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How the woke hurt the poor

18 June 2019

5:32 PM

18 June 2019

5:32 PM

My favourite American urbanist and demographer, Joel Kotkin, writes how the quest for social justice so often harms the poor:

Perhaps no issue more motivates progressive activists than social justice. Good intentions may motivate the social justice warriors, albeit sometimes sprinkled with a dollop of self-hatred. But good intentions do not necessarily produce good results.

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