Which Kind of White Supremacist Are You?
Charles Murray is a white supremacist who built his academic career on pseudoscience claiming to prove that black people are intellectually inferior. His kind - the reactionary pedant - was best described last year by Rick Perlstein.
For some reason, PBS found it worthwhile to publish a truly idiotic BuzzFeed-style quiz developed by Murray:
Slippery professional bigots like Murray get away with this kind of chicanery all the time. Murray has hoodwinked PBS into merging two distinct concepts: "the average white American" and "American culture at large." "American culture at large" actually has as much to do with the average Latino American and the average African American and the average Asian American as it does with the average white American because whiteness is not a prerequisite for representing American culture.
This quiz is part of a new subgenre of right wing propaganda that sees the stratification of the U.S. more as a function of culture and race rather than economics. The convenient fiction is also spread by other seedy characters including Hillbilly Elegy author J.D. Vance and the clownishly wimpy New York Times columnist David Brooks.
If you want to know whether you're disconnected from the average American, there's a very easy way to check. Take a look at your tax return. Then answer this three question quiz:
And remember, steer clear of Charles Murray and Just Say No to white supremacists no matter what kind of pseudoscience they attempt to use to dress up their busted old sophistries.
For some reason, PBS found it worthwhile to publish a truly idiotic BuzzFeed-style quiz developed by Murray:
Do you live in a bubble?
There exists a new upper class that’s completely disconnected from the average white American and American culture at large, argues Charles Murray, a libertarian political scientist and author.
Take this 25-question quiz, based on a similar one published in Murray’s 2012 book, “Coming Apart: The State of White America 1960-2010,” to find out just how thick your bubble is.Well, how about it? Are you disconnected from the average white American and American culture at large?
Slippery professional bigots like Murray get away with this kind of chicanery all the time. Murray has hoodwinked PBS into merging two distinct concepts: "the average white American" and "American culture at large." "American culture at large" actually has as much to do with the average Latino American and the average African American and the average Asian American as it does with the average white American because whiteness is not a prerequisite for representing American culture.
This quiz is part of a new subgenre of right wing propaganda that sees the stratification of the U.S. more as a function of culture and race rather than economics. The convenient fiction is also spread by other seedy characters including Hillbilly Elegy author J.D. Vance and the clownishly wimpy New York Times columnist David Brooks.
If you want to know whether you're disconnected from the average American, there's a very easy way to check. Take a look at your tax return. Then answer this three question quiz:
Do you make at least six figures?
Is your income is $250,000 or more?
Does your tax return show you pull down a million or more a year?Ready to check your results? That's easy too:
If you answered yes to the first question, you may be a little out of touch.
If you answered yes to the second question, you're probably more than a little out of touch.
If you answered yes to the third question, you are crazy out of touch.See, wasn't that easy? You don't need a fucking 25 question quiz to figure out that massive income inequality is making the upper class lose touch with reality.
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