In Defense of Amy Wax’s Defense of Bourgeois Values

Re:In Defense of Amy Wax’s Defense of Bourgeois Values by cortesoft on Wednesday September 06, 2017 @06:39PM (#15187715)

This is spot on; cultures don't exist in a vacuum. How much of the success of the 'bourgeois culture' of the 1950s was due to the exploitation of other cultures?

Some things are zero-sum games, or at least don't scale to everyone getting the same benefit.

I guess zero-sum is not the correct term; there ARE ways we can improve the sum total quality of life in our country and planet, but we have to really think about what it would mean as the plan scales to everyone.

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Re:In Defense of Amy Wax’s Defense of Bourgeois Values by weberc2 on Thursday September 07, 2017 @10:09AM (#15191963)

While I'm inclined to think that personal choices are a more powerful predictor of outcomes than race, I agree that we don't understand cultural dynamics well enough. I think this is all the more reason we should pause before accusing someone of white supremacism, etc.

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