Author Rob Henderson presents historical data on the breakdown of family structure in low-income American communities.
Assertion Partly supported
Henderson: White Democrats supported defunding police far more than minority Democrats
“There was another survey of just Democratic voters and found that white Democrats were far more supportive of defunding the police than black and Hispanic Democrats, ah, and so as a result, despite the fact that most people didn't want this, ah, many cities ac…”
Opinion
Henderson: Denigrating the two-parent family is the most damaging luxury belief
“The luxury belief that has had the most wide-ranging, ah, societal consequences, ah, has been, ah, the denigration of the two-parent family.”
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Henderson: Childhood instability drives worse outcomes for kids than poverty
“Childhood instability is, is worse than childhood poverty for future outcomes. So, in terms of criminality or educational attainment growing up in a very unstable environment is actually worse than impoverishment, and even when you control for income instabili…”
Insight
Henderson: Social media exposes the intellectual limitations of institutional elites
“Now people can go online and just see how yeah, how, how mentally limited a lot of elites are just by looking at their Twitter profiles, or the things that they say, things that they write about, whatever expressions that they have online,”
Insight
Rob Henderson: Core feature of luxury belief is insulation from consequences
“A core feature of a luxury belief is that the believer Is comfortably insulated from the consequences of his or her belief.”
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Henderson: Yale has more top 1% students than bottom 60% combined
“There are more, ah, students from families in the top one percent of the income scale than the entire bottom 60%”