Diversity and Social Justice Lecture Series: Jeannie Suk Gersen, "Hiding in Plain Sight"

[@tricky2055]

If these students freeze while being called on buy a law school professor or might feel scared, how the hell are they going to arguing in court with a hostile judge interrupting them and firing questions? I seldom spoke up and volunteered an answer in college and in law school. I found myself as a 1L 22 years ago scared to death of public speaking. My first year professors cold calling, making us stand up and brief cases, and using the Socratic method taught me to think on my feat, learn public speaking, and most importantly, made me read the material and be prepared for class everyday (in college I crammed a week or two before finals). There were several female students and students of color in all of my classes. I had male and female professors, white professors and black professors. Hell, my UCC professor was from freaking Ghana and had a very thick accent. However, I learned to understand him clearly and he was a brilliant professor. The idea that law schools are mostly white males in 2019 is nonsense.

[@rhondadejean]

yes, it does, agree, she is droning on and on and on and on. there were many times i did not care what classmate said in law school, but it is a great method.

[@rociohuarotte8644]

She is right about diversity in personalities. The idea is how youuu going to treat these settings and combined them with the law;!!!

[@hongkong7742]

Her nonverbal communication lead me to believe the audience seemed over critical, and a victim like she mentioned.

[@tricky2055]

Watch that movie The Paper Chase. First year white males are just as traumatized by the Socratic method. It all depends on how the professor uses it in class. Some intimidate the hell out of you, but most use it as a friendly dialog. Also, mostly women offered answers and spoke up in many of my classes. One female spoke up an absurdly amount of time. She was nicknamed “The Tortfeasor” by another lady in our class.

[@wink3319]

By calling language violence, higher education became impossible. Actually, any education or any meaningful discussion became impossible. And it happens first at the Ivy League Schools. They still have a great reputation that helps getting their students a good carrier. But they are just capitalizing on what they did in the past rather than what they do now.

[@SunSunSunn]

And you're a guy who doesn't know the difference between a carrier and a career.

[@김소연-n6q]

왕 좋다 ㅎㅎI can not help but guess how hard a 6-year-old immigrant who can not speak English would become Harvard Tenure. I think Professor Suk is great. Thanks to this kind of content, I am eager to study English so I have the desire to see more lectures and interviews.

[@prajottambe369]

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[@schappiness]

an amazing and eloquent professor, and speaker. Harvard is doing something right.

[@mujaku]

The Socratic method specifically applies to the teaching of philosophy - not law. The Socratic method according to Plato: ". . .does not at all admit of verbal expression like other studies, but as a result of continued application to the subject itself and communion therewith, it is brought to birth in the soul on a sudden, as light that is kindled by a leaping spark, and thereafter it nourishes itself." Today, law schools are going down the destructive path of indoctrinating their students; turning them into Neo-Marxist social justice warriors which is not at all about justice but, instead, is a will-to-power. It is trying to turn Western civilization and its institutions into a criminal enterprise and the white male into the equivalent of Nazis.

[@DavidWalker-rt6pf]

That's an interesting idea. So, have you watched the above video yet? What did you think?

[@hassansalih3661]

All the problems were due to the special memory background and also the memory of others in society because dealings and transactions are not specific to humans only, but to others. I think that the next era will be better because of the Internet. The color of thinking and discussion has become loud and clear, and the solutions will be clear and abstract. Thank you

[@danpeitange2471]

If you want to know the truth of comfort women, read one of the following: 1) “Inconvenient and Uncomfortable” (by Marshall Wordsworh) 2) “Wartime Military Records on Comfort Women” (by Archie Miyamoto) 3) “The Comfort Women” (by C Sarah Soh)

[@genericereal]

Mate, Soh's book completely contradicts your other two books, which advances a narrative that the comfort women were just prostitutes (a narrative which has been torn apart piece by piece by historians around the world during the Ramseyer controversy). Soh's main point is to focus on those evil elements within Korean society who conspired with the Japanese, but she also explains how this was in conjunction with the Japanese imperial bureaucracy. Koreans are extremely aware that certain members of their society collaborated with the Japanese--in fact, many wanted to conduct purges of collaborators until the Americans stepped in to assume administrative control of South Korea. Such purges did happen in North Korea, though.

[@jamesduggan7200]

As JSG describes Harvard introduced the Socratic method over 100 years ago, when the classes were all men. It is reasonable to argue that it best suits young white men. However, it is essential for 1Ls to trust the institution and reason that certainly their clever arguments have been anticipated and considered. Trust is a valuable asset.

[@jamesduggan7200]

@j808 idk I didn't interpret it that way. I saw a young woman frightened, prolly scared she would be one of those on the left and right who don't make it through the three years. You have to trust your instructors, even if they frighten you.

[@jamesduggan7200]

@j808 think the issue here is how law is taught rather than by whom it is received. IMO the young woman has chosen a line of attack against the Socratic Method that has a logical chance of success. It doesn't mean she's racist; it means only she feels that the gender/race argument is best way of demonstrating that she's thought about the problem. However, the faculty has thought about it too, and has seen many frightened students. In their wisdom they decided to use the traditional method, and if it's what they have to offer then to thrive she must learn to trust and validate the school's approach to initiating young lawyers into the study of law.

[@jamesduggan7200]

@j808 ha! if it meant the difference between winning and losing I'd use a race-based argument - anyway, good chatting with you, thx

[@joelcoley2606]

@@jamesduggan7200 Frightened is not speaking your mind because someone like her will destroy your life because she disagrees with you.

[@xinem1593]

notice this is posted in 2017, who’s here 2021

[@효동이-y6p]

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[@maryleene5431]

Her voice is shaky...

[@효동이-y6p]

In friendship, by Law

[@ray-hj1do]

thank you lessons

[@hongkong7742]

great content, great job. kerp up the good work!

[@DrJams]

Wokery and exclusion

[@rhondadejean]

so all of this to basically say, males will always run the show in a classroom, socratic/egalitarian/co-ed whatever, the number of words used to come to this well known conclusion is exhausting, stopped at 21:08

[@vaultsjan]

One should be not able to sue teacher/lecturer for teaching, lecturing.

[@효동이-y6p]

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[@효동이-y6p]

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[@점점-y4x]

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[@eqapo]

Don't get me wrong this is an amazingly delicate and finessed lecture, and Professor Gerson is doing God's work. But it pains me to see a lack of basic psychological concepts being employed here to help ground the discussion. Notions from counseling like exposure therapy and developmental theory

[@jcorey333]

This seems like a leftist professor I respect. Good job.

[@효동이-y6p]

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[@shreddedlettuce5901]

"Um", she can't give a speech. "Um", she's all over the place, and I can't take her seriously. "Um", I expected more out of Harvard: I am sourly disappointed.

[@uncletony6210]

just a nervous habit she's probably unaware of. try listening to "what" she's saying, rather than "how" she's saying it.

[@shreddedlettuce5901]

+Uncle Tony I respect your comment, and giving her the benefit of the doubt. Although, she is a law professor; I have a hard time taking her seriously if he she's expected to produce lawyers who have to present themselves in a courtroom but, I will say she does get better along with an ego boost from the audience's approval.

[@DavidWalker-rt6pf]

I imagine things were better back when you went to Harvard Law.

[@JeanneCassidy]

i agree with Uncle Tony. listen to what she is saying instead of how she is saying. she speaks well and i love the contents she deliver. i'm taking her seriously. if you just focus on how "um" annoys you, you won't get the point. if you want to get the point, put efforts to understand her speech as an audience. it's a mutual responsibility.

[@JeanneCassidy]

@@shreddedlettuce5901 being a law professor does not mean that you can't produce "um" and producing "um" disqualifies you. also you assume that her backchanneling is consistent in situations where she present herself in a courtroom, just because you think she produces "um" a lot in this particular video, but that may not be true, as I watched another video where she appears and i barely found her saying "um" plus you haven't seen her how she performs in the courtroom.

[@flyassbj]

She's a tenured professor of LAW and she is shaking while talking to an audience?..Need to work on your public speaking, Jeannie. Maybe consider going to a law school? lol

[@idkwhattoname3781]

😂 mind ur business

[@trojanusc2376]

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[@alaskafast87]

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[@민솜-q8p]

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