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    1. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 15 Mar 2015
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      3. Like not a few other listeners, I found the discussion dispiriting, despite the evident good faith & intelligence of Jon.

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    2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 15 Mar 2015
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      4. Jon's response to the "why the Canadian media is so white" question was that it was about class, not race. Media is upper class hobby.

      4 replies 9 retweets 6 likes
    3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 15 Mar 2015
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      5. That's basically a solid analysis (although glides over how race & class intersect). What was frustrating was Jon's solution: nothing

      2 replies 6 retweets 8 likes
    4. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 15 Mar 2015
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      6. Mangling Orwell, Jon basically said you can't expect factory workers to become writers & attempted remedies are just affirmative action

      2 replies 7 retweets 2 likes
    5. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 15 Mar 2015
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      7. What does Jon ignore? Long history of plebeian writers, born to working class who against the odds make literary & journalistic careers

      7 replies 6 retweets 22 likes
    6. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 15 Mar 2015
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      8. I'm talking about people like (off the top of my head) Richard Wright, James Baldwin, Alice Munro, M. Richler, Tillie Olsen, Henry Roth

      2 replies 5 retweets 17 likes
    7. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 15 Mar 2015
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      8. Is it easier to a writer if you are a landed aristocrat like Tolstoy? Sure, everything is easier if you are a landed aristocrat.

      2 replies 14 retweets 22 likes
    8. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 15 Mar 2015
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      9. But despite the huge leg-up that a Tolstoy has, somehow or other the Chekhov's of the world manage to make something of themselves.

      2 replies 5 retweets 20 likes
    9. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 15 Mar 2015
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      10. Chekhov (paraphrase): what the aristocratic writer owns as a birthright, the plebeian writer has to pay for with his/her youth.

      3 replies 18 retweets 30 likes
    10. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 15 Mar 2015
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      11. There's another thing: these systematic biases aren't set in stone, they can be challenged by human action, collective & personal.

      2 replies 8 retweets 14 likes
      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 15 Mar 2015

      12. To give a concrete example: consider the role David Carr played as mentor to many writers from non-white & non-affluent background.

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        2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 15 Mar 2015
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          13. Jelani Cobb writes about Carr's mentoring beautifully here:http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/postscript-david-carr …

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        3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 15 Mar 2015
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          14. Ta-Nehisi Coates is one of the most important magazine writers in America. But he used to be a university drop-out with scruffy resume

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