Comments on: The Argument Against Law School Personality Cults

By: MM

Fri, 31 Jul 2020 06:08:12 +0000

I’ve read the comments on this article (including the censored ones) and NGL, some of you’ll were quite mean/ad-hom :p I don’t think ‘just graduate already megha’ conveys anything constructive except maybe to say that as an alum I should not be taking so much concern with law school culture. This piece was written for the benefit of current law schoolites and law school alum generally, many of whom continue to perpetuate LSPC’s long after they graduate, and is equally applicable to non-law school contexts. However I will consider contributing to the Alumni Newsletter next time. Also the references to ‘goddess’ were clearly self deprecatory idk how some of you’ll got the impression that I actually think of myself as a goddess, or that I actually have such a high opinion of myself given that this article indicates otherwise but ok if that’s the assessment you want to make so be it.

Moving on to the more constructive criticisms, I agree that it is a valid concern to say that ‘As someone who benefited from LSPC’s you could have avoided writing about it and waited for a non-LSPC to say the same things’. I will definitely keep that in mind. There was also a suggestion that the article had a very ‘looking down’ approach and I should have focused more on how LSPC’s affect leaders themselves. I suppose that can be the subject of a separate article about how persons who are ascribed with LSPC status often face intense imposter syndrome and inferiority complexes of their own given that the idea of ‘merit’ celebrated in law school hardly prepares you for life outside of it. Also the fact that LSPC’s are smart enough to sense the underlying resentment that many law schoolites carry towards them (as the comments on this article indicate) and it does have consequences for our mental health too. However I’m sure there are people who would have taken offense to the tenor of that as well (rich of her to criticize it after she benefited from it! Self pity max!). In conclusion, I guess you can never make everyone in law school happy :p sooo yeah

I did receive one constructive comment on the content of the article itself re how the advice about encouraging quiet friends to speak up can be taken as encouraging patronizing. I would like to clarify that I meant if somebody approaches you with an idea they want to share or an initiative they want to start, as a friend you should help them with it and talk them out of the pressure that you need a 5-page CV to do things, and you should do it out of your duty as a peer w/o expecting credit. Of course if you of your own volition go around being a white knight and telling xyz ‘why don’t you speak up more’ and bragging about it within your circles for allyship points it goes without saying that’s shitty behaviour :p

I will not be engaging more beyond this but tldr thanks for the comments, like somebody correctly pointed out, I guess the overall purpose of my article was achieved. 🙂

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By: Ex law schoolite

Fri, 31 Jul 2020 04:19:14 +0000

Going by the comments posted so far, it seems to me that every single person agreed with the substance of what she said. What remains is the debate on her right to say it. If so, I think she’s done what she set out to do, albeit to her own detriment.

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By: Former law schoolite

Thu, 30 Jul 2020 21:08:15 +0000

Dear Quirk Team,

I did not find the comment to be in violation of any terms of your comments policy. You are very quick to censor stuff which was valid. Of course it was a bit abrasive but within realm of free speech. Captures sentiment upon reading the article. You need to respect free speech and not protect those who put out half baked essays by being paternalistic just because it’s not extremely polite.

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By: Quirk

Thu, 30 Jul 2020 18:38:03 +0000

Dear Former law schoolite,

Please note that your comment has been removed as it is in violation of our comments policy.

Best,
Quirk Team

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By: Quirk

Thu, 30 Jul 2020 18:34:52 +0000

Dear A Law Schoolite,

Please note that your comment has been removed as it is in violation of our comments policy.

Best,
Quirk Team

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By: Quirk

Thu, 30 Jul 2020 18:26:41 +0000

Dear Current lawschoolite,

Please note that your comment has been partly redacted as it is in violation of our comments policy.

Best,
Quirk Team

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By: Aap gumnaam hi raho

Thu, 30 Jul 2020 17:40:23 +0000

Yeah he may have mentioned you, if you could write summaries instead of comments.

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By: Bullying alert

Thu, 30 Jul 2020 17:38:22 +0000

Has bullying in the comments section become a favourite pastime for NLS kids.

Quirk team: please take note that by allowing such comments you are encouraging and normalizing personal attack on authors. I don’t see people writing for you anytime soon, especially if it is a little different from mainstream.

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By: Lol

Thu, 30 Jul 2020 15:46:59 +0000

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अहंकारी रावण

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By: Trees are important

Thu, 30 Jul 2020 15:42:53 +0000

I don’t think these comments would be made if this was written from the perspective of a woman who has faced the pressures of living up to an LSPC and subscribed to it. To her credit, she does talk about unnecessary male opinions making her self conscious, but she seems to accept that with respect to other constructed markers of success, she has had no issues and faced no pressures. Rather, the piece reads as if she is looking down around from her privilege and commenting on the disadvantage of the culture she accepts she has benefitted from. So the criticism stands – how could she possibly know how the pressure feels when she self-identifies as a goddess?

As someone said in another quirk article, Law school needs to get rid of its white knights and learn what allyship actually means.

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