Precisely! Like, he is obviously an intelligent guy and a lot of the things he says are at least SOMEWHAT true, but then other things he says are just..... Holy crap guy, take your head out of your fucking ass!

I feel like David Brooks would be Lena Dunham if he was a millennial woman. Like, they both have good intentions but the execution leaves SO MUCH to be desired, largely because I think they don’t interact with anyone outside their social bubbles (and the rare times they do, they talk/write about it like out of touch…

“Strangers in the night, exchanging glances...”

I admit I would be considered “a poor” but wtf kind of sandwich place was this?? It’s not just that the ingredients were fancier (uh, are they?), of course she didn’t know what the sandwiches were when the place made up their own god damn names for them. If I make a sandwich called, “David Brooks Smells his own…

It’s not the idea of class systems that most here find so hard to take from Brooks, it’s the condescension. That his friend “only” has a high school degree. And then that he took her to get Mexican food because apparently that’s what uneducated folk eat. It’s dumb. He’s dumb.

I just read the column (because someone kindly pasted it into the comments in a thread above) and had the exact same response.

I’m so glad his poor uneducated friend will never read that garbage article, since the NYT requires proof of income and a passing grade on a culture test before you can access the site.

I COMPLETELY agree.

It’s like he proved his point using himself as an example of an asshole humiliating and excluding someone. “American upper-middle-class culture (where the opportunities are) is now laced with cultural signifiers that are completely illegible unless you happen to have grown up in this class. They play on the normal…

Man, Brooks had the germ of an idea there (we have a significant class gap in America) and instead of following that logically (most of the rising wages have gone to those who are already very wealthy while opportunities for everyone else are drying up) he starts talking about how people without degrees don’t know…

So I was talking to Cesar at my corner deli and he said *faarrrrttt*

God, David Brooks really is the worst.

Now stop it.

So again, let me address this. It seems that when something isn’t intended for the masses, aka white folks, some of *y’all really don’t get it and speak completely out of turn. Calling someone a “jew” isn’t antisemitic. Saying that “jews own everything” isn’t anti-semitic either. He’s addressing a common…

The White Feminism here is most particularly glaring when the The Root and Jezebel cover the same incident/event without sharing articles.

I’ve had an exceptionally hard time watching most of the commenters here comment on his newest album and all that he’s revealed regarding himself and his marriage. Maybe because I ‘get’ men (and people, really) like this. Everyone isn’t born self aware. Everyone’s experiences aren’t the same. Everyone doesn’t have all…

I took it more like he was surprised that he literally felt the pull of not wanting her to leave and couldn’t believe how emotional he was over it - because before B he just looked at women as I don’t know what.

“...gave our country away.” This fool projects so damn much that every tweet is tantamount to a confession.

Well, if he’s that serious about emulating Napoleon, I’m up for sending Bannon to a desolate island to spend the rest of his life in the company of some scary green wallpaper.