RIP David Brooks

the man finally starts saying some things that make sense and it's like the prodigal son, who wasted his patrimony in riotous living and disregard of his responsibility to his place, and then he comes skulking around saying he's changed. it's gobsmacking enough to make it seem like it's something special instead of, "bruh, what took you so long? welcome to the light."

But just the right young people, no outside agitators (looks like I've always pictured a textbook at local xtian academy):
The Great Society had a “Community Action” project that professed to redistribute power to neighborhoods. But it did it in the worst possible ways. A lot of what it did involved sending disruptive agitators to stir up conflict between local activists and local elected officials. The result was rancor and gridlock.

This article in The Atlantic is...unexpected.

The Culture of Policing is Broken

The killings of the past few years and the Black Lives Matter movement, which has arisen in response to them, have given all Americans an education in the systematic mistreatment of black people by police forces across the country. Videos of police brutality are washing across everyone’s phones: videos of cops running over young women with police horses, pushing down old white men for no reason, rushing into crowds of peaceful demonstrators, and raining blows on young people and reporters. Videos that show the deadness in the eyes of an officer as he kicks a young woman in the face, a woman who is just sitting there peacefully on the street.

Where does this brutality come from? And what can we do about it?

Two theories are now dominating public debate. The first sees the problem on the individual level. There are a number of “bad apples” in every police force—authoritarian, racist bullies who take pleasure in pummeling defenseless black men. We need to take away union protections, increase sanctions, remove them from the force, and prosecute them when appropriate.

The second theory sees the problem on the systemic level. There’s something inherently oppressive about neighborhoods being ruled by men and women with guns, batons, and mace. In a systemically racist society, the use of force in that way is bound to be unjust. We need to “defund the police” and try softer, more communal models.

Both theories contain some truth. Some cops, like George Floyd’s killer, Derek Chauvin, rack up a lot of complaints and infractions. It’s also true that over the course of American history, law enforcement has constantly been used to enforce racial hierarchy. Police brutality reflects the legacy of racial lynchings, and some of the habits of mind that are still embedded in American society and in its police departments.

But the evidence suggests that the bulk of the problem is on a different level, neither individual or systemic. The problem lies in the organizational cultures of some police forces. In the forces with an us-versus-the-world siege mentality. In the ones with the we-strap-on-the-armor-and-fight culture, the ones who depersonalize the human beings out on the street. All cruelty begins with dehumanization—not seeing the face of the other, not seeing the whole humanity of the other. A cultural regime of dehumanization has been constructed in many police departments. In that fertile ground, racial biases can spread and become entrenched. But the regime can be deconstructed.

Must be so white male nice to feel perfectly comfortable expounding on any and all topics as if you possess expertise or have some special insight that the world must hear about.

It's his job to comment on everything. And to that job he brings a stunning lack of humility and a consistently purblind insight.

RIP

there's a catch right? Some shitty neoliberal reform program about 20 paragraphs down I'm guessing.

'culture' is one of his hobbyhorses iric

guys you all had it wrong - the problem with the police is neither individual or systemic

in this piece for the atlantic, i will explain how 'organizational' is different than 'systemic'

During David Brooks' livestream today, I implored you guys not to ask him why, if he hates millennials so much, did he marry one. Well that backfired 🙄 pic.twitter.com/RJ1MooZGp4

— Ken Klippenstein (@kenklippenstein) July 24, 2020

loool

hey the new one passes the 'half your age plus seven' rule by an entire year, so leave him alone you despicable monsters

jeeeeeeeeeeez this is a new marker in the cringe/reality genre

His books are arranged by color, lol. https://t.co/6i1hZi1bR5

— Susan of Texas (@SusanofTexas) August 22, 2020

fun fact: david brooks never uses the term "white" in that clip. he talks about the concerns of "working class voters" from the "upper midwest," which last i checked, was inhabited people of many different backgrounds and ethnicities. once again, the idea of appealing to the economic interests of voters in struggling parts of the country is framed, by a reputable media outlet, at some kind of racist idea.

and brooks is a conservative so he's not a good ambassador for this point — whatever — but it's not really about him. in general, this is the rift certain elements in the democratic party want to create. on the one hand, diversity, tolerance, and concern for the most marginalized groups among us; on the other, social democracy. in fact, we can BOTH of these things. and we need to if we're going to dig ourselves out of the current crisis.

What a night. Usually when I’m up this late it’s because I’m listening to NBA Youngboy.

— David Brooks (@nytdavidbrooks) November 4, 2020

.38 baby boomer over here

ahahahaa

*quietly googles NBA Youngboy*

That tweet makes no sense for a number of reasons but the major one I don’t understand is why that music is keeping him up

Like does he mean it’s booming in the street and that woke him up? That almost sounds about right

RIP David Brooks

Full fathom five thy David lies;
Of his bones are coral made;
Those are pearls that were his eyes:
Nothing of him that doth fade
But doth suffer a sea-change
Into something rich and strange.
Sea-nymphs hourly ring his knell
Hark! Now I hear them – Ding-dong, bell.

no way, he's up late gettin ZOOTED

xp which NBA YoungBoy song is that?

He asked his millennial wife for the name of a popular musician?

brooks clearly loves youngboy's commitment to hard work and achievement under capitalism (never broke again)

I would argue that anyone willing to marry David Brooks in 2017, millennial or no, isn't going to have a clue who NBA YoungBoy is.

brb gonna collect on my bet that we'd talk about youngboy more on the david brooks thread than on the rolling rap thread

youngbobos

ffs

Readers, many of us got involved in the Black Lives Matter marches last summer. Do Black lives matter to you only when they serve your political purpose? Shouldn’t we be marching to get Black and brown children back safely into schools right now? https://t.co/KIv7pijw1c

— David Brooks (@nytdavidbrooks) January 29, 2021

even for brooks that's fucking low

Pretty gross that the USA has chosen teachers to be the scapegoats of our COVID malaise.

i see that ppl have already made the joke that Brooks must be annoyed w his child bride

i never would have guessed he'd cite alec macgillis, who has become baltimore's biggest covidiot and doesn't give a shit about students in baltimore schools at any other time. last year schools had to close because they had no heat. every year they close on several days because there is no air conditioning. there is no chance they will improve ventilation in any way. these people make me so fucking mad. they would never suggest distributing their wealth to these places to help the kids have better lives. love to get paid $$$ to write context-free, ahistorical garbage every day.

i mean

One study found that the loss of learning could reduce the lifetime income of today’s American students by 3 percent. A study in The Journal of the American Medical Association found that their increased financial stress could be associated with a collective loss of 13.8 million years of life.

when have you cared about this before

just a rich guy, thinkin baout things for the new york times

i wonder if any studies have ever been done before, in any other context, about what causes disparities in earning potential and life expectancy 🤔

oh gross and of course it is Friday, when he's on the PBS Newshour; I always vow to leave the room when he comes on but end up hate-watching.

Readers, many of us got involved in the Black Lives Matter marches last summer

ah yes, who can forget David Brooks' important contributions to the movement

this reminded me https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2020/08/05/republicans-democrats-differ-over-factors-k-12-schools-should-consider-in-deciding-whether-to-reopen/

White adults are the most likely to say K-12 schools in their area should offer in-person school five days a week: 24% say this, compared with about one-in-ten Black (8%), Hispanic (10%) and Asian (12%) adults. Among Black Americans, 43% say that, all things considered, schools in their area should provide online instruction five days a week, as do 39% of Hispanic Americans and 35% of Asian Americans. About a quarter of white Americans (23%) share this view.

Opinions also vary by income, with lower-income adults (35%) more likely than those with middle (28%) or upper (20%) incomes to say K-12 schools in their area should provide online instruction five days a week. In turn, pluralities of middle-income (37%) and upper-income (44%) adults say schools in their area should provide a mix of online and in-person instruction.

HMMM weird results given what david brooks is telling us

many of us... Shouldn’t we...

file under: Gross misuse of "us" and "we"

he is so loathsome. damn shame PBS & NPR let this dude come on and launder borderline maga takes for centrists

this reminded me https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2020/08/05/republicans-democrats-differ-over-factors-k-12-schools-should-consider-in-deciding-whether-to-reopen/

White adults are the most likely to say K-12 schools in their area should offer in-person school five days a week: 24% say this, compared with about one-in-ten Black (8%), Hispanic (10%) and Asian (12%) adults. Among Black Americans, 43% say that, all things considered, schools in their area should provide online instruction five days a week, as do 39% of Hispanic Americans and 35% of Asian Americans. About a quarter of white Americans (23%) share this view.
Opinions also vary by income, with lower-income adults (35%) more likely than those with middle (28%) or upper (20%) incomes to say K-12 schools in their area should provide online instruction five days a week. In turn, pluralities of middle-income (37%) and upper-income (44%) adults say schools in their area should provide a mix of online and in-person instruction.

HMMM weird results given what david brooks is telling us

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TBF, these poll results are about 6 months old and from before the school year began.

ok

I mean, there is evidence that remote learning has been quite bad for the most vulnerable. Obviously David Brooks doesn't give a shit and has an agenda. Personally, I advocate for schools in my own district to be more open because I think it's the right decision, but I would never invoke "the most vulnerable" as a basis.

remote learning has been quite bad for the most vulnerable, just like everything is, always! he doesn't care! we should give people things, like good schools and food and health care, and less police. BUT WE DON'T. we didn't do anything to contain the pandemic. to make opening schools this one issue we can consider in isolation, so we can get in another dig at teachers' unions, is wrong and stupid.

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Wait was DB’s wedding video linked itt already? Because it proves how much he cares about young Black people.

Can't believe Bruce Springsteen gave this union-bashing tool a shout-out on his radio show last week.