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Excellent summary, but what makes the article more insidious is that
the faux populism sounds somewhat genuine at first before he sucks the
reader in to what Sun Eagle described.
On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 9:17 AM, Sun Eagle <suneagl...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Murray doesn't see a "class divide" at all. He sees a cultural divide, and
> for him culture stems from genetics, not economics. After all, we're talking
> about the same Charles Murray who co-authored THE BELL CURVE, of which Bob
> Herbert of the NEW YORK TIMES wrote, "It's just a fancy way of calling me a
> nigger." All of this is highly unoriginal: the "culture of poverty" thesis,
> nicked from Oscar Lewis, is here applied to working-class whites; the
> "intelligent white elites interbreed, reproduce and vote liberal" is straight
> out of David Brooks's BOBOS IN PARADISE. What Murray is shilling is a faux
> populist "let's return to family values{which, of course, never existed in
> the first place} recipe for fixing what's wrong with rich white people: they
> need to get out of the house more.
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Michael Perelman
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