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Must I Mentor a White Law Student When I Requested a Black Mentee? (NYT)

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/29/magazine/law-school-mento...
Magenta heady toaster
  12/07/22
https://archive.ph/C8JDE
provocative sadistic boistinker
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lmao
Black pontificating principal's office
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Talented Native Coffee Pot
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180 forum
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I suppose it would suck to mentor someone more intelligent
appetizing bat-shit-crazy mother
  12/07/22
imagine being this white law student chick and having to &ld...
Black pontificating principal's office
  12/07/22
Good training for what's to come.
beady-eyed splenetic philosopher-king
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Excitant cruel-hearted orchestra pit party of the first part
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Ivory affirmative action
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Twinkling Home
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imagine how "chill" it would be to be some white l...
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provocative sadistic boistinker
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Emerald federal locus
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excluding the racial element, it's really good training for ...
Galvanic nubile faggot firefighter son of senegal
  12/07/22
I STILL expect these to be flame threads. When will I learn?
Concupiscible Degenerate Church Building
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You know, we used to live in a society where blacks had thei...
Emerald federal locus
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white law student's thought when she saw her mentor: "...
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beady-eyed splenetic philosopher-king
  12/07/22
i mean, good for the letter-writer to acknowledge the moral ...
cordovan pit
  12/07/22
Yea. Cringe at it bitch. Cringe at that shit. cringe hard. C...
Diverse insecure foreskin twinkling uncleanness
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Can you imagine the NYT publishing a white lawyer who only w...
Poppy Nighttime Bawdyhouse Macaca
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“There are so many factors in her favor that I don&rsq...
Demanding Background Story Menage
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“Black attorneys… continue to face horrific exp...
electric main people piazza
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tbf, getting a second jd does sound horrible.
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beady-eyed splenetic philosopher-king
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I would love to know what she means by this. I can't think ...
Excitant cruel-hearted orchestra pit party of the first part
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walnut nofapping location trust fund
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it’s all so tiring
Crimson costumed people who are hurt idea he suggested
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irradiated meetinghouse telephone
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Just give them FL AL GA MS and LA and let’s be done wi...
vivacious cruise ship coldplay fan
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Fuck you, that's some of the best land in the country. Send ...
Emerald federal locus
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Stimulating Jap
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yeah, no blacks there
irradiated meetinghouse telephone
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Stimulating Jap
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only a matter of time https://www.reuters.com/article/us-eu...
irradiated meetinghouse telephone
  12/07/22
Wtf no, we're keeping Florida
Exciting masturbator elastic band
  12/07/22
fine, swap SC for FL.
vivacious cruise ship coldplay fan
  12/07/22
how are the comments?
Violent temple
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N Note Metro Philadelphia Dec. 3 I read and understood t...
vigorous blathering multi-billionaire
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M MiamiHeatFan Florida Nov. 29 LW1 would be doing the me...
vigorous blathering multi-billionaire
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Adam Gussow Oxford, MS Nov. 29 I'm cheered by the fact th...
vigorous blathering multi-billionaire
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confronted with the question about transracial mentorship ...
Ivory affirmative action
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EPAH donated 100k to the law school formally known as Hastin...
Fragrant ratface
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When did "mentee" replace "protege"? It...
Balding University Ceo
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It sounds like manatee.
beady-eyed splenetic philosopher-king
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I'm a manatee https://youtu.be/tM_lrK4upvw
irradiated meetinghouse telephone
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mentat/mentee
vivacious cruise ship coldplay fan
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Guys I'm starting to dislike niggers
supple adulterous police squad
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To be fair, A brainwashed woke liberal white woman who ha...
red casino volcanic crater
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tbf defending the african race for once? 180 but isn't ev...
provocative sadistic boistinker
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To be fair, I didn't read the article but based on my car...
red casino volcanic crater
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the first line of the article here is 'i am a black woman'. ...
provocative sadistic boistinker
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To be fair, Oh OK sorry I didn't read this NYT article ...
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Ivory affirmative action
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Date: December 7th, 2022 10:06 AM
Author: Magenta heady toaster

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/29/magazine/law-school-mentoring-race-ethics.html

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5248881&forum_id=2#45598227)



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Date: December 7th, 2022 10:24 AM
Author: provocative sadistic boistinker

https://archive.ph/C8JDE

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Date: December 7th, 2022 10:13 AM
Author: Black pontificating principal's office

lmao

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5248881&forum_id=2#45598273)



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Date: December 7th, 2022 3:36 PM
Author: Talented Native Coffee Pot



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Date: December 7th, 2022 10:14 AM
Author: 180 forum



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Date: December 7th, 2022 10:17 AM
Author: appetizing bat-shit-crazy mother

I suppose it would suck to mentor someone more intelligent

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5248881&forum_id=2#45598297)



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Date: December 7th, 2022 10:18 AM
Author: Black pontificating principal's office

imagine being this white law student chick and having to “get coffee” with some black cunt alum who not-so-subtly despises you

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5248881&forum_id=2#45598307)



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Date: December 7th, 2022 10:20 AM
Author: beady-eyed splenetic philosopher-king

Good training for what's to come.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5248881&forum_id=2#45598319)



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Date: December 7th, 2022 10:22 AM
Author: Black pontificating principal's office



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Date: December 7th, 2022 10:24 AM
Author: irradiated meetinghouse telephone



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Date: December 7th, 2022 10:25 AM
Author: Demanding Background Story Menage



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Date: December 7th, 2022 10:27 AM
Author: electric main people piazza



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Date: December 7th, 2022 10:28 AM
Author: Emerald federal locus



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Date: December 7th, 2022 10:33 AM
Author: Crimson costumed people who are hurt idea he suggested



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Date: December 7th, 2022 10:45 AM
Author: Aqua Mental Disorder



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Date: December 7th, 2022 10:53 AM
Author: Lascivious wrinkle house



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Date: December 7th, 2022 1:38 PM
Author: chestnut old irish cottage



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Date: December 7th, 2022 2:39 PM
Author: Excitant cruel-hearted orchestra pit party of the first part



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Date: December 7th, 2022 2:49 PM
Author: Ivory affirmative action



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Date: December 7th, 2022 2:51 PM
Author: Onyx filthpig



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5248881&forum_id=2#45599741)



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Date: December 7th, 2022 3:20 PM
Author: Twinkling Home



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Date: December 7th, 2022 10:21 AM
Author: Light Hairy Legs

imagine how "chill" it would be to be some white law student who gets assigned a black "mentor" who is 15 IQ dumber than you and openly hates you

The Majesty Of The Law

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5248881&forum_id=2#45598327)



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Date: December 7th, 2022 10:23 AM
Author: provocative sadistic boistinker



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Date: December 7th, 2022 10:28 AM
Author: Emerald federal locus



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Date: December 7th, 2022 10:30 AM
Author: Galvanic nubile faggot firefighter son of senegal

excluding the racial element, it's really good training for what life will be like as an associate

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5248881&forum_id=2#45598392)



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Date: December 7th, 2022 10:23 AM
Author: Concupiscible Degenerate Church Building

I STILL expect these to be flame threads. When will I learn?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5248881&forum_id=2#45598340)



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Date: December 7th, 2022 10:25 AM
Author: Emerald federal locus

You know, we used to live in a society where blacks had their own public life and this kind of thing wasn't a problem. I wonder why that changed.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5248881&forum_id=2#45598354)



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Date: December 7th, 2022 10:26 AM
Author: Crystalline sweet tailpipe

white law student's thought when she saw her mentor: "oh, goddamn it."

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5248881&forum_id=2#45598357)



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Date: December 7th, 2022 10:47 AM
Author: beady-eyed splenetic philosopher-king



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Date: December 7th, 2022 10:27 AM
Author: cordovan pit

i mean, good for the letter-writer to acknowledge the moral question and ask an authority (who largely gets the answer right). but i admit, i did cringe at the part of the letter where she wonders whether assisting this student "would be ultimately contributing to my own oppression"

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5248881&forum_id=2#45598360)



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Date: December 7th, 2022 2:56 PM
Author: Diverse insecure foreskin twinkling uncleanness

Yea. Cringe at it bitch. Cringe at that shit. cringe hard. Cringe DEEP.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5248881&forum_id=2#45599763)



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Date: December 7th, 2022 10:27 AM
Author: Poppy Nighttime Bawdyhouse Macaca

Can you imagine the NYT publishing a white lawyer who only wanted to mentor another white person and got stuck with a black student? Something tells me the reaction would be a tad different

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5248881&forum_id=2#45598365)



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Date: December 7th, 2022 10:28 AM
Author: Demanding Background Story Menage

“There are so many factors in her favor that I don’t really want to help give her even more of a leg up in my free time.”

i’ve got some good news for the correspondent.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5248881&forum_id=2#45598374)



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Date: December 7th, 2022 10:29 AM
Author: electric main people piazza

“Black attorneys… continue to face horrific experiences in law school”

Lol

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5248881&forum_id=2#45598384)



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Date: December 7th, 2022 10:32 AM
Author: Demanding Background Story Menage

tbf, getting a second jd does sound horrible.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5248881&forum_id=2#45598404)



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Date: December 7th, 2022 10:33 AM
Author: Medicated adventurous plaza



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Date: December 7th, 2022 10:45 AM
Author: Violent temple



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5248881&forum_id=2#45598462)



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Date: December 7th, 2022 10:47 AM
Author: Aqua Mental Disorder



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Date: December 7th, 2022 3:13 PM
Author: Maniacal Obsidian Nursing Home



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Date: December 7th, 2022 3:15 PM
Author: Excitant cruel-hearted orchestra pit party of the first part



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5248881&forum_id=2#45599884)



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Date: December 7th, 2022 10:37 AM
Author: beady-eyed splenetic philosopher-king



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Date: December 7th, 2022 3:16 PM
Author: Excitant cruel-hearted orchestra pit party of the first part

I would love to know what she means by this. I can't think of a hotter commodity on the job market than a black JD.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5248881&forum_id=2#45599888)



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Date: December 7th, 2022 5:08 PM
Author: walnut nofapping location trust fund



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Date: December 7th, 2022 10:34 AM
Author: Crimson costumed people who are hurt idea he suggested

it’s all so tiring

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5248881&forum_id=2#45598414)



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Date: December 7th, 2022 10:41 AM
Author: irradiated meetinghouse telephone



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Date: December 7th, 2022 10:44 AM
Author: vivacious cruise ship coldplay fan

Just give them FL AL GA MS and LA and let’s be done with it. I’d have to move, would suck but we’d be done

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5248881&forum_id=2#45598457)



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Date: December 7th, 2022 10:46 AM
Author: Emerald federal locus

Fuck you, that's some of the best land in the country. Send them north and let libs live among their political pets.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5248881&forum_id=2#45598468)



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Date: December 7th, 2022 10:51 AM
Author: Stimulating Jap



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Date: December 7th, 2022 10:52 AM
Author: irradiated meetinghouse telephone

yeah, no blacks there

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5248881&forum_id=2#45598492)



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Date: December 7th, 2022 10:54 AM
Author: Stimulating Jap



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Date: December 7th, 2022 11:12 AM
Author: irradiated meetinghouse telephone

only a matter of time

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-europe-migrants-africa-analysis/africas-population-boom-fuels-unstoppable-migration-to-europe-idUSKCN12D1PN

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5248881&forum_id=2#45598571)



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Date: December 7th, 2022 10:56 AM
Author: Exciting masturbator elastic band

Wtf no, we're keeping Florida

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5248881&forum_id=2#45598510)



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Date: December 7th, 2022 1:54 PM
Author: vivacious cruise ship coldplay fan

fine, swap SC for FL.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5248881&forum_id=2#45599451)



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Date: December 7th, 2022 10:57 AM
Author: Violent temple

how are the comments?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5248881&forum_id=2#45598513)



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Date: December 7th, 2022 1:39 PM
Author: vigorous blathering multi-billionaire

N

Note

Metro Philadelphia

Dec. 3

I read and understood the situation outlined by LW1 as well as the advice given. But I'm left with the queasy feeling that a white mentor trying to walk away from a program because they didn't get a white mentee would have resulted in a vastly different conversation.

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(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5248881&forum_id=2#45599390)



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Date: December 7th, 2022 1:40 PM
Author: vigorous blathering multi-billionaire

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MiamiHeatFan

Florida

Nov. 29

LW1 would be doing the mentee a favor to decline. I was once assigned a mentor who told me she didn't want to do it, then detailed the inherent privileges I had that weren't available to her. I informally sought out another mentor, and learned a lot. After my tryout period my mentor advised against hiring me, saying I lacked empathy. My informal mentor intervened and I got the job. LW1 would be a bad mentor. That's reason enough to decline.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5248881&forum_id=2#45599394)



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Date: December 7th, 2022 1:40 PM
Author: vigorous blathering multi-billionaire

Adam Gussow

Oxford, MS

Nov. 29

I'm cheered by the fact that Prof. Appiah, confronted with the question about transracial mentorship, managed to address it with exquisite tact, thoughtfulness, and equanimity. Another reader, equally determined to clarify the would-be mentor's ethical concerns but less inclined to make nice, might have pointed out that her claim about her would-be mentee, "I don't have anything against her," is flatly contracted by most of the rest of her letter, in which she makes clear that she does indeed hold that would-be mentee's race--her whiteness--against her. There's a word for those who negatively prejudge others in this way, on the basis of race. It's not a nice word. The irony here, as Prof. Appiah wisely notes, is that the would-be mentee, a white woman, may well have asked to be paired with a Black female mentor--concerned with social justice as so many younger white people have become these days. That white would-be mentee might even have been required to submit a diversity statement in her law school application, testifying to her anti-racist bona fides and her yearning to work with and learn from Black elders in the field. Viewed in this context, her would-be Black mentor's a priori, race-based resistance to working with her isn't just problematic on a purely human level, but it's at odds with the just, equitable, and inclusive world that contemporary DEI ideology is seeking to bring into being.

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(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5248881&forum_id=2#45599397)



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Date: December 7th, 2022 2:51 PM
Author: Ivory affirmative action

confronted with the question about transracial mentorship

confronted with the question about transracial mentorship

confronted with the question about transracial mentorship

confronted with the question about transracial mentorship

confronted with the question about transracial mentorship

confronted with the question about transracial mentorship

confronted with the question about transracial mentorship

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5248881&forum_id=2#45599747)



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Date: December 7th, 2022 1:37 PM
Author: Fragrant ratface

EPAH donated 100k to the law school formally known as Hastings on the condition he received two (2) WOC mentees per academic year

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5248881&forum_id=2#45599383)



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Date: December 7th, 2022 1:39 PM
Author: Balding University Ceo

When did "mentee" replace "protege"? It's a lot clunkier sounding.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5248881&forum_id=2#45599391)



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Date: December 7th, 2022 1:41 PM
Author: beady-eyed splenetic philosopher-king

It sounds like manatee.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5248881&forum_id=2#45599400)



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Date: December 7th, 2022 1:46 PM
Author: irradiated meetinghouse telephone

I'm a manatee

https://youtu.be/tM_lrK4upvw

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5248881&forum_id=2#45599420)



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Date: December 7th, 2022 1:54 PM
Author: vivacious cruise ship coldplay fan

mentat/mentee

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5248881&forum_id=2#45599454)



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Date: December 7th, 2022 2:16 PM
Author: supple adulterous police squad

Guys I'm starting to dislike niggers

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5248881&forum_id=2#45599577)



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Date: December 7th, 2022 2:59 PM
Author: red casino volcanic crater

To be fair,

A brainwashed woke liberal white woman who has been actively trained to hate her own race and worship niggers by Jews, writing into a woke liberal Jewish newspaper to complain about fellow white people (because they are white), somehow makes you hate... black people? That's all somehow the fault of nigs?

Settle down, Avi.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5248881&forum_id=2#45599771)



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Date: December 7th, 2022 3:16 PM
Author: provocative sadistic boistinker

tbf defending the african race for once? 180

but isn't everyone involved here black

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5248881&forum_id=2#45599892)



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Date: December 7th, 2022 4:58 PM
Author: red casino volcanic crater

To be fair,

I didn't read the article but based on my careful review of this thread, it sounds like the only nigger is the "expert ethicist" weighing in to say that this isn't cool.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5248881&forum_id=2#45600453)



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Date: December 7th, 2022 5:06 PM
Author: provocative sadistic boistinker

the first line of the article here is 'i am a black woman'. the advice given is that law school is stressful for everyone regardless of race so she should be nice. lol @ cons

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5248881&forum_id=2#45600490)



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Date: December 7th, 2022 5:09 PM
Author: red casino volcanic crater

To be fair,

Oh OK sorry I didn't read this NYT article

Back to fuck niggers I guess

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Date: December 7th, 2022 5:13 PM
Author: Ivory affirmative action



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