Entitled Law School Hopeful With 150 LSAT Blames Imaginary Black Person For His Rejection Letters. Deletes Twitter Account In Shame.

A lot of the discourse on affirmative motion boils all the way down to differing theories on ethical desert and entitlement. Individuals arguing towards affirmative motion usually comment that their spot has been unjustly taken by another particular person based mostly on standards that shouldn’t issue into the choice being made. As tempting as it’s to guage the philosophical deserves of the argument, generally you need to bracket all of that and stand in awe of the audacity. That is a type of instances. A legislation college hopeful took to Elon’s quickly declining in worth social media platform to offer one hell of a sizzling take. The tweet and account have since been deleted, however the web not often forgets such daring shows of foolishness:

As you’ll anticipate, issues didn’t go fairly like how the poster anticipated them to:

And whereas loads of the assaults on affirmative motion complain that factoring  range into the alternatives we make inherently makes issues worse, it goes to point out how huge the change in discourse has been:

Now could be there something inherently unsuitable with getting a 150 on the LSAT? In no way! Very like once you’re in legislation college, the bell curve exists. Not solely is someone going to get a 150 on the LSAT, most individuals will — it is pretty close to the median, after all. However to get a mean rating and blame Black folks reasonably than, I don’t know, the folks in your utility pool who scored larger than you, is a few magical considering which may recommend you aren’t actually able to assume like a lawyer — not like of us who’re perceive that components are a factor. Certain, you may have an excellent GPA, however a 3.9 from majoring in Basketweaving isn’t the identical as a 3.6 from somebody who double majored in Physics and Math. Additionally, was your private assertion any good? Did you solely apply to T14s? As a result of there may be undoubtedly some college that may have taken this particular person if the opposite elements of their utility had been as much as par. Possibly not Duke, however most likely Drake.

Chris Williams grew to become a social media supervisor and assistant editor for Above the Legislation in June 2021. Previous to becoming a member of the employees, he moonlighted as a minor Memelord™ within the Fb group Law School Memes for Edgy T14s.  He endured Missouri lengthy sufficient to graduate from Washington College in St. Louis College of Legislation. He’s a former boatbuilder who can’t swim, a published author on critical race theory, philosophy, and humor, and has a love for biking that often annoys his friends. You possibly can attain him by e-mail at cwilliams@abovethelaw.com and by tweet at @WritesForRent.