I'm very interested in hearing from people who have opinions shaped by a 2-3 generations of hard-won upward mobility. I'm less interested in what the grand-daughter of a 1950s industrial tycoon whose parents were beltway lawyers has to say about these topics in the new yorker.
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I won't go so far as to say I'm not interested at all in the latter, or uncritically accepting of what the former have to say. Experience doesn't necessarily translate to insight, and lack of experience doesn't preclude insight. But those are my priors...at least on those topics.
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For the record, though I rarely write/talk about these topics... basic middle-class Brahmin stock going back a couple of generations in India mouthing off here. Parents/aunts/uncles all college educated. Grandparents generation mostly not, but earned their way to home-ownership.
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Favorite hate-read genres:
Living in the city on $20/day! (and a free apartment with no student loans)
How I quit my job to chase my self-employment dreams! (no dependents and family has investors on speed dial)
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Anybody who is following their bliss supported by someone else's income. Not that they shouldn't follow their dream but please disclose before offering others advice.
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So another dimension of intersectionality?
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Disagree, that implies you’re relying on basically an appeal to authority. While personal experience is obviously relevant, the whole idea of a book is that we don’t need to rely on biography for authority, we can rely on the logic and data presented to us in long format.
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2/ the personal experience should be reflected in the text of the book, and presumably shape it. As a straw man, the color of the author’s skin is irrelevant to the validity of a table of police brutality statistics.
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I don’t think most people could answer that. I couldn’t.
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