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Ilya Shapiro Resigns from Georgetown Law in Scorching Letter

Months after being placed on leave at the behest of a woke mob and just days after being reinstated by administrators, Ilya Shapiro resigned from Georgetown on Monday in a scorching resignation letter that laid bare the supposedly prestigious institution’s embrace of woke identity politics. Georgetown and its Office of Institutional Diversity, Equity, and Affirmative Action (IDEAA), Shapiro wrote, “no longer stands for tolerance, respect, good faith, self-reflective learning, and generous service to others.”

“I cannot again subject my family to the public attacks on my character and livelihood that you and IDEAA have now made foreseeable, indeed inevitable,” Shapiro noted. “As a result of the hostile work environment that you and they have created, I have no choice but to resign.”

As Townhall reported in January, Shapiro who had been rece

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H/t ML.

Ilya is doing absolutely the right thing. He would be totally exposed to more woke torture if he actually took this job. He would end up spending all his time and energy defending himself. It’s a good letter.