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silentwing26x posted...

Why do you think the article was shitty? Does it make factually incorrect claims?

No, it doesn't make factually incorrect claims that I can tell at least. But neither does that tweet storm. The issue is more one of emphasis and the logical structure of the arguments it makes. For example, talking about how incomes went up for blacks between 1940 and 1960 going up faster than the similar income for whites in the wake of the New Deal. It is true that black income went up, at a relatively faster rate than that of whites, but most of that is attributable to the great migration and increased industrialization because of the war effort (and then the subsequent lack of industry in other countries). Basically, both blacks and whites stopped being share croppers or running small farms and started working in factories, but whites had already had higher levels of that.

The whole conversation is also kind of irrelevant with respect to wealth, also, because when blacks moved from farms to cities they met the redlining etc that prevented them from accumulating wealth in the form of home ownership.

By separating the increase in income from the material process by which it happened (namely, migration to higher productivity cities from low productivity farms) the author is kind of eliding the central point of the topic he is claiming to tackle
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