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I think this is a key motivational paragraph from the article... "The students are certainly correct that claims by a professor about the value of bourgeois cu
by jxramos 9y ago
I think this is a key motivational paragraph from the article...
"The students are certainly correct that claims by a professor about the value of bourgeois culture could be misused by racists to say that one race is inherently superior to another. But does that make any discussion of cultural differences taboo? Does that make Wax a white supremacist for saying that culture matters for poverty-related outcomes, that not all cultures are equally good for escaping poverty, and that the 1950s American “bourgeois cultural script” was particularly good for that purpose? No, and here’s why."