Comments on: Discriminating Against Conservatives in Law Firm Hiring:Is It Wrong?

By: guest

guest — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 12:14:02 +0000

Wow, flame war.
If commentators like 366 are lawyers, I pity their clients. Anyone so willing to make blithe judgments about a wide swath of political opinion–I somehow doubt that anyone who was on the Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy doesn’t believe in science, for example–is dumber than a sack of hammers.

By: guest

guest — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 11:17:55 +0000

What would seem fair is to disclose where that character works so we can decide if such as they deserve our custom.

By: guest

guest — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 05:40:33 +0000

Politics is personal. Politics is the relation between people, which is the true definition of the business of the polis. It changes how you view and practice the law and it changes how you view and interact with your fellow man. Would you hire a member of the nazi party? Of course not as being a fascists, a political ideology, DOES in fact make you a bad person.
It’s absurd to say politics doesn’t effect their job performance.

By: guest

guest — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 15:58:06 +0000

Fed Soc has legitimate debates on current issues, between people who actually know the issues. The ACS has someone read party line fluff.
As 417 said, the ACS (Liberal professor’s counterpoint to the supposed Fed Soc boogieman) is the real detriment to your resume, not Fed Soc.

By: guest

guest — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 13:47:45 +0000

After having attended the ACS convention this past summer, I can say that, as a progressive, if I am ever in a position to give recommendations, I will count ACS membership against applicants. I know that legal academia lags behind regular academia, but the lack of ingenuity and intellectual engagement I witnessed there was just appalling.

By: guest

guest — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 17:08:01 +0000

414 is right they could never fly planes, become billionaires, president, governor, become doctors oh and most importantly in this country they could never play quarterback or coach a super bowl champion or build prosperous businesses. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulsa_race_riot
Don’t thump your chests so-called liberals.
Joke:
Do you know the difference between a elite northern liberal and southern working-class conservative. A northern liberal would vote a black man president but move if a black family moved on his street.
My agenda:
Gay Marriage – I don’t care one way or the other
Abortion – A woman’s business up to 28th week of pregnancy
Economy – Fix it, low taxes. I favor estate tax.
Iraq, Iran, etc – Do not send soldiers but if they get out of line bomb them to the stone age.
Affirmative Action – If you are actually disadvantaged ok , race alone not enough. Private schools it is their business.
Global Warming – likely bullsh&t or at least wildly exaggerated
What am I liberal ? Conservative? Neither I think for myself

By: guest

guest — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 06:40:16 +0000

412- “My analysis is generalized”
It’s also wrong. Sorry, it just is. The “lockstep” thing is just complete bullshit.
“The federalists themselves will admit that disagreement fractionalizes and cripples the left.”
Not as a matter of policy, but it’s a statement I’d agree with and I’d imagine many others in the group would. Now, if I were a person on the left, I’d take that statement as a rebuke and a troubling sign about the strength and merit of liberal ideas. You, as a liberal, apparently take it as a warning and a call to close ranks. This is the kind of thinking that makes me laugh most whenever liberals describe themselves as in any way intellectual.

By: guest

guest — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 01:29:46 +0000

407, perhaps blacks feel marginalized because they know that as a group they can never achieve what whites can. They’re racist out of resentment.

By: guest

guest — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 01:23:21 +0000

“Federalist” is code for dick-sucking closet-case child molester republican shitbag.
We don’t hire them, nor blacks or women.
Republicans don’t deserve jobs, they forfeited their rights 2000-2008.

By: guest

guest — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 23:38:07 +0000

You are incredibly naive if you actually think the federalists are non-political. The presence of a small amount of dissension on a single social issue does not make a strong case for diversity. The federalists are lock step on almost every economic issue and think that their economic conservatism is actually not harmful to the masses because there are no “political roadblocks.” My analysis is generalized, I know, but I’ll leave you with this: The federalists themselves will admit that disagreement fractionalizes and cripples the left. There is more thought a vibrancy there than you suggest. Anyway clearly you sympathize with the right on this blog, that’s to be expected from elitists.