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> Wealthy black people are worse off than poor white people. Citation desperately needed.
https://equityhealthj.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12...
The difference in health insurance coverage between whites and blacks is 4 percentage points. The difference in health insurance coverage between high and low income households is 10 percentage points.
>Surveys show that majorities of African-Americans, Californians, Democrats and Hispanics all oppose the use of race in college admissions (and in other areas). This was surprising to me.
Why? Nobody wants to think their success was the result of an unfair arbitrary advantage.
Steve Bannon actually explains this quite well in a PBS Frontline interview
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=pm5xxlajTW0
It’s infuriating to constantly have the Economist pushing the idea “the country is racist” or “so and so is racist” for many years now. Only to point out what most people know - a poor person in west Virginia is likely to be white, and have more in common with a poor black person from DC than a wealthy white person from DC.
LMAO at these journalists pretending they're so surprised to find this. As if they had no hand in creating this environment... and as if this wasn't the whole point to begin with. The upper class owns journalism and this state of affairs was very much the goal.
There's a hilarious book by Paul Fussell titled Class: A Guide Through the American Status System He closes by positing that university intellectuals are above the whole mess ...
That is a very disingenuous if not flat out incorrect summary of what he said.
That may be one group of people who might be outside of “this mess” and in his category X, but I don’t think that university intellectuals are categorically in class X.
For folks who are interested in a more contemporary class summary, I recommend Michael O’Church’s version:
https://indiepf.com/michael-o-churchs-theory-of-3-class-ladd...
LMAO at these journalists pretending they're so surprised to find this. As if they had no hand in creating this environment... and as if this wasn't the whole point to begin with. The upper class owns journalism and this state of affairs was very much the goal.
furthermore they focused on race specifically because dividing Americans on class never failed repeatedly.
Perhaps the current events have strangled these opportunities for enough people so class can now be used to divide the population against itself?
LMAO at these journalists pretending they're so surprised to find this. As if they had no hand in creating this environment... and as if this wasn't the whole point to begin with. The upper class owns journalism and this state of affairs was very much the goal.
Agreed. A better article title would be: "American Media is Focused On Everything But What They Should Be (And Are Paid Well For It)" This is yet another example of how many of the elites live in a bubble. Well educated, yet oh so ignorant.
If you could capture the public's attention and make tons of money focusing on class, someone would do it and dominate discourse. Maybe not existing institutions, but certainly there's nothing preventing someone else from taking to the field. Indeed, there is no shortage of media that do focus on class issues, but they are invariably small & marginalized.
Media will literally eat poop in exchange for attention and the wealth and influence that comes with it. Pretending that the reason they're not talking about class is because of some misguided focus of those in the industry is absurd.
It's just... if you don't pretend, then you have to place the blame elsewhere, and nobody wants to.
LMAO at these journalists pretending they're so surprised to find this. As if they had no hand in creating this environment... and as if this wasn't the whole point to begin with. The upper class owns journalism and this state of affairs was very much the goal.
lmao @ Economist not crediting the author in the article.
I’m pretty sure The Economist never attributes an author in their articles. The author is supposed to be “The Economist”
It makes somewhat of a sense if you’re trying to disconnect the message from the speaker.