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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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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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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Straight line from this to 'Bobo's in Paradise'.
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Yes, I was going to make that point.
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. In other words, a novel
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A bad novel.
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Somewhat curious how many pages chapter 5 went, just so I can have an accurate page count of fictionalized personal accusations.
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goes to page 248
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As seen in such classics as Sartre's "Anti-Semite and Jew" or Dorothy Thompson's "Who Goes Nazi?" in Harper's 1941 ... not always the worst of genreshttps://harpers.org/archive/1941/08/who-goes-nazi/ …
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I'm just going to say she's not in their league.
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