Heckman's thing is basically emphasising the importance of what you might call moral development (contra two other major narratives about causes of outcome differentials, IQ and oppression) in some ways this is the most appealing story one could tell
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african americans aren't doing badly because there are systematic and invariant differences in ability, and white people dont hate them in any way that matters what a nice story!
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i will not be discussing the relative merits of these stories and will take a moment to point at my pinned tweethttps://twitter.com/eigenrobot/status/967114911401652225?s=19 …
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what dawned on me fairly quickly as Heckman went along was that in fact this is at Least as dark as the other stories and possibly moreso
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the first issue is probably well covered but it runs roughly "well what you're more or less saying is that black people are terrible parents and communities, utterly failing to raise their children" good luck with that implicit messaging
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the second is that all of the policy solutions are unspeakably horrifying Heckman goes on and on about how valuable a good mother is to a child, how this work is underappreciated lets suppose this is true what do you suggest we do? find new, better mothers for black kids?
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very quickly this seems to run into horrific state interventions and speaking of that let me point you to the track record of the state on surrogate childrearinghttps://twitter.com/eigenrobot/status/1328922229438959616?s=19 …
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anyway i ended up less optimistic about solving achievement gaps than i was when I started
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Brotherbot it's 5:50am during the holiday szn and you have a beautiful wife why have you just listened to a podcast go snuggle
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friday night woooooo (shes asleep im joining her in a minute)
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