His friend is poor and uneducated so he/she probably can’t read anyway.
This just cracks me up. I grew up in a factory town full of poor irish, Italian, and Polish 2nd wave immigrants crammed into tiny row house communities. My irish-Catholic grandparents knew what soppressatta (prenounced correctly, thankyouverymuch) was 70-80 years ago. Also, pomodoro is on the menu at the olive…
Him: make me a sandwich!
My theory’s is that She doesn’t exist.
Read the article a few times to figure why he added the stupid sandwich story. His premise is that it’s culture that is making it harder for poor people to get a head instead of the structural barriers that were put in place. The structural barriers aren’t as bad as the cultural ones. Honestly, the culture barriers…
It’s so condescending an presumptuous. What if this lady simply lived somewhere other than NYC and thus wasn’t familiar with the frivolity of a “gourmet sandwich shop”. What if she had high blood pressure and was avoiding cured meats? What if she was a fucking celiac??
“Strangers in the night, exchanging glances...”
He’s not wrong at all, but he’s so damned paternalistic and wrong-headed that the whole article fills me with rage.
This high school graduate with no college degree has eaten in a Michelin 2 star restaurant and somehow managed not to completely humiliate herself. I didn’t realize I was a miracle.
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.
David Brook, asshole extraordinaire, blathers on about class divide and plugs a book called “Dream Hoarders” which my library doesn’t have yet.
Don’t even know who DB is, but have a star for penis running on balls (which clearly are not nearly empty:)
Didn’t Peggy Noonan do the same thing during the election, like inferred What The People Thing after locking eyes with a cab driver?
The relevant paragraph is quoted in this tweet:
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…
I love the touch of mocking Brooks managing to get details wrong while being snobbish, like using “paninis” instead of panini.
This is only slightly better than a classic “I took a taxi and found out about the world!” Tom Friedman jam