I'm starting to think it's intellectual malpractice to write/talk about privilege, class, oppression, etc. without revealing at least 2 generations of family and educational history. There is a suspicious pattern of 2nd/3rd generation privilege joining the privilege commentariat.
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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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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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