Matthies? Didn't this just happen last week in SFLSD? And it was pointed out to you that while you feel like the Lone Ranger, the people whose schools you denigrate are not the posters who make asinine comments a la wiimote? So maybe the shotgun approach, wherein you spray everyone who goes to schools that the prestige-whores like with your joking/whatever vitriol, isn't necessarily hitting the right targets, in that it's hitting all the students at those schools, including the ones who aren't fucktard douchebags like wiimote et al?
I say this with love, because I know that you/your school/your choices get a lot of poo on the board/internet/etc as a whole. But...it's not me, or Cady, or tm, etc, who are dishing out the poo... And I don't think we particularly turn a blind eye to it, either. Maybe you disagree. Entirely possible. I don't know.
I suppose it may be relevant that I do not know the law and am screwed for the Bar, on account of all my exams talk about how to rewrite the 4th Amendment and/or what System Justification Theory has to do with tort law, inasmuch as truth is a defense to the "defeat w/ actual legal questions" accusation. But no matter.
Dash,
I agree with you that my poking fun at X or Y school is hitting, and I think I see now, hurting, unintended bystanders. But I have never, in any seriousness personally denigrated you, Cady or TM, nor your accomplishments.
Nor have I stood by on the sidelines when any of you have been attacked for any reason. But I can’t help but see this thread as indicative of an extremely prevalent trend on this board. That is its OK, either through direct action or silence to make fun of schools, to have as the standard response “that’s why you got to X, or good luck at Y” and then turn the tables in the sprit of satire, and have people say its different when I do it.
Call a spade a spade, its sucks when you’re the target of anyone’s jokes. I understand that, I agree with that, I know I am doing that when I do what I do. But I don’t do it with mall intent, and maybe my methods go misunderstood by everyone but me. But you can’t, I can’t, help but see a double standard here. An almost universal acceptance, either by participation or silence, of the status quo. Maybe you don’t see it as clearly as I do, maybe I am seeing it more than I should. But look at the regular posters, who still posts here from lower ranked schools? How many posters have been driven off, I get the PMs, thanks for your advice by I’m not going to post on LSD any more because of all the vitriol. I’ve gotten dozens of them over the years.
Like it or not, intentionally or not, LSD is unwelcoming to people who don’t fit the mold, and it re-enforces that when people don’t make waves. I sometimes make waves, and those waves sometimes hurt people, and for that I am sorry. But I can’t help but think we would not be having this conversation if I was trashing TTTs. No one here would be offended, but save me and a few others, its certainly would not have garnered the attention it has, and I doubt you are TM would come in to voice your displeasure. Not, of course,
because you condone that behavior, but because as happens every day on here it goes unnoticed by those not targeted. Its seems its only noticed by the magority, when they are the target.
And that I see has part of the problem, and where I see the double standard. No, you don’t trash schools, TM does not trash schools, lots of people don’t but they don’t stay anything about it either. Its goes un noticed because it does not affect them personally, but it does effect a lot of people, people who don’t stay on LSD. Not at least until I turn the tables, then its noticeable. Well its noticeable all over this board if you just look for it. Its noticeable, and in my view well tolerated, to the point that its driving [people away who could really use the advice here.
Its not top law schools, its not T14 law schools, its law school discussion, but its not open equally to everyone. There is an unwritten, but re-enforced code, stay within that code and your fine, no one will complain, step out of that code, even if its to try and point out something obvious to you and others in your position see on a daily basis and there is a backlash. No one likes to be the but of the joke, but it sure seems its more OK for some people to be the but of the joke than others here. Sometimes I think you need to put the shoe on the other foot, maybe this thread did that in the wrong way, but it is no different than what 100s of posters see here everyday. Point that out, bring it to the surface and people start getting upset.
Rightfully so I guess. I’m sorry if I personally offended anyone, that was never my intent, I have a pretty fierce self deprecating sense of humor, I forget that not everyone has that, and some people may think I am honestly making fun of them rather than trying to be sarcastic, for that I apologize. I don’t mean to belittle anyone accomplishments, the hard work they have done, or do, or the hard work they will have to do. There is no one on this thread that I think is stupid or undeserving of anything they have earned. Nor do I believe you have it any easier than anyone else. I’m sorry if I upset anyone. I guess I am as guilty as that of what I seek to prevent.