HeyJaredActivism Now
As a sociology professor and community organizer for over half a century, my focus has been on power relationships in society.
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Activism and Self Interest Part 2: There You Go Again (opens the original)
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“There you go again!”She was a senior high school student enrolled in my employer’s early college start program. We’ll call her Ashley. She was dynamic, beautiful, and smart as a whip. Her family, like those of her fifteen classmates, was white, Protestant, and wealthy. This was in the 1990s in the U.S. Southwest.Students received both high school and college credit for completing the class, but I was instructed to conduct it as a typical college class. Students possessed college-level academic
Activism and Self-Interest— Part 1: Kool-Aid (opens the original)
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A fairly typical conversation with well-educated activist Democrats—including scholars, lawyers, engineers, and other well-employed or comfortably retired people, mostly in their fifties and sixties — discussing why so many working-class people reject their party in favor of the opposition.They drink the Kool-Aid.And you don’t.Correct. We assess and evaluate empirical evidence, and they just believe what they’re told.I see. You select our leaders and hold them accountable, while they just worshi
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