Obviously the end of Jim Crow and the decline of racism is a net gain powerful enough to compensate for other erosions.
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Whites have no such leap out of subjugation, so other losses are felt more keenly.
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yes, this is
@reihan's argument. And I do mostly accept it. But the majority numbers among whites surprised me.3 replies 0 retweets 4 likes -
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Look, I really do think a lot of it is strict age-driven nostalgia. Like I can't help thinking of '90s as a golden age.
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(Which they were.)
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But as a reactionary I just, er, react to the idea that it's *obviously crazy* to prefer elements of '66 to '16.
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Esp. when the question is specifically about "people like you."
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Problem is that it's the unregulated forms of capitalism--as political economy and ideology-that exacerbate
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pretty much all of these subjective and objective indices of decline. Regulated banks and strong unions
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Or maybe people miss a top tax rate of 90%.
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Replying to @HeerJeet @DouthatNYT and
heh. WC white people want homogeneous communitarianism and they get none of that from cosmopolitan
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meritocratic capitalism.
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