More insights from Lawrence Mead about the differences between “the West” and “the non-West”pic.twitter.com/pdQNiB6poJ
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More insights from Lawrence Mead about the differences between “the West” and “the non-West”pic.twitter.com/pdQNiB6poJ
Even more wisdom from Lawrence Mead: “the West has simply chosen a more ambitious way of life than the non-West, where minorities originate”pic.twitter.com/Dorvfa6jw8
According to Lawrence Mead, “the West” is simply more ambitious, confident, and enterprising than “the non-West”pic.twitter.com/rkcrDDRi1m
Lawrence Mead’s coup de grace: “Today, the seriously poor are mostly blacks and Hispanics, and the main reason is cultural difference. The great fact is that these groups did not come from Europe... Their native stance toward life is much more passive than the American norm”pic.twitter.com/IekfOX8Uyk
Lawrence Mead is not some marginal academic. He was an intellectual architect of welfare reform in the 1990s. And he advised Rudy Giuliani when he was NYC mayor. (Thanks @powellnyt for reminding me of this context)pic.twitter.com/JNTw83RP3o
Postscript: NYU’s politics department, where Lawrence Mead teaches, does not currently have any Black tenured or tenure-track professors https://as.nyu.edu/politics/allpeople.html …
An open letter from academics and advocates to the editorial board of “Society,” the journal that published Lawrence Mead’s articlehttps://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfG1PPI4zzuKAU90Te7vpeZAtDMKEea1Isic2fGurjJRh6B4A/viewform …
WTH, this was written like this month. That can’t be right, right?
I had the same question 
I have so many questions. Does he even own a map? Where does he think Mexico is? Is he really arguing “slavery was actually good” in the year of our lord 2020? How do we get him fired? Just so many questions.
More importantly where does he think Texas, New Mecico, Arizona, California etc. are (& were 150 or so years ago).
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