I’m old enough to remember 2,200 murders/year in New York City, most of them in minority neighborhoods. I’d tell the young ones to read a book, but they’d reach for Michelle Alexander, who skates right past that little statistic.
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Replying to @SWGoldman
Yes, that was my point. But it isn’t a great excuse. People are capable of learning about what happened a few years before they were born. I didn’t live through the massive spike in crime that began in the mid-60s, but I read about and can imagine it happening again!
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Replying to @SWGoldman @DamonLinker
I don't believe this. Unless "learn" and "significant" are being cagey.
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Replying to @SWGoldman @josephecapizzi
It depends on who we’re talking about. If you mean a random person with a high school education or less, sure. But Michelle Alexander and Ta-Nehisi Coates have had an enormous direct and indirect influence on how people in this country think about these issues. Through writing.
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Replying to @SWGoldman @josephecapizzi
Alexander’s arguments about mass incarceration barely existed 15 years ago. They are now treated as common sense by throngs of journalists, professors, and ordinary voters.
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I dunno. I definitely knew about leftist critiques of mass incarceration in late 1980s & early 1990s. But, yes, they were much more marginal then than now.
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Much, much more marginal.
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