Will Brad be resigning?
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Will a rich white man in a position of power and (somewhat) safety willingly resign?
Maybe but I wouldn't bet on it.
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A6, at this point i’m starting you get a kick out of making sweeping generalizations and unsupported assumptions rather than engaging actual points.
Im sure you’ll find it hard to believe, but I hardly spend much of my time arguing about, much less “obsessing over,” race. The ONLY reason we’re even having this exchange rn is because you decided to deny what I took to be a pretty obvious, non-controversial point about the interplay of race, wealth, and power in this country.
You don’t need to adopt “structural racism” as a framework to see this, because I’m making an incredibly narrow point (which if you’d pause to engage rather than making assumptions, you’d have recognized). From the founding of the country through today, power in the US has been overwhelmingly concentrated in the hands of wealthy white men running wealthy white institutions. are we really going to say this patently obvious fact isnt the case?
They’ve largely held the keys to political, economic, and professional power for essential all of the country’s history. That context matters when talking about who tends to be insulated when controversy hits.
Biglaw is a good example. Firms are still overwhelmingly white at the top, something like 90%+ of partners are white (compared to like 2-3% Black partners). Look mane, that’s just the reality. When wealthy, powerful, white men run wealthy, powerful, white institutions, it’s hardly radical to observe that wealthy, powerful, white men generally more protected than people without those attributes.
To me what you’ve done with your ridiculous narrative that im obsessing over race is akin to me standing on a beach in August, saying “it’s hot,” and then being told that bringing up the heat means I must be obsessed with the weather. Nah, I’m responding to someone pretending something plainly observable isn’t there.
If you don’t want to engage that point, cool. What’s not cool is reverting to archetypes and vibes, making assumptions about my character/personality, or pathologizing my mental state. I could just as easily have done that to you throughout this exchange. I haven’t, because it would be unfair.
Disagree if you want. Just disagree with the argument, not a caricature of the person making it. Or better yet, let’s just agree to disagree and move on because I’m sure we both have better things to do than talk past a stranger on an anonymous forum. After all, I do need to get back to my unhappy, race-obsessed life 😉
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This isn’t something he or the firm can just move on from. And if that’s what leadership tries to do, shame on any lawyer or client that chooses to associate with such a morally bankrupt institution.
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I’d be (pleasantly) surprised if he resigned.
His term should be up soon anyway. Barshay is probably thrilled (as long we P,W doesn’t lose his M&A clients over this)
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