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Crybaby Law Professor Quits Twitter In A Huff Over UChicago Immigration Slur Debacle

After law student's sick burn, law professor decides to run away from critics.

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The fallout from the University of Chicago’s Edmund Burke Society debacle has claimed another “victim.” Professor M. Todd Henderson, the conservative professor slated to participate as the pro-immigration speaker in the infamous debate that students promoted with the casual use of slurs and stereotypes, has abandoned Twitter because he can’t deal with all the people calling out him out for some regrettable Twitter commentary.

It’s unclear how we will manage to carry on.

Professor Henderson, who came to the defense of the Burke Society in coverage of Chicago Law’s hamfisted response to the controversy, took to Twitter to explain how sad conservatives are in legal academia:

What? Your administration just slipped a disc bending over backward to defend hurling slurs at first- and second-generation immigrant students, but yeah, you’ve got it tough because — against all odds — those folks are starting to speak up when they land on the other end of cavalier racism.

Professor Henderson’s tweet parrots the widespread and laughable conservative trend of hijacking the language of discrimination to lament the fact that no one takes them seriously. They need more “diversity” because they’re “marginalized.” It’s a stark reminder that they think racism and sexism are just people with hurt feelings, so they see no problem projecting their own frowny face feels onto that discourse.

Maybe conservatives are marginalized on campus, but marginalization isn’t always bad. Everyone doesn’t get a trophy, buddy. It’s what I call the Martin Luther King test, referring to the hope that we someday judge on content of a person’s character and not the color of their skin. If you’re bitching about being marginalized over the content of your political arguments and not the color of your skin, or your sex, or gender identification, or religion, or national origin, well, that’s why nobody cares.

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One student took to Twitter to hit the nail on the head.

In fairness, I think he meant the 1960s — in the 1860s, the slavers were really feeling their oats until around the middle of that decade — but the point is sound. When prevailing wisdom turns on your worldview, you’re going to feel marginalized. You can soldier on or deal with it, but it’s not an argument for some artificial “accommodation” to make you feel better.

Your ideas aren’t very good. Try to come up with better ones.

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Yes, in the context of the Edmund Burke kerfuffle that had just happened, he’s comparing the sentiment that we should feel bad that people get ostracized for using racial slurs to making the same defense of segregationists in the 60s. He’s not necessarily saying you’re a bad human being, he’s illustrating how nonsensical this implied plea for sympathy is.

Honestly, this is Henderson’s worst argument since he tried to argue that he was poor because he only made $250K/year — a ludicrous claim that astoundingly found succor in these pages in one of those posts that reminds you that Elie Mystal used to be a favorite on the Huckabee show.

But putting aside the merits of this argument, how will Professor Henderson deal with this challenge? For some insight, it’s worth noting that earlier that day, Professor Henderson explained the intellectual necessity of speaking up and “engag[ing] the enemy,” so perhaps he’ll keep fighting the good fight in the face of harsh (but fair) criticism:

Nah. He blocked the student…

And then signed off of Twitter.

How many social media trolls will we have to lose before someone stands up to all this marginalization?

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HeadshotJoe Patrice is an editor at Above the Law and co-host of Thinking Like A Lawyer. Feel free to email any tips, questions, or comments. Follow him on Twitter if you’re interested in law, politics, and a healthy dose of college sports news.

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