Twenty people trickle into a Cornell Law classroom on March 25, coffee cups in hand, ready for the show.
Amy Wax at the podium. Not debating labor law. No. Ranting about woke capture.
FedSoc’s doing what it does best: troll.
Why Does Cornell FedSoc Keep Inviting Lightning Rods Like Wax?
Look, Amy Wax has a rap sheet longer than a bad first-year memo. Penn slapped her with sanctions after years of antics — white nationalism conferences, trashing Black grads (zero in top half, she claimed, baselessly), calling for fewer Asians. Academic freedom? She confuses it with podcast riffs and Wikipedia cites.
Court laughed her lawsuit out. Tenure intact. But scholarly heft? Gone.
Enter Federalist Society chapters. They’re not here for peer-reviewed papers. They’re grievance farms. Cornell’s crew invites her, dodges normal event rules — notice dropped at 2 a.m., who checks email then? Students fume. Native American Law Students Association blasts it.
“The purpose of her platform is not to engage in any search for truth, but rather to advocate openly for a return to explicit racialized caste systems,” a statement sent from NALSA to the law school student body on March 26 reads.
Spot on. Ola Eboda, BLSA VP (personal capacity, he notes), calls it identity desecration. Free inquiry has limits, he says. Damn right.
Wax? Hour-long tirade on diversity cults killing truth. Moderated by William Jacobson — yes, that guy. The Heat reunion of white grievance: DeNiro-Pacino, but swap mobsters for blog rants.
Jacobson’s track record? Freaked when profs called out Ivy racism tropes — after his ‘wilding’ headline, echoing Central Park Five horrors. Then whined about race-bias classes. ABA-mandated, mind you.
And here’s my unique angle: this mirrors 1960s Berkeley Free Speech Movement — flipped. Back then, students fought admin censorship. Now? FedSoc plays reverse Heckler’s Veto. Invite toxin, bait protests, cry foul when deans warn or cops show. Predictable script. Yale did it too. No rocks thrown, just statements, walkouts, tough Q&A. Duncan at Stanford? Tantrum city.
Cornell cops up, dean threatens repercussions. Mission accomplished: victim narrative locked.
Is ‘Academic Freedom’ Code for Anything Goes?
Short answer: in FedSoc world, yes.
Wax isn’t adding to discourse. She’s cargo-culting scholarship. Penn tolerated years — Ruger filed complaint. Finally.
But chapters? They thrive on this. Small crowds (20 heads), big backlash. PR win for martyrs.
Corporate hype parallel? Tech bros peddle ‘disruption’ while sowing chaos. FedSoc sells ‘originalism’ but delivers rage-bait. Spin: free speech heroes. Reality: division merchants.
Students notice procedural dodges. Biglaw hopefuls, pulling 2 a.m. all-nighters? Nah. Smells fishy.
What next? More invites, more letters, more cops. Law schools fracture further. Bold prediction: by 2026, ABA cracks down on ‘trolling events’ as professionalism violations. Ethics codes evolve — or should.
But.
FedSoc won’t stop. It’s their brand. Grift over growth.
Why Law Students Are Fed Up — And Rightly So
NALSA, BLSA voices ring true. This isn’t inquiry. It’s indoctrination via inverse.
Eboda: “There is a horizon where free inquiry ends.”
Wax crosses it. Regularly.
Jacobson moderates? Ironic. His blog’s the blueprint.
Attendees: 20. Protests: louder. Impact? Law deans sweat diversity rankings. Firms watch — they hire these kids.
Unique insight twist: remember McCarthyism? HUAC hunted reds under ‘patriotism.’ Flip it — today’s hunters wear suits, wield mics, claim victimhood. Same playbook, swapped targets.
Cornell Sun nails it: self-perpetuating unis hooked on diversity cult. Wax’s data? Decade-plus, she says. But her delivery? Rant.
FedSoc’s game: provoke, polarize, prevail in courts of PR.
Tired yet?
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Frequently Asked Questions
What did Amy Wax say at Cornell Law?
She railed against ‘woke ideology’ capturing universities, calling them obsessed with diversity over truth — moderated by Prof. William Jacobson to a crowd of about 20.
Why did students protest Amy Wax’s Federalist Society talk?
Groups like NALSA condemned her for promoting racial caste systems, not truth-seeking; individuals like Ola Eboda called it identity desecration.
Is Federalist Society inviting controversial speakers a pattern?
Yes — Yale hosted Wax before; they use ‘reverse Heckler’s Veto’ to invite provocateurs, bait backlash, and claim free speech victories.
