The City University of New York (<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/city-university-of-new-york-cuny">CUNY</a>) removed an article on its website about a Hunter College graduate because she had worked on <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/johnny-depp">Johnny Depp’s</a> legal team in his defamation lawsuit against his ex-wife Amber Heard.
Yarelyn Mena graduated from Hunter College, part of New York’s public college system, in 2015 and is an associate attorney at Brown Rudnick LLP. At 29, she was also the younger lawyer on Depp’s legal team.
“I worked with the team on the opening and the closing and was the master of the facts of all the evidence,” Mena said in the now-deleted article. “If someone needed pictures or text messages, I would look them up and assist everyone as we went along.”
But because she worked in defense of a man who had been accused of domestic violence, CUNY removed the article celebrating one of its graduates. A <a href="https://www1.cuny.edu/mu/cunyverse/2022/08/03/this-cuny-grad-was-the-youngest-lawyer-to-serve-on-johnny-depps-legal-team/">link</a> to the article now includes the following statement:
<blockquote>We appreciate everyone who shared their concerns about an article in our newsletter featuring a recent CUNY graduate who worked on Johnny Depp’s legal team. We understand the strong negative emotions this article elicited and apologize for publishing the item. We have removed it from our CUNYverse blog. The article was not meant to convey support for Mr. Depp, implicitly or otherwise, or to call into question any allegations that were made by Amber Heard. Domestic violence is a serious issue in our society and we regret any pain this article may have caused.</blockquote>
Brooklyn College professor K.C. Johnson noted the school’s removal on Twitter, explaining that Mena is the daughter of two immigrants from the Dominican Republic. Johnson also explained that the deleted article contained advice for students “who might want a future in law, but was removed, it seems, because of protests about the CUNY grad&#8217;s client.”
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More from the memory-holed article&#8211;which is filled with tips for other CUNY students who might want a future in law, but was removed, it seems, because of protests about the CUNY grad&#8217;s client. <a href="https://t.co/LLqXRvMhrU">pic.twitter.com/LLqXRvMhrU</a>
— KC Johnson (@kcjohnson9) <a href="https://twitter.com/kcjohnson9/status/1555354954977648640?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 5, 2022</a></blockquote>
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CUNY’s removal of the article and statement is all the more curious because Depp won his defamation case against Heard and showed evidence that he was the victim of domestic violence at the hands of his ex-wife. As The Daily Wire reported in June, Depp was awarded a total of $15 million in monetary damages, while Heard was awarded $2 million for her countersuit. The counterclaim that Heard won related to a statement from one of Depp’s attorneys, not Depp himself. Following the award, the judge noted that Virginia law caps punitive damages at $350,000, meaning Depp was awarded $10.35 million for a total of $8 million after removing Heard’s damages.

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University Removes Article About Alumna Because She Worked On Johnny Depp’s Legal Team

CUNY Removes Article About Alumna Because She Worked On Johnny Depp's Legal Team

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Corey Robin, an anti-conservative political science professor at Brooklyn College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York (CUNY), released his most recent rant against all things American this week, emphasizing that he &#8220;hate[s] America.&#8221;
&#8220;This is the real problem with hoppy craft beer in America: like everything else in this country, it&#8217;s too much,&#8221; Robin wrote in an excerpt posted to Twitter. Robin, a professor known for his regular rants against the American &#8220;<a href="http://www.salon.com/2015/06/21/the_racist_disease_we_never_discuss_dylann_roof_over_policing_and_the_real_story_about_safety_in_america/">racist disease</a>&#8221;, complained that unlike countries such as Germany and Italy, the United States is too extravagant- presumably because of its &#8220;supremacist&#8221; mentality.
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My rant against microbreweries, craft beer, and America. Prompted by this article. <a href="https://t.co/r4bZ2fQaWM">https://t.co/r4bZ2fQaWM</a> <a href="https://t.co/j0k4IVHNvS">pic.twitter.com/j0k4IVHNvS</a>
&#8212; corey robin (@CoreyRobin) <a href="https://twitter.com/CoreyRobin/status/684231929437237248">January 5, 2016</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;This is all my way of saying: I hate craft beer, I hate home-brewed beer, I hate American coffee,&#8221; he concluded. &#8220;Let&#8217;s face it: I hate America.&#8221; Except for Broadway and The Carpenters, he adds. Duh.
On other occasions, Robin demonstrated a strong distaste for Zionism, capitalism, and a slew of Republican public figures such as Sarah Palin and Glenn Beck.
In July 2014, Robin was <a href="http://www.tabletmag.com/scroll/180812/24-arrested-in-protest-against-israels-gaza-campaign">arrested</a> for clashing with police at an anti-Israel rally in Midtown, New York. When asked whether that was his first time in jail, Robin <a href="https://twitter.com/CoreyRobin/status/494326343627051008">responded</a> that he was arrested before but never &#8220;for Palestine.&#8221;
Just earlier this week, Robin contended Zionist &#8216;racism&#8217; was far worse than Jim Crow laws.
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Zionists are right: comparisons to Jim Crow are unfair. At least blacks in South got a seat at the back of the bus. <a href="https://t.co/ONVOZK6979">https://t.co/ONVOZK6979</a>
&#8212; corey robin (@CoreyRobin) <a href="https://twitter.com/CoreyRobin/status/684412823494078464">January 5, 2016</a></blockquote>
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In August 2014, Robin called <a href="http://coreyrobin.com/2014/08/01/capitalism-and-slavery/">capitalism</a> a &#8220;massive process of ego formation&#8221; to which he claimed American slavery was central.
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&#8220;Let&#8217;s face it: I hate America.&#8221;
Corey Robin
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In <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0199793743/thedaical-20">The Reactionary Mind: Conservatism From Edmund Burke to Sarah Palin</a>, a book he wrote in 2012 attacking conservatives, Robin attempted to dub Sarah Palin as an &#8220;immoderate&#8221; by connecting her to Edmund Burke.
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While the conservative theorist claims for his tradition the mantle of prudence and moderation, there is a not-so-subterranean strain of imprudence and moderation running through that tradition&#8211; a strain that, however counterintuitive it seems, connects Sarah Palin to Edmund Burke.
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In another section of his book, Robin described his idea of what conservatism is:
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For that is what conservatism is: a meditation on&#8211; and theoretical rendition of&#8211; the felt experience of having power, seeing it threatened, and trying to win it back.
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