The "Jurisprudence" section was busy this week—maybe because the topics (diversity in law schools and eyewitnesses) were so popular, or maybe because so many Fray posters are lawyers. …

Subject: Getting It Right
Re: "Politics: Fascist Family Feud"
From: Tom Round
Date: Tue May 14  11:37 p.m. PT

It's hardly surprising that, while left-wingers have their Socialist International (and call themselves some version of "Labo[u]r", "Socialist," or "Social Democrat" in virtually every democracy), right-wingers are unwilling and/or unable to link up across national boundaries (and note the much wider variety of names for conservative parties: they rarely if ever coincide). After all, part of being a conservative nationalist is believing that everyone outside the national family isn't quite up to scratch.

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Subject: More Danger
Re: "Politics: Exploding Myths"
From: Joy Cassell
Date: Wed May 15  9:25 a.m. PT

So Israel is able to keep suicide bombers out of Tel Aviv: Wonderful. Let's call that "success" for the sake of argument. What has history shown us? When terrorists cannot reach their Israeli targets they come after American targets. (Remember the 1980s—how many Israeli planes were hijacked?) I am glad that our Israeli friends are safe; for once I would like to see them return the compliment by getting into serious discussions about Palestinian independence.

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Subject: Equal Chances To Conform
Re: "Jurisprudence: The Legal Fiction of Diversity"
From: Deodand
Date: ThuMay 16  10:50 p.m. PT

Why in hell does a law school look for diversity in the incoming class anyway? The object of a law school is to make all its graduates act and sound alike—like professional lawyers. … As for university admission policies, exclusion is the problem. The answer is not to cobble up some silly ideological plan on how to sort out those who get in from those who don't. The answer is to make room. … Diversity is really a means to keep education exclusive, while fooling ourselves that we offer opportunity for all. We don't. We should. Education need not and should not exclude anybody who wants to learn and is willing to do what it takes to learn.

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