I couldn't read the entire article because I refuse to pay The Atlantic for anything. I think John is using his own family experience as both a child and a parent to say that there are some Black kids whose experience is similar enough to the white kids with whom they attend school that they should be judged exactly the same--also the kid a few shows ago who was confused, "Am I oppressed?" But there are probably some other middle-class Black kids who don't have family networks that know a lot about the college application process (or even who will say to them, "Ta-Nehisi. You're not going to 13th grade." It was a great line on the part of Coates, Sr., what can I say?) who don't know what their grades and test scores would get them into even if affirmative action didn't exist. Other kids may be treated identically with poor Black kids by the schools they attend for a whole host of reasons.
Can't you simply click on the "Read ->" just under "An guest essay by John McWhorter" and just above the number of comments and the new comment window? When I do that, I can scroll down to the text of the essay. No Atlantic involved at all.
Ah, my mistake. Rothstein's piece was a link too far for me. I, too, find the assumption that people will be subbed to all these different sources endlessly frustrating. My nemesis is the WSJ's firewall, though its crossword puzzle section—recycled LA Times fare—is readily accessible.
All these subscriptions and the prices they are asking are one of my triggers, so here I go again.
You used to be able to subscribe to online journals (anything from say WSJ to Gray Zone to Reason and everything in between) for around $50/yr and get access to a variety of commentors and people actually doing journalist work.
Now everyone's off on Substack going solo and asking the same price (or more) to read their commentary on the passing scene. Sorry, I have a budget to spread around, and most of you ain't getting' a piece. And you don't need a PhD in economics like Glenn to know that I'm not the only creature in existence with a "budget constraint", however high or low it might be. In fact, every creature that has ever crawled out of the ooze has one.
So most of these people will fail to draw many subscribers, at least at these rates. They remind me of the kids whose career plan is to be a rapper or a professional athlete. Most will never be heard from.*
(*Unless, for example, as in the case of one of the former, they die under a police officer's knee.)
Reminds me. Let me know if and when any of my links dead end into a sub required no-go. If so, I'll see if I can find an alternative non-sub required source. Hard to tell whether it's a "protected" piece or not when you're already subbed to the site. (This should be a feature sites put in place to distinguish the two types of material.)
I couldn't read the entire article because I refuse to pay The Atlantic for anything. I think John is using his own family experience as both a child and a parent to say that there are some Black kids whose experience is similar enough to the white kids with whom they attend school that they should be judged exactly the same--also the kid a few shows ago who was confused, "Am I oppressed?" But there are probably some other middle-class Black kids who don't have family networks that know a lot about the college application process (or even who will say to them, "Ta-Nehisi. You're not going to 13th grade." It was a great line on the part of Coates, Sr., what can I say?) who don't know what their grades and test scores would get them into even if affirmative action didn't exist. Other kids may be treated identically with poor Black kids by the schools they attend for a whole host of reasons.
Can't you simply click on the "Read ->" just under "An guest essay by John McWhorter" and just above the number of comments and the new comment window? When I do that, I can scroll down to the text of the essay. No Atlantic involved at all.
The Rothstein essay he's responding to is in the Atlantic so I don't know how Rothstein supported anything.
Ah, my mistake. Rothstein's piece was a link too far for me. I, too, find the assumption that people will be subbed to all these different sources endlessly frustrating. My nemesis is the WSJ's firewall, though its crossword puzzle section—recycled LA Times fare—is readily accessible.
It bites my butt when WSJ posts an article on LI and still hides it behind a paywall. Poor marketing strategy.
I am also defeated by the WSJ paywall but Apple News runs some of the stories anyway.
All these subscriptions and the prices they are asking are one of my triggers, so here I go again.
You used to be able to subscribe to online journals (anything from say WSJ to Gray Zone to Reason and everything in between) for around $50/yr and get access to a variety of commentors and people actually doing journalist work.
Now everyone's off on Substack going solo and asking the same price (or more) to read their commentary on the passing scene. Sorry, I have a budget to spread around, and most of you ain't getting' a piece. And you don't need a PhD in economics like Glenn to know that I'm not the only creature in existence with a "budget constraint", however high or low it might be. In fact, every creature that has ever crawled out of the ooze has one.
So most of these people will fail to draw many subscribers, at least at these rates. They remind me of the kids whose career plan is to be a rapper or a professional athlete. Most will never be heard from.*
(*Unless, for example, as in the case of one of the former, they die under a police officer's knee.)
Reminds me. Let me know if and when any of my links dead end into a sub required no-go. If so, I'll see if I can find an alternative non-sub required source. Hard to tell whether it's a "protected" piece or not when you're already subbed to the site. (This should be a feature sites put in place to distinguish the two types of material.)
I'll try and remember.