2. In his first memoirs Making It (1967) the most vivid character is Mrs. K, the name Podhoretz gives to high school teacher/mentor
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13. Again, what's interesting is wilful ignorance. 1943 Podhoretz was super-bright teen dreaming of Ivy Leagues & thought blacks had power?
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this was before the army was integrated (!)
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This is so dumb! He got picked on by boys that were bigger, stronger, faster then he was. This happens in every school everywhere
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He just wasn't smart enough to see he would have been picked on at an all white school or an all Jewish school.
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Also, this exact argument has been frequently used against Jews. "Jews I knew were rich & ruthless, how could they be victims?"
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Whites (like me) are unfairly given much in our culture. But we're not unique in our blindness to the privilege of good fortune.
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This comes across as synonymous with Sorkin's "I can't be privileged; women persecuted me as a young man" comment recently.
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For a smarter writer, that paragraph would be followed with "Then I grew up and kmew better." But Norman never stopped being 12.
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