Sunday, March 03, 2013

Atrios:
The Worst Person In the world
Robert Huber.
At the link:
Philadelphia Magazine just published an article by Robert Huber titled "Being white in Philly: In a city that is largely poor and segregated white people have become afraid to say anything at all about race. Here's what's not being said."
I'll point this out again and again.
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Atrios, a day later. The Missing Empathy Gene

Atrios (see above): "While I think quite often concerns about urban gentrification are a bit misplaced, an exception to that is when the poor get priced out of areas with access to decent mass transit."

The difference between oblivious contempt and condescension. But of course condescension is intellectually justified.

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