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    Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet May 11

    Midge Decter was a major figure whose historical importance has been obscured for many reasons (including, ironically, a sexism she herself supported). One big achievement was she invented the whole rhetorical strategy of "making up a guy to get mad at."

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      2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet May 11

        In her book 'Liberal Parents, Radical Children" (1975) Decter used a method she called "fictionalized sociology" -- creating ideal types of bad people. In other words, "making up a guy to get mad at."pic.twitter.com/RQ2Exx9olZ

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      3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet May 11

        Me (stupid guy): Wait, you're just making up didactic & manipulative stories to describe people you hate. But these stories have neither the empathy of fiction nor the empirical grounding of journalism and scholarship. You (smart guy): Yes, I call it fictionalized sociology

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      4. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet May 11

        This whole "fictionalized sociology" is a big thing on the right. You see it in David Brooks' work ("Bobos in Paradise") and Charles Murray's ("Coming Apart"). But Decter was a pioneer. She helped create "making up a guy to get mad at."

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      1. tempus fuck it‏ @tempus_fuck_it May 11
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        Didn't Plato invent that?

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      1. Andrew Poole‏ @caribouwho May 11
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        I loved those Archie comics too! #

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      2. Bryan M. Santin‏ @BMSantin May 11
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        "Fictionalized sociology" catering to conservative outrage is a pretty good description of works by Tom Wolfe like Radical Chic & Bonfire of the Vanities...which not coincidentally National Review conservatives loved

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      3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet May 11
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        Yeah, he was the real master of the form.

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      1. Meanie-meanie, tickle a person  ❎‏ @me_knee_me_knee May 11
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        So, basically she founded the Right wing industry of straw manufacturing...

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      1. Sean Matthews‏ @Seanmatty123 May 11
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        This sounds closely related to what Robert Nozick called 'normative sociology'.

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      1. A. Simpson‏ @KuzavaCM May 12
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        There were no straw men before 1975?

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