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Emory Law kicks out 1L after ‘hateful and harassing emails and social media posts’
The Emory University School of Law has expelled a first-year student, who earlier this year was banned from campus because of “concerning social media posts.” (Photo by Daniel Mayer, CC-BY-SA-3.0, via Wikimedia Commons)
The Emory University School of Law has expelled a first-year student, who earlier this year was banned from campus because of “concerning social media posts,” according to Law.com.
Known as Milano Wayne, the student had repeatedly made social media posts that in referred to the “feminist war on men and the Constitution,” before the accounts were scrubbed in recent weeks, according to the story.
According to an April 23 email to the Emory community from Badia Ahad, the provost and executive vice president for academic affairs at Emory University, and Richard Freer, the law school’s dean, “a member of the law school community
behind a “series of hateful and harassing emails and social media posts,” is “no longer associated with the university” following a “thorough review conducted in accordance with Emory University’s established policies and procedures,” according to Law.com, adding that the university will provide “heightened security” for the remainder of the semester.
In a Dec. 27 LinkedIn post, a profile with the name Milano Wayne wrote, “[Reflections of an aspiring rape defense attorney] women lie about rape to, inter alia, 1) advance feminism and its causes, 2) get sole custody, and 3) attain upward social mobility.
“Women who lie about rape should be put on a rape accuser registry,” the post continued. “I dream of the day I get to tear apart purported rape victims on cross-examination in defense of my accused clients.”
According to the Law.com, he earlier claimed that a woman made false allegations against him.
Since then, numerous students have raised concerns over Wayne, who has continued to make offensive remarks about Black people, feminists and transgender people.
In a Feb. 23 email obtained by Law.com, Wayne referred to a political speech in which he said he came out to his classmates as “yellow-to-white transracial.”
“As part of my race change, I legally changed my last name from Wang to Wayne,” he wrote.
“On some level, I migrated to MAGA to give back to my community and friends who form the base of the MAGAverse,” he continued in that email, according to the Law.com. “But there is also a part of me that listened to Trump’s speech in which he said ‘I am your retribution’ and grasped at the most certain way I can legally hurt the Blacks, feminists and transgenders who hurt me is by reelecting Trump.”
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