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NYT's David Brooks reaches unprecedented levels of woke in his Op-Ed
Posted on 7/12/17 at 9:17 am
Posted on 7/12/17 at 9:17 am
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Brace yourself:
So, so many layers to peel through. Insensitively invited her to an upscale delicatessen. Structural bigotry has kept this woman from learning Italian and knowing about the intricacies of salted, cured meats. And the cherry on top is, despite all of the foregoing, he tosses out "Mexican" as some cheap, easily understandable food that everyone can relate to.
Bravo.
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Over the past generation, members of the college-educated class have become amazingly good at making sure their children retain their privileged status. They have also become devastatingly good at making sure the children of other classes have limited chances to join their ranks.
How they’ve managed to do the first task — giving their own children a leg up — is pretty obvious. It’s the pediacracy, stupid. Over the past few decades, upper-middle-class Americans have embraced behavior codes that put cultivating successful children at the center of life. As soon as they get money, they turn it into investments in their kids.
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Educated parents live in neighborhoods with the best teachers, they top off their local public school budgets and they benefit from legacy admissions rules, from admissions criteria that reward kids who grow up with lots of enriching travel and from unpaid internships that lead to jobs.
It’s no wonder that 70 percent of the students in the nation’s 200 most competitive schools come from the top quarter of the income distribution. With their admissions criteria, America’s elite colleges sit atop gigantic mountains of privilege, and then with their scholarship policies they salve their consciences by offering teeny step ladders for everybody else.
Brace yourself:
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Recently I took a friend with only a high school degree to lunch. Insensitively, I led her into a gourmet sandwich shop. Suddenly I saw her face freeze up as she was confronted with sandwiches named “Padrino” and “Pomodoro” and ingredients like soppressata, capicollo and a striata baguette. I quickly asked her if she wanted to go somewhere else and she anxiously nodded yes and we ate Mexican.
So, so many layers to peel through. Insensitively invited her to an upscale delicatessen. Structural bigotry has kept this woman from learning Italian and knowing about the intricacies of salted, cured meats. And the cherry on top is, despite all of the foregoing, he tosses out "Mexican" as some cheap, easily understandable food that everyone can relate to.
Bravo.
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Posted on 7/12/17 at 9:20 am to Damone
David Brooks should move to Israel. While our country is fighting terrorism, his son was serving in the IDF.
Posted on 7/12/17 at 9:20 am to Damone
Lol, that's a nice "fit the narrative " jump....
Posted on 7/12/17 at 9:25 am to Damone
David Brooks is the absole worst. You know he left his wife of like 30 years and his kids for some research assistant, and yet he still holds himself out as some kind of expert on character and morality? He wrote a column a couple weeks ago about how fathers who leave their children make an aagonizing decision or some shite. He is truly human detritus.
Posted on 7/12/17 at 9:31 am to Damone
Best comment on NYT maybe ever:
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Recently I took a friend with doctoral degree to lunch. Insensitively I led him into a McDonalds. Suddenly I saw his face freeze up as he was confronted with menu items like "Hamburger" and "Fries" and ingredients like ketchup, mustard and a sesame seed bun. I quickly asked him if he wanted to go somewhere else and he anxiously nodded yes and we ate gluten free vegan Thai.
Posted on 7/12/17 at 9:33 am to Damone
quote:bullshite.
Over the past generation, members of the college-educated class have become amazingly good at making sure their children retain their privileged status. They have also become devastatingly good at making sure the children of other classes have limited chances to join their ranks.
Posted on 7/12/17 at 9:35 am to Taxing Authority
Actually, if you limit that comment to wealthy progressive liberals, it's pretty much accurate.
Posted on 7/12/17 at 9:35 am to Damone
He's a thoughtful guy but is there a bigger pearl-clutching ninny out there than David Brooks? I'm in my mid-40's with an advanced degree and I still have to ask what the heck ingredients are at restaurants, I don't know who David Foster Wallace is, and the only "barre" I'm familiar with is Port Barre, La. IT'S NO BIG DEAL and does NOT offer any significant obstacle to upward mobility. Some of this just isn't that important and the rest can absolutely be learned. I've learned my share over the years and the bigger point is that until recently it was absolutely assumed that someone moving up the social ladder would do so, as well. Which spoon to use for soup, when to wear a coat and tie, all that stuff. Indeed, many of the "cool kids" on the east coast actually came from the heartland and also had to learn what quinoa is. They assimilated. As usual, Brooks gropes for the fainting couch when confronted with the utterly unremarkable.
If you (not necessarily the OP) want to read an insightful account of social and cultural barriers to success, do yourself a favor and read JD Vance's Hillbilly Elegy. Spoiler alert: it's not undoing the good choices and parental zeal of the "elites," it's improving the choices and emphasizing the powerful agency of those in the middle and lower classes.
If you (not necessarily the OP) want to read an insightful account of social and cultural barriers to success, do yourself a favor and read JD Vance's Hillbilly Elegy. Spoiler alert: it's not undoing the good choices and parental zeal of the "elites," it's improving the choices and emphasizing the powerful agency of those in the middle and lower classes.
Posted on 7/12/17 at 9:37 am to Damone
So your thought about his article was that he should get more hits and views?
He accomplished his goal. He got someone ticked off and garnered more hits.
He accomplished his goal. He got someone ticked off and garnered more hits.
Posted on 7/12/17 at 9:38 am to Damone
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Posted on 7/12/17 at 9:38 am to Damone
quote:
Over the past few decades, upper-middle-class Americans have embraced behavior codes that put cultivating successful children at the center of life. As soon as they get money, they turn it into investments in their kids.
i read your OP and this and thought "oh this is one of those 'get married before you have kids' articles" and then i clicked the link and saw the title
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How We Are Ruining America
oh boy i'm going to have to take some time with this. as a great philosopher once said, "Hey! You're talking to my guy all wrong. It's the wrong tone."
Posted on 7/12/17 at 9:40 am to Damone
quote:Wait these are class markers now? You can get these in a sandwich at Jimmy John's
soppressata, capicollo
Posted on 7/12/17 at 9:40 am to Damone
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They have also become devastatingly good at making sure the children of other classes have limited chances to join their ranks.
This guy is admitting to his bubble. I know many in this current generation who are doing as well as the upper middle class despite backgrounds of lower middle and lower income class.
Posted on 7/12/17 at 9:42 am to Iosh
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Wait these are class markers now?
i don't know anymore
it's all moving so fast, these days
Posted on 7/12/17 at 9:43 am to Damone
quote:In other words feed them Mexican Food, eh David?
Over the past generation, members of the college-educated class have become amazingly good at making sure their children retain their privileged status. They have also become devastatingly good at making sure the children of other classes have limited chances to join their ranks.
Posted on 7/12/17 at 9:43 am to SlowFlowPro
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How We Are Ruining America
Yeah that's it, David. What's really wrong with you decadent haute bourgeoisie who rule over of the ruins of late republic America is your taste for pretentious sandwiches.
Posted on 7/12/17 at 9:45 am to Jake88
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This guy is admitting to his bubble. I know many in this current generation who are doing as well as the upper middle class despite backgrounds of lower middle and lower income class.
i'm still reading the article but just got to the "zoning" part and while i agree he's admitting to his bubble, it's an entirely different bubble than you're imagining. those zoning requirements (especially in the specific areas he listed) are a creation of his bubble. Republicans and libertarians aren't using zoning in areas like NYC and SF to keep out the poor
Posted on 7/12/17 at 9:45 am to Iosh
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Wait these are class markers now? You can get these in a sandwich at Jimmy John's
Yes, but the proles who eat at Jimmy Johns call the sandwich the "Vito," so they're been robbed of the cultural capital they could have by just calling it..... an Italian sandwich....
Posted on 7/12/17 at 9:48 am to Damone
Stolen from Twitter
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Recently I took a friend with only a high school degree to lunch at Blimpie. Immediately, he peed his pants. "What is 'ham'?" he pleaded with me. I quickly bought him a can of wet dog food and then we played laser tag. They should play TED talks over the loudspeakers at Walmart.
Posted on 7/12/17 at 9:50 am to Damone
I think I understand what he is saying. I wants us to understand that poor people cannot read. Because if you can read you certainly could read about these things and know what they are when you see them.
However he could have asked his high school graduate friend about Kim Kardasian and all the other pop culture ho's and his friend could have written a thesis about them.
He should get new friends who are more well read. I have a friend who did not even graduate high school. His parents died when he was a senior and left him nothing. (They were very poor). So he quit school and went to work. Today he owns his own machine shop and has about 15 employees. He is without a doubt one of the smartest people I know. He had no desire to go to college but he can build or repair just about anything. The last machine he built was something that took that blue surgical fabric that hospitals use and built a machine that he programmed and it would pull the fabric through a conveyor and into something that cut it to size, then cut the hole where the operation would be done, and hemmed the edges, then folded it, dropped it into a plastic bag that was then sealed and labeled with the bags information.
It was amazing to see it work.
Mr. Brooks has stupid friends who do not want to better themselves.
However he could have asked his high school graduate friend about Kim Kardasian and all the other pop culture ho's and his friend could have written a thesis about them.
He should get new friends who are more well read. I have a friend who did not even graduate high school. His parents died when he was a senior and left him nothing. (They were very poor). So he quit school and went to work. Today he owns his own machine shop and has about 15 employees. He is without a doubt one of the smartest people I know. He had no desire to go to college but he can build or repair just about anything. The last machine he built was something that took that blue surgical fabric that hospitals use and built a machine that he programmed and it would pull the fabric through a conveyor and into something that cut it to size, then cut the hole where the operation would be done, and hemmed the edges, then folded it, dropped it into a plastic bag that was then sealed and labeled with the bags information.
It was amazing to see it work.
Mr. Brooks has stupid friends who do not want to better themselves.
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