There is a piece to be written on the pernicious influence Gertrude Himmelfarb has had on how Brooks, Douthat & Co. understand poverty.
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Imagine relying on an intellectual history of slave south, with no social context. You'd learn that the slaves were happy & grateful.
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Hannah More, who is key figure in forming Himmelfarb/Brooks/Douthat worldview, was a particularly absurd & dishonest writer.
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@HeerJeet I don't know how anyone who has actually worked w/ the poor could hold the ideas Brooks, Douthat & Co have abt the poorThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@HeerJeet "People who are rich find it hard to understand the behaviour of poor people." Theodore Schultz on this http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/economic-sciences/laureates/1979/schultz-lecture.html …Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@HeerJeet Heh oh man. Almost perfectly isomorphic: sex workers' take on people trying to Rescue them.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@LoveLifeLitGod@jlupf Audience for her pseudo-ballads was meant to be poor, to judge by distribution and stories in ballads. - Show replies
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@HeerJeet Documentation of this contesting by the poor themselves? -
@LoveLifeLitGod An unpublished paper by my wife. I can ask her if she wants to send it to you. - Show replies
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