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status451.com
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| | | | | A week or two ago I wrote up a post on Tumblr, entitled "What I Believe". It was my attempt at a work-in-progress accounting of my politics, philosophy, and worldview. I'm cross-posting it here. Hopefully I can cajole the other authors into writing similar posts, and we can compare and contrast our differences. That would... | |
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blogs.swarthmore.edu
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| | | | | [AI summary] The text presents a detailed critique of the arguments made by scholars like Daniel Moynihan and Charles Murray, who have attributed poverty and dysfunction among certain racial and ethnic groups in the United States to cultural factors. The author challenges these views by highlighting the diversity and complexity of African and African diasporic societies, as well as the historical and cultural contexts of Latin American and Mexican-American communities. The author argues that these groups cannot be characterized as uniformly collectivist, authoritarian, or lacking in individual ambition, and that such portrayals are based on flawed and often racist assumptions. The critique extends to the broader concept of 'cultural difference' as a way to e... | |
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scalingthemountain6.wordpress.com
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| | | | | I saw some clicks coming in from a certain Substack, and I was flattered to see NightRoller recommended me in a comment. I read the article and it awakened many dormant threads within me, and I was struck with enormous sympathy with the author, who I'll address as SD. Despite our superficial tribal differences (me... | |
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nymag.com
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| | | All the norms the president has already destroyed. | ||
