Disenchanted Liberal
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Problem Child
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Welcome to real life.
Conservatives don't have a monopoly on racism, and liberals don't have a monopoly on compassion. Giving anyone preferential treatment on the sole basis of race is wrong.
Now you understand from personal experience why most Americans are against quota and preferential treatment.
[Edited by Problem Child on 04-29-2001 at 09:49 AM]
Conservatives don't have a monopoly on racism, and liberals don't have a monopoly on compassion. Giving anyone preferential treatment on the sole basis of race is wrong.
Now you understand from personal experience why most Americans are against quota and preferential treatment.
[Edited by Problem Child on 04-29-2001 at 09:49 AM]
lavender said:
Sadly this is the way reality has come to us in the newest millen., but take heart it gets much worse before it gets even an incling better. Here's a little song I sing myself when everything I thought I had figured out isn't so. Maybe it will cheer you up as well.
I was driving on the freeway in the fast lane
with a rabid wolverine in my underwear
when suddenly a guy behind me in the back seat
popped right up and cupped his hands across my eyes
I guessed, "Is it Uncle Frank or Cousin Louie?
Is it Bob or Joe or Walter?
Could it be Bill or Jim or Ed or Bernie or Steve?"
I probably would have kept on guessing but about that time we crashed into the truck
And as I'm laying bleeding there on the asphalt
finally I recognize the face of my hibachi dealer
who takes off his prosthetic lips and tells me
Everything you know is wrong
Black is white, up is down and short is long
And everything you thought was just so important doesn't matter
Everything you know is wrong
Just forget the words and sing along
All you need to understand is
Everything you know is wrong
I was walkin' to the kitchen for some Golden Grahams
when I accidentally stepped into an alternate dimension
and soon I was abducted by some aliens from space
who kinda looked like Jamie Farr
They sucked out my internal organs
and they took some polaroids and said I was a darn good sport
and as a way of saying thank you
they offered to transport me back to any point in history that I would care to go
And so I had them send me back to last Thursday night
so I could pay my phone bill on time
Just then the floating disembodied head of Colonel Sanders started yelling
Everything you know is wrong
Black is white, up is down and short is long
And everything you thought was just so important doesn't matter
Everything you know is wrong
Just forget the words and sing along
All you need to understand is
Everything you know is wrong
I was just about to mail a letter to my evil twin
when I got a nasty papercut
and, well, to make a long story short
it got infected and I died
so now I'm up in heaven with
St. Peter by the pearly gates
and it's obvious he doesn't like the Nehru jacket that I'm wearing
He tells me that they've got a dress code
Well, he lets me into heaven anyway
but I get the room next to the noisy ice machine
for all eternity
and every day he runs by screaming
Everything you know is wrong
Black is white, up is down and short is long
And everything you used to think was so important
Doesn't really matter anymore because the simple fact remains that
Everything you know is wrong
Just forget the words and sing along
All you need to understand is
Everything you know is wrong
Everything you know is wrong
DarlingBri
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lavender...
I'm so sorry you didn't get the fellowship you were after, for such a crummy reason
But I agree... welcome to the real world (and I don't mean that in a patronising way, sorry). All your life you will face being turned down for things you should not be turned down for for crummy reasons, from jobs to bank loans. It IS reality.
But, if it makes you feel any better, Miss Fellowship will be turned down for something she *is* qualified for, for an equally crummy reason, at some later point.
It's just the way it is. It sucks, but it kind of evens out the more often you go 'round the block, at least in my experience.
--Bri
I'm so sorry you didn't get the fellowship you were after, for such a crummy reason
But I agree... welcome to the real world (and I don't mean that in a patronising way, sorry). All your life you will face being turned down for things you should not be turned down for for crummy reasons, from jobs to bank loans. It IS reality.
But, if it makes you feel any better, Miss Fellowship will be turned down for something she *is* qualified for, for an equally crummy reason, at some later point.
It's just the way it is. It sucks, but it kind of evens out the more often you go 'round the block, at least in my experience.
--Bri
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lavender said:
That's probably why you were so stunned to find out that people use "the race card" in unethical ways.
Don't worry, it only gets worse from here on out. The lying, the cheating, voter machines that don't work...Oy vey!
DarlingBri
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lavender said:
OH! Texas! You should have said!
I'm staying far from that one
CreamyLady
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Oh, life sucks at times.
However, you knew that the first thing you'd lose in law school was idealism. Heck, somewhere in pre-school it might have been explained to you that life was Not Fair.
Realistically, you'd be better off right now taking one of those good jobs, and donating your spare time (when you had some) for pro bono work in immigration law for your local bar association or at the INS. It isn't as prestigious as the fellowship, no doubt, and there will no money at all involved in it. You will, however, be giving something back to the community.
I'm sorry it happened, though. That kind of thing hurts, and it does thing to the self-image.
However, you knew that the first thing you'd lose in law school was idealism. Heck, somewhere in pre-school it might have been explained to you that life was Not Fair.
Realistically, you'd be better off right now taking one of those good jobs, and donating your spare time (when you had some) for pro bono work in immigration law for your local bar association or at the INS. It isn't as prestigious as the fellowship, no doubt, and there will no money at all involved in it. You will, however, be giving something back to the community.
I'm sorry it happened, though. That kind of thing hurts, and it does thing to the self-image.
Andra_Jenny
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The real world workplace will be even harsher in terms of who-gets-what. When there are limited resources with copetition foe those resources, people will resort to the most devious of ploys. It will be hard to be very idealistic again until you have made you fortune. Then you can go wildly liberal again. So rejoice, you have only X number of years to go as a conservative, the X depending on how ruthless and cunning you can be.
AJ
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Maybe you should take a different perspective on this, lavender.
Unless law school has changed significantly since I went there, law students are the most competitive bunch of over-achievers you ever don't want to be around. Why should it surprise you that one of your classmates played, as you put it, "the race card" to get something she wanted? There is so much vying to pad resumes, raise grades and beat one another out for class rank that nothing is beyond some people.
I actually knew one dolt who used to pick out the people he thought were his competition, then call them anonymously in the middle of the night before a big exam, just to throw them off balance.
Don't let what happens in law school throw you for a loop. It's a pretty weird environment, a hothouse for pampered exotic flowers who can't stand the thought that they are anything less than fabulous. Eventually, what goes around comes around.
Unless law school has changed significantly since I went there, law students are the most competitive bunch of over-achievers you ever don't want to be around. Why should it surprise you that one of your classmates played, as you put it, "the race card" to get something she wanted? There is so much vying to pad resumes, raise grades and beat one another out for class rank that nothing is beyond some people.
I actually knew one dolt who used to pick out the people he thought were his competition, then call them anonymously in the middle of the night before a big exam, just to throw them off balance.
Don't let what happens in law school throw you for a loop. It's a pretty weird environment, a hothouse for pampered exotic flowers who can't stand the thought that they are anything less than fabulous. Eventually, what goes around comes around.
cymbidia
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While you're finding and playing your fail-proof winning card, babes, remember that, in the end, you get what you give.lavender said:
People lie and cheat and steal. Always have. Always will. You gotta consistently ask yourself if whatever it is you're going after is worth the erosion of your own personal morals and self-worth before you, too, play that winning card and do your own brand of lying, cheating, and stealing.
"Of the good in you I can speak, but not of the evil.
For what is evil but good tortured by its own hunger and thirst?
Verily when good is hungry it seeks food even in dark caves, and when it thirsts, it drinks even of dead waters.
You are good when you are one with yourself.
Yet when you are not one with yourself you are not evil.
For a divided house is not a den of thieves; it is only a divided house.
And a ship without rudder may wander aimlessly among perilous isles yet sink not to the bottom.
You are good when you strive to give of yourself.
Yet you are not evil when you seek gain for yourself."
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I'll respect your wish to let this drop, lavender, but I'd be an insult to the profession if I didn't re-direct just once...
Please don't misunderstand me. I am no advocate of the blood-and-guts method of getting ahead, in law school or anywhere else. It's just so common there that you ought not to let it get you down.
Frankly, I think your law school experience will be much more rewarding and less stressful if you let the shit flow around you and make your own way. Do the best you can and don't worry about anybody else. In the long run, the gunners, grade-hogs and class rank climbers won't matter any more to you than that annoying kid in junior high who did all the extra-credit math problems.
Please don't misunderstand me. I am no advocate of the blood-and-guts method of getting ahead, in law school or anywhere else. It's just so common there that you ought not to let it get you down.
Frankly, I think your law school experience will be much more rewarding and less stressful if you let the shit flow around you and make your own way. Do the best you can and don't worry about anybody else. In the long run, the gunners, grade-hogs and class rank climbers won't matter any more to you than that annoying kid in junior high who did all the extra-credit math problems.
