What summer associates don’t get paid? If anything, summer associates tend to be wildly overpaid. I remember I was paid the same monthly rate as a 1st year associate to basically go to baseball games with partners and occasionally spend way too much time writing a memo on a minor point.

This is, sadly, exactly the point, though: it’s called “opportunity hoarding.” Those in power don’t want working class people to get these valuable positions; they want to give them all to family, friends, cronies—fellow upper middle class types—those who can afford to take an important, low-wage position while…

Just want to echo this.

It’s kind of pathetic. She’s a C-lister if we’re being generous so talk about delusions of grandeur.

Former Hill staffer here...

They’ve played this whole thing off as so cutesy, and the media has gobbled it up. But it reeks of excess and now I’m just generally turned off.

Easy, take 0.0001% out of the defence budget.  Or scale back Trump’s tax cut. 

I hear this. One of my big turn offs about poetry, especially from the under-30 set, is how self-involved and masturbatory it is. Your breakdown of the archetypal cliched poem is so damn on point because something like 60-75% of all the poems of peers I read in high school and college, most especially by people that…

My middle school guidance counselor said I’d never finish high school because I didn't have great grades. Not only did I finish high school AND college, but I have a graduate degree with work experience in all three branches of the federal government. I went ballistic when she and another teacher who bullied me tried…

Seriously, though. Every single change is a huge downgrade from the original, in places to the point of rendering it nonsensical. Even the moved line breaks are inferior.

Jen Kirkman posted a thread about this on Twitter the other day.

People are being willfully ignorant about this song at this point. The historical context has been explained ad nauseum re: the woman wanting to stay but being unable to say so explicitly due to social norms at the time and the man trying to give her reasons to stay so as to provide her with cover. And the line…

So basically every creative person under 30?

I’m laughing at the idea that her “in conversation with” is somehow different than “an exact rip-off of”.

I dunno, I think having the words she stole permanently tattooed on her is...

if i wrote a poem, someone plagiarized it, and then had the gd audacity to get a tattoo of my words on their body??? i’d have a very hard time being as civil as mckibbens.

I think it’s funny how all these young Jezebel writers assume without even reflecting on it, that everyone who reads this site is in their 20s. It makes me nostalgic of when I was young and thought I was the “wokest” person on the planet, when in reality I was the most self-absorbed.

Cute apologism. Meanwhile in Europe.....

Yes, there are an awful lot of words in this article, and yet they never actually form the important point, which is the one that you make here: Anti-Semitism is evil and wrong, Farrakhan is and always has been a horrible anti-Semite, and Farrakhan should thus be condemned for that.

That’s not hard to do.  

I live in Hong Kong