the training reviewed by the Free Beacon, Fletcher—who has wished her clients a "HappyChrismaHanuKwanzakah"—described the complaint as a paradigmatic "microaggression" and encouraged students to list other examples.

Facilitated by Marguerite Fletcher, a former corporate attorney at WilmerHale, the training was organized around a single "case study" in which a student complains that it is difficult to schedule events around Jewish holidays.

NEW: At a mandatory training for Columbia Law students, a diversity consultant warned that the terms "crazy uncle" and "grandfathering" could be offensive and attacked President for complimenting the president of Liberia on his English, calling the comment a "microaggression."🧵.

RT @FreeBeacon: NEW: In its deal with the Trump administration, Columbia University agreed to avoid "unlawful DEI programs" and promote "op….

RT @elianayjohnson: At a mandatory training for Columbia Law students, a vocally anti-Trump diversity consultant warned that the terms "cra….

WRECKED. Hirono: Has any court said that DEI is unconstitutional? Yes or no?. Hamilton: Yes. Hirono: Which court?. Hamilton: The United States Supreme Court. Hirono: I disagree with you…. Hamilton: You can go read it yourself. 🔥🔥🔥

SOURCE: Columbia Law School’s student orientation includes a vignette in which a student complains that it’s impossible to schedule events around Jewish holidays. This is what the school picked as its example of anti-Semitism. Not calls to murder Zionists or any of the other

RT @GailHeriot: I’ve been arguing this for years (& working to encourage a lawsuit). Thank you to Tennessee AG Skrmetti for filing the laws….

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