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I found this article in The Climax, Hampshire College’s “only news source.” I haven’t thought much about it yet, but it’s something I ought to think about.

More and more relevant information with lots of numbers from sources I know nothing about.

Walter Benn Michaels came up with the idea for his book The Trouble with Diversity when he gave a lecture to a seemingly very diverse group of a few hundred Harvard students. They “were extremely proud of their diversity,”he said, but “were completely indifferent to the one way in which they were not diverse, which is to say they all came overwhelmingly from the top 5 to 10 percent of American wealth.”

The central problem of contemporary progressive politics, according to Michaels, is that anti-racism, anti-sexism, and anti-discrimination in general have become the fundamental measures of social justice. This has happened, he said, “in a moment when actually the greatest problem in American society is not racism and it’s not sexism. The greatest problem in American society is the increasing gap between the rich and the poor.” (more…)