We went on a fieldtrip to court today and the coordinator, when introducing one of the lawyers, said, “He comes from a fine lineage — his grandfather was a Supreme Court judge.”

I didn’t even try to not look embarrassed for her and, by extension, for this whole profession, where this kind of fawning elitism is so unabashed.

Update. The next morning the prof does a catch-up and the first thing she talks about is this guy’s lineage.
Oh well, at least I wasn’t the only student who wanted to scream.