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[โ€“] barrbaric@hexbear.net 9 points 5 days ago (1 children)

The "lawyers are bad people" joke was a trope from the 80s to the 2000s. IIRC there's a citations-needed episode about how that kind of rhetoric was pushed by megacorps who wanted to discourage "frivolous lawsuits", like the woman who got 3rd degree burns from mcdonalds coffee.

there's been quite a few periods in time where lawyers were particularly unpopular and mocked. most of the people involved in Watergate were lawyers, so lawyers popularity dropped massively when that hit, and they were ridiculed by all kinds of media.