Double-check that your lawyer passed the bar: A test called “the bar” that is intended to gatekeep who can become a lawyer has been consistently accused of being a bar that gatekeeps who can become a lawyer. And of course: that it’s racist. It’s gaslighting. It’s girlbossing (which is a bad thing these days). So now Washington State has joined Oregon, Wisconsin, and New Hampshire in saying that the bar exam is optional. An expert tip for going forward: double-check that your lawyer passed the bar and is licensed to practice law and stuff. At this rate, medical school exams will be optional pretty soon, and then I don’t know what to tell you. Go with god. Trust your gut. Does he seem like someone competent in kidney transplants? As you move through life, learn to give quick, casual IQ tests along the way. Maybe pretend they’re just riddles, and you’re a riddle person. Wear a hat to make this more believable.
And in related news, here is the trend on high school graduation rates and SAT scores…
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My reply:
I know plenty of them: sharply critical of ‘systemic racism’ in Western culture… and silent on racism in their homes and communities. Strongly against patriarchal norms in public… and personally planning to marry a successful young man and have an expensive traditional wedding.
Ideas have consequences. Unfortunately these are NOT just status signals or cultural accessories. They have implications for policy-making and the lives of citizens, particularly poor and working class citizens. I will never stop calling out the hypocrisy of privileged and well-educated young people who publicly promote a radical program of dismantling institutions. First, dismantle your own!
John Barnett was the Boeing whistleblower. And in the heat of his damning depositions against Boeing about what he saw on the factory floor as a quality manager for the plane manufacturer, John Barnett was found dead in his truck with a pistol in his hand in the parking lot of a Holiday Inn.
Barnett had overseen the manufacturing of the 747, 767, and 777 planes, and he saw a lot: titanium slivers that weren’t being properly removed, shoddy emergency equipment, poor accounting of broken plane parts. He said that for pointing these things out, he was retaliated against and isolated. “Complaints seemed to go into a black hole.” He filed a whistleblower complaint in 2017, there are now shocking headlines about malfunctioning Boeing planes, and now the guy who was waving his arms is dead. There is definitely more to this story but what we do know is horrible: a man who was trying hard to protect people who trust that when they get on a plane they are going to get off of it in one piece is dead, under very fishy circumstances.
Also, he had allegedly told a family friend before his death that if anything happens to him, it’s not suicide.
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