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is lsat racist?

Post by yoiav » Tue Jun 29, 2010 5:10 pm

i had a thought.
it would seem to me to be practically impossible (especially after the whole fields mess-up) that for someone to whom english is not their first language to do well on the lsat. the logical reasoning especially. ergo, the practice of law has essentially whittled out most minorities!

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Post by D. H2Oman » Tue Jun 29, 2010 5:11 pm

yoiav wrote:i had a thought.
it would seem to me to be practically impossible (especially after the whole fields mess-up) that for someone to whom english is not their first language to do well on the lsat. the logical reasoning especially. ergo, the practice of law has essentially whittled out most minorities!
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Re: is lsat racist?

Post by mallard » Tue Jun 29, 2010 5:12 pm

Well, law school is in English, as is most legal practice that deals with American law.

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Re: is lsat racist?

Post by daesonesb » Tue Jun 29, 2010 5:13 pm

OH NO YOU DIDN"T!

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Re: is lsat racist?

Post by kalvano » Tue Jun 29, 2010 5:13 pm

yoiav wrote:i had a thought.
it would seem to me to be practically impossible (especially after the whole fields mess-up) that for someone to whom english is not their first language to do well on the lsat. the logical reasoning especially. ergo, the practice of law has essentially whittled out most minorities!

Black people don't speak English as a first language?

News to me.

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Re: is lsat racist?

Post by Mr. Matlock » Tue Jun 29, 2010 5:14 pm

yoiav wrote:i had a thought.
it would seem to me to be practically impossible (especially after the whole fields mess-up) that for someone to whom english is not their first language to do well on the lsat. the logical reasoning especially. ergo, the practice of law has essentially whittled out most minorities!
How often do you have thoughts?

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Re: is lsat racist?

Post by truffleshuffle » Tue Jun 29, 2010 5:16 pm

kalvano wrote:
yoiav wrote:i had a thought.
it would seem to me to be practically impossible (especially after the whole fields mess-up) that for someone to whom english is not their first language to do well on the lsat. the logical reasoning especially. ergo, the practice of law has essentially whittled out most minorities!

Black people don't speak English as a first language?

News to me.
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Re: is lsat racist?

Post by Pearalegal » Tue Jun 29, 2010 5:16 pm

yoiav wrote:i had a thought.
it would seem to me to be practically impossible (especially after the whole fields mess-up) that for someone to whom english is not their first language to do well on the lsat. the logical reasoning especially. ergo, the practice of law has essentially whittled out most minorities!

I don't think this is true. If your grip on English isn't strong enough to carry you through the admissions test, you're probably going to be in trouble in law school. The law is full of dense, largely irritating, convoluted and tricky phrases in English. That's a fact, and not a racist one.

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Re: is lsat racist?

Post by luhrenzo » Tue Jun 29, 2010 5:17 pm

Mr. Matlock wrote:
yoiav wrote:i had a thought.
it would seem to me to be practically impossible (especially after the whole fields mess-up) that for someone to whom english is not their first language to do well on the lsat. the logical reasoning especially. ergo, the practice of law has essentially whittled out most minorities!
How often do you have thoughts?
hopefully not often

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Re: is lsat racist?

Post by MTal » Tue Jun 29, 2010 5:17 pm

Racism is, by definition, anything which a minority does worse in than the majority.

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Re: is lsat racist?

Post by SwollenMonkey » Tue Jun 29, 2010 5:17 pm

yoiav wrote:i had a thought.
it would seem to me to be practically impossible (especially after the whole fields mess-up) that for someone to whom english is not their first language to do well on the lsat. the logical reasoning especially. ergo, the practice of law has essentially whittled out most minorities!
Racist in that it is a live entity in the form of a standardized test and discriminates against the human race by shape-shifting and catering its questions and answers to the color of the examinee's skin taking it on test day -- then it is racist.

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Re: is lsat racist?

Post by SwollenMonkey » Tue Jun 29, 2010 5:20 pm

yoiav wrote:i had a thought.
it would seem to me to be practically impossible (especially after the whole fields mess-up) that for someone to whom english is not their first language to do well on the lsat. the logical reasoning especially. ergo, the practice of law has essentially whittled out most minorities!

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Re: is lsat racist?

Post by daesonesb » Tue Jun 29, 2010 5:22 pm

MTal wrote:Racism is, by definition, anything which a minority does worse in than the majority.
Dude, you are really annoying.

Do you just wait for a topic about race to come up and post that?

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Re: is lsat racist?

Post by RPK34 » Tue Jun 29, 2010 5:23 pm

The LSAT isn't racist. Some of its best friends are black.

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Re: is lsat racist?

Post by kalvano » Tue Jun 29, 2010 5:24 pm

RPK34 wrote:The LSAT isn't racist. Some of its best friends are black.

You can't be racist if you know and associate with black people.

Common white devil knowledge.

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Re: is lsat racist?

Post by lmi » Tue Jun 29, 2010 5:24 pm

MTal wrote:Racism is, by definition, anything which a minority does worse in than the majority.
that is not the definition of racism. what i think the OP means to ask is 'is the lsat biased'?

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Re: is lsat racist?

Post by SwollenMonkey » Tue Jun 29, 2010 5:25 pm

daesonesb wrote:
MTal wrote:Racism is, by definition, anything which a minority does worse in than the majority.
Dude, you are really annoying.

Do you just wait for a topic about race to come up and post that?
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Re: is lsat racist?

Post by luhrenzo » Tue Jun 29, 2010 5:27 pm

daesonesb wrote:
MTal wrote:Racism is, by definition, anything which a minority does worse in than the majority.
Dude, you are really annoying.

Do you just wait for a topic about race to come up and post that?
haha

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Re: is lsat racist?

Post by merichard87 » Tue Jun 29, 2010 5:28 pm

I'm quite offended that you think black people or mexican americans or any other minority can't speak english well enough to do well on the lsat. If anything the lsat is biased against those who come from low socio-economic levels and are probably not given the best educations. Yes this is typically minority students but no race is not the prereq.

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Re: is lsat racist?

Post by hiromoto45 » Tue Jun 29, 2010 5:28 pm

MTal wrote:Racism is, by definition, anything which a minority does worse in than the majority.
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Re: is lsat racist?

Post by 09042014 » Tue Jun 29, 2010 5:30 pm

The statistics don't show that LSAT is biased against minorities.

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Re: is lsat racist?

Post by kalvano » Tue Jun 29, 2010 5:30 pm

merichard87 wrote:I'm quite offended that you think black people or mexican americans or any other minority can't speak english well enough to do well on the lsat. If anything the lsat is biased against those who come from low socio-economic levels and are probably not given the best educations. Yes this is typically minority students but no race is not the prereq.

So the negro community is frowning on his shenanigans?

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Re: is lsat racist?

Post by honestabe84 » Tue Jun 29, 2010 5:31 pm

Why are you all feeding this troll. I think it's pretty clear that OP does not believe this. He's bored and wants to create a race argument.

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Re: is lsat racist?

Post by 09042014 » Tue Jun 29, 2010 5:31 pm

merichard87 wrote:I'm quite offended that you think black people or mexican americans or any other minority can't speak english well enough to do well on the lsat. If anything the lsat is biased against those who come from low socio-economic levels and are probably not given the best educations. Yes this is typically minority students but no race is not the prereq.
Do you know if there is data to show that the LSAT is biased against people of lower socioeconomic levels.

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