Middlebury Shouts Down Charles Murray

City Journal ^ | 3/4/17 | Magnet

[pabianice]

"...White Americans have fractured into two distinct classes, Murray argues. There are the Middlebury kids and their ilk: moneyed, well-credentialed (if ill-educated), and brought up by parents who arranged their playdates, soccer games, SAT tutors, summer “enrichment” travel programs, and résumé-building community “service” activities. These kids belong to a culture that values career, hard work at your job (if not much creativity at it), finding a mate with the same background and staying married to her or him, and bringing up your children with equal care. By contrast, there are the high-school grads or dropouts, whose low-skilled jobs have vanished, who either never marry or get divorced—producing carelessly brought-up broods of children in either case—who have gotten hooked by the millions on prescription pain-killers, whose health is poor, and whose lives are short..."

[miss marmelstein]

Having spent years of my working life with the people who gave their kids SAT tutors, I’m starting to like the ne-er-do-wells!

[econjack]

In truth, many Americans, not just Murray’s poor whites, have lost patience with people who don’t respect the reverence for freedom of conscience, thought, and speech on which America was founded.

I think my biggest argument with liberals is twofold: 1) they assume they know what's best for everyone and try to administer accordingly, and 2) they want someone else to assume responsibility and pay for everything. Those idiots still believe in a free lunch and that taking away from productive people and giving it to the unproductive is a good way to run a country. I disagree and vote to reflect that tenet.

[ImJustAnotherOkie]

White America acting like Black America.

[SharpRightTurn]

“the Middlebury kids and their ilk: moneyed, well-credentialed (if ill-educated)”

I love it. Charles Murray bump.

Too bad the hardened left snowflakes were not able to tolerate free speech. They might have learned something.

[Jim Noble]

When Charles Murray fed Jason Richwine to the wolves, did he REALLY think they would thank him for it?

When Charles Murray came out as #NeverTrump, did he imagine that they would not come for him some day?

[Tax-chick]

Good article.

[Tax-chick]

I remember two salient traits of the majority of students in those days. One was their extraordinary intellectual laziness and lack of curiosity, especially infuriating because so many were such intelligent kids. The other was their immense privilege.

I notice this about many people who have a good deal of formal schooling, as well as those who do not. (Keep in mind that the author is talking about people who are now around 60 years old.)

They don't know a lot of stuff, because they don't read. They don't care about learning. They don't stay up all night learning about the latest discoveries in South American archaeology or the trends in antibiotic-resistant disease or reading 19th-century novels.

I can't imagine being those people.

[IrishBrigade]

They don’t stay up all night learning about the latest discoveries in South American archaeology or the trends in antibiotic-resistant disease or reading 19th-century novels.
I can’t imagine being those people.

virtue signaling is not a virtue...

[aquila48]

Regarding Trump, Murray like Levin, misses the forest for the trees. They get so caught up with how he says things that they miss what he’s saying.

It’s like Yogi Berra saying “That place is so crowded, nobody goes there anymore” We all know what he means except the myopic parsers of sentences.

Trump is the Yogi of politics.