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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…”
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.”
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…”
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,”
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.”
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%”
Henderson: Luxury beliefs are upper-class status symbols that harm lower classes
“Luxury beliefs are ideas and opinions that confer status on the upper class while often inflicting costs. On the lower classes.”
Henderson: Poorest Americans are 20 times more likely to suffer sexual assault
“So in the U.S., relative to those 175,000 dollars or more per year, the poorest Americans are seven times more likely to be victims of robbery, seven times more likely to be victims of aggravated assault, and 20 times more likely to be victims of sexual assaul…”
Henderson: Cultural elites promote burning social bridges over political disagreements
“Over the last couple of years, it's become trendy among cultural elites to, ah promote this idea of burning bridges, social ties over disagreements over social or political views, and if you're an upper, upper middle class person, if you're highly educated, ah…”
Henderson: Poor two-parent households plummeted from 95% in 1960 to 30%
“For poor and working class Americans, those in the bottom 30%, it was 95% in 1960 and it plummeted to 30% by 2005.”
Henderson: Workplace self-censorship increases with higher levels of educational attainment
“If you look at the data for Americans who report self-censoring for fear of, ah, damaging their employment prospects or getting fired It actually increases the more educational attainment someone has, so for people who, ah, the highest level of education is a …”
Henderson: Only non-manual workers have time to adopt elite social mannerisms
“In other words, only people who did not work blue-collar jobs, manual labor, could afford to invest the time and the resources into performing the class mannerisms of that top segment.”
Henderson: Higher-status individuals desire power more than lower-status ones
“The result was that relative to lower status individuals, higher status individuals have the strongest desire for wealth and status, so these researchers collected, ah, objective measures of status, things like, ah, socioeconomic status, level of income, occup…”