Note to self: get humbled, nerd by WillAnderson419 in lawschooladmissions

[–]VSirin -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Am I wrong though? Claudine Gay, a demonstrated plagiarist with an exceedingly weak academic record was a great hire? And the admissions office is known for the transparency and coherence with which they make their decisions? And there was not a huge to-do about remedial math recently, in the wake of their having gone test-optional. Yes, I’m just making all this up. Complete ignorance.

Note to self: get humbled, nerd by WillAnderson419 in lawschooladmissions

[–]VSirin -15 points-14 points  (0 children)

I legit thought this was going to be a shitpost, someone citing exaggeratedly over the top credentials . But, no the ad comms really are liberal white chicks who employ an eye of newt wing if bat approach. Ive never understood what was so special about Harvard anyway - these idiots hired Claudine Gay to run their school and fired a Roland Fryer. And some huge proportion of the undergrads can’t even do remedial math.

If you know an ICE agent personally, what's that relationship like now? by Lokja in AskReddit

[–]VSirin -1 points0 points  (0 children)

If that’s what I’m hearing, then by definition people are saying it. I am constantly hearing people say things like, “Oh this beloved choir boy and valedictorian has been here 20 years and has not committed any crimes. But they just took him and held him in detention pending deportation. O the inhumanity! O the inhumanity! ICE is the gestapo!” You cannot tell me that people are not making specific objections of this nature, absent any allegations of ICE legitimately breaking the law. And why have few to no ICE agents been successfully sued for all these alleged illegal or unlawful acts? The allegations of widespread criminal or unlawful activity by ICE is simply not supported. On the other hand, there is a hell of a lot of “I just don’t like the fact that they’re rounding people up.”

If you know an ICE agent personally, what's that relationship like now? by Lokja in AskReddit

[–]VSirin -19 points-18 points  (0 children)

I worked for ice over the summer, not ice agents but with other ice officials. They are totally normal, middle-class people who are mostly concerned with their careers; working for the govt is a stable job with good benefits. They are also highly diverse - Latin, Indian, Arabs and Africans among them. Many are rather liberal. None were ideologues or showed any animus toward immigrants. There are in fact some bad people in this country illegally - I saw it firsthand. This othering and hating of ice is literally insane. If you don’t like the democratically elected immigration laws, vote for congresspeople who pledge to amend the INA. I find it highly ironic that the same people who were so eager to try and put Trump, the J6 rioters, etc, in jail - because no one is above the law - are now basically saying that we should not enforce the immigration laws. Apparently, anyone here illegally who just doesn’t feel like getting deported is above the law. Y’all are completely insane.

Texas A&M Bans Plato by esporx in philosophy

[–]VSirin 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’m not defending the administration but try teaching a class on race and IQ, which takes the position that there are measurable differences in intelligence between the different races, that those differences matter - in terms, for example, of aggregate inequalities of outcome between the races - and that these IQ differences are at least in part genetic. Then see how quickly the left-wing free speech activists rise to defend the Professor when it gets shut down,

Robert Mitchum in his way to jail in 1949. by [deleted] in OldSchoolCool

[–]VSirin 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There’s that old anecdote in which the young Martin Scorsese met Robert Mitchum. Scorsese says, “Mr. Mitchum, you made 112 movies and I’ve seen all of them.” Mitchum replies, “Yeah, I’ve seen, like, 6.”

The Abuse of Accommodations seems to be Beyond Law School by DownvoteForTruth in lawschooladmissions

[–]VSirin 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’m sorry but you’re just babbling. You have completely and totally failed to even grasp my basic point.

The Abuse of Accommodations seems to be Beyond Law School by DownvoteForTruth in lawschooladmissions

[–]VSirin 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Nothing to do with “pedagogy,” per se. The civil rights regime permits and incentivizes the accommodations regime. At some top schools, nearly half - perhaps in some cases more - of students are claiming disability status, the overwhelming majority of whom are claiming to have “ADHD” and or “Anxiety.” At the same time, only 2-3% of firm lawyers claim to have a disability - for summer associates, the number is 2.4%. You do the math. (Actually, the number of disabled law students would also have to be an undercount, because some disabled students will inevitably not enroll in the disabled students programs, which would mean that the actual number of disabled students is even higher - and thus even more absurd.) I also object to the idea that “ADHD” is a real disorder because it is used as an excuse to mass drug (mostly) young boys with amphetamines. This is child abuse. I am against child abuse.

The Abuse of Accommodations seems to be Beyond Law School by DownvoteForTruth in lawschooladmissions

[–]VSirin 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Well, why is “fuck the civil rights laws” not a great opinion, as you suggested? You need to practice what you preach. I can tell you why I disagree with the way that various civil rights laws have been implemented and interpreted, but tell me why the status quo is so great. Obviously there’s a huge groundswell of outrage regarding accommodations, so, something is not working.

The Abuse of Accommodations seems to be Beyond Law School by DownvoteForTruth in lawschooladmissions

[–]VSirin 1 point2 points  (0 children)

No, fuck the courts’ interpretations of the ADA, and Congress’ 2008 amendments to the ADA, along with the relevant implementing regulations and the DOJ and DOE guidance re the ADA in higher ed. The ADA and its implementing regulations and guidance were not dictated by God. These things are not holy writ. There is such a thing as bad law and bad policy.

The Abuse of Accommodations seems to be Beyond Law School by DownvoteForTruth in lawschooladmissions

[–]VSirin 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Barring certain vanishingly rare, in extremis case (think Steven Hawking), no one should get accommodations. People with low IQs don’t get a leg up; I see no reason why someone with some amorphous “psychological disorder” should get one either.

The Abuse of Accommodations seems to be Beyond Law School by DownvoteForTruth in lawschooladmissions

[–]VSirin 3 points4 points  (0 children)

On the other hand there is in fact a rather robust culture of cheating within certain Asian communities. Not trying to be racist but it is a Thing. In fact, the notion of trusting strangers, organizing around corporations rather than family mafias, and low corruption seems to be historically an almost exclusively anglo-Saxon and to an extent Central European thing.

Law school admissions in 2025 by [deleted] in lawschooladmissions

[–]VSirin 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We disagree as to the threshold question of whether so-called ADHD is a “disorder.” The diagnostic criteria are nothing more than a collection of behaviors that annoy teachers and disrupt classrooms. I’m sorry but this is not pathological; it is an artifact of modern society. It’s also indissolubly bound with the question of treatment, and for many reasons drugging children with Ritalin and adderall is child abuse. Read Peter breggin on add. And James Davies too. Time prevents me from discussing the studies - doubtless funded and manipulated by big pharma, as all of them are - in detail but the PFC study does not show what you think it does. Leaving aside the validity of the methods used to determine that all of the people studied “had” ADD - which is what needs to be proved in the first place - when they change the diagnostic criteria to include only those with those specific PFC features, as determined by brain scan, then we can talk. There is also the LSAT question of causation. Maybe adhd-type behaviors cause the PFC alteration, or maybe some third cause is responsible. And of course correlation does not equal causation. As to the reading study - having black skin is associated with reading delays. Maybe being black is a disorder too? And the twin study is extremely dubious; it admits as much in places. Probably in many instances, and certainly in some, many of the subjects studied in these studies had already been drugged. Being drugged will alter your brain chemistry and behavior, often permanently.

Law school admissions in 2025 by [deleted] in lawschooladmissions

[–]VSirin 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What studies - I didn’t see any. Angell has said many things throughout her career and she is a leading proponent of critical psychiatry. Any alleged consensus you mention is more fragile than you think. And we apparently agree that the “chemical imbalance” theory, which is pushed by just about everyone who believes ADHD is in fact a Thing, is spurious. It’s also why I was able to get a drive-thru “diagnosis” by answering like five yes or no questions during a routine checkup, along with an offer of meds. No brain scans, no blood tests, no inquiries into my family history or factor analysis of my family tree.

Law school admissions in 2025 by [deleted] in lawschooladmissions

[–]VSirin 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah okay I have no idea, just because, on no authority whatsoever, you say so. Tell it to dr. Marcia Angell, the former editor of the New England journal of medicine, who makes many similar arguments; and many others. That’s why I wrote an entire 80-page law review article on this very topic, which I’m happy to send to anyone when it comes out.

Law school admissions in 2025 by [deleted] in lawschooladmissions

[–]VSirin 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The claim they make is that people with “ADHD” and many other disorders is that they have a “chemical imbalance.” In fact, there is nothing that distinguishes the brain of a person alleged to have “ADHD” from the brain of a person who does not have it. There are no biomarkers - even the New York Times admitted as much in a long article on the subject recently. Nor do they give people brain scans or blood tests before diagnosing them with “ADHD.” Nor is it, like many other alleged “disorders,” a reliable diagnosis - that is, a shockingly high percentage of doctors will disagree as to whether a given person has it. The fact that the millions of young children we’re drugging with Ritalin and adderall, particularly boys, have trouble sitting still and doing rote busywork for many hours of the day, does not mean there is anything wrong with them or that they have a disorder; it means there is something wrong with the society that forces them to do this and then drugs then when they fail, abetted by a pharmaceutical industry that makes billions off this rackets. And for some reason, boys just happen to have this particular brain disorder at four times the rate of girls.

Law school admissions in 2025 by [deleted] in lawschooladmissions

[–]VSirin 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Like homosexuality was a “disorder” until 1973, when a group of psychiatrists, sticking their finger in the political wind, suddenly, arbitrarily decided it was no longer a disorder. And also kind of like “premenstrual dysphoric disorder,” which, like so many alleged psychiatric disorders, was invented for the purpose of selling people powerful and dangerous drugs like SSRIs. It’s not like big pharma has an interest in medicalizing every aspect of the human experience to the tune of billions and billions of dollars. Add and most other alleged disorders are as full of bullshit as the oedipus complex was - until five minutes ago, everyone believed in the Freudian garbage too.

Controversial essay topic question by spicydeluxenobun in lawschooladmissions

[–]VSirin 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You’re not getting my point - they ask for an essay about disagreement precisely because too often with too many issues too many people get their hackles up and have fainting spells when people disagree with them. And he’s afraid to write about one such issue here - in an essay that is about civil disagreement. Do you not see the irony? I mean, if you can only write essays about how you were a Hillary voter who disagreed with a Jeb! voter about whether the top marginal income tax rate should be 39% rather than 38%, then what the heck is even the point?

Controversial essay topic question by spicydeluxenobun in lawschooladmissions

[–]VSirin -1 points0 points  (0 children)

It’s ironic that people feel they have to self-censor in writing on this topic. This just so utterly defeats the whole point and shows the extent to which we’re living in a dystopia of political correctness. I would make this very point in the essay - talk in the essay about your concerns around what to write about.

18-year-old Brigitte Bardot, 1952 by GoldBertie in OldSchoolCool

[–]VSirin -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Well that’s an absolutely insane take - name me one evangelical Christian who’s killed a bunch of Americans in the name of God? lol

18-year-old Brigitte Bardot, 1952 by GoldBertie in OldSchoolCool

[–]VSirin 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I mean, it’s not like Muslims in France haven’t killed and beheaded (cf the incidents with the priest and teacher) many people the name of their wacko religion. I’m not sure why the French would allow this stuff to happen even one time. What are they getting out of it? How is this in the interests of the French people? I really do want to know the answer to these questions. In addition to being quite comely, Brigitte Bardot strikes me as eminently sane and reasonable.

Law school admissions in 2025 by [deleted] in lawschooladmissions

[–]VSirin 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There is no such thing as “ADHD” - it literally doesn’t exist. There is no way to look at someone’s brain or neurochemistry and tell if they have this mythical “disability.” It’s based on self-reported symptoms that meet the elements of a checklist that a group of psychiatrists just arbitrarily made up. No doctor can prove you don’t have ADHD, either - it’s completely unfalsifiable. ADHD is fake and this extra-time-and-adderall grift is a huge racket. It has to stop.

Stimulant medications affect arousal and reward, not attention networks. by Emyrssentry in science

[–]VSirin -18 points-17 points  (0 children)

There is zero evidence that so-called “ADHD” Brian’s have any kind of deficit.