All you fellow licensed lawyers spitting out this BS about stop asking for diploma privilege and its fine to take the bar in person rn or its fine to take it online or suck it up buttercup... y'all are spewing mad BS and I'm calling you on it.

You know DAMN well that, if in their shoes, you'd be just as up in arms as c/o 2020. And if you wouldn't be then you're hardly the advocate you should be or likely claim to be.

Are you staying home rn and avoiding crowds and potential covid hotspots for your health and the health of your family? Yeah? So tell me you'd quietly, without protest, willingly walk your ass into an in person bar exam this week.

Did you ever have a software glitch in LS? During the bar? Examsoft fail 2014, anyone?

Do you need to stretch or pee or twirl your hair or touch your face or look away from your screen more than once every 3 hours?

Have you had a kid or dog or spouse interrupt a zoom meeting or hearing during this pandemic? Had your internet go out unexpectedly?

... yeah? Then the online bar exam option won't work for you either.

Do you remember how torturous the months between May and September/October were, when you didn't know if you'd be a lawyer soon or not? When your job and your finances and your SANITY all hinged on passing that stupid exam?

That uncertainty was hell and don't you dare claim otherwise.

Now remember all that, and put yourself in their shoes.

Diploma privilege is the only appropriate option.

While we're at it, dont tell me the barzam is a test of minimum competency. I know amazing lawyers who failed it first try. 98% of us competent lawyers couldn't pass that shit today if we tried. You know what makes a competent lawyer? Supervision & practice. C/o 2020 can do that

This thread brought to you by bourbon and a general intolerance for hypocritical pretentious BS that our profession apparently brings out in many of us lately.