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5 Feet of Fury

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‘He points out that sociologists are now gingerly saying, ‘He was right.’

January 31, 2012 By Kathy Shaidle

Yep:

In a famous report to President Johnson, Moynihan used the phrase “tangle of pathology” to describe the black family, arguing that some of its problems stemmed from high rates of out-of-wedlock birth, not just from racism. That made Moynihan a pariah; other Harvard professors wouldn’t let their kids play with his.

As Haidt tells the story, Moynihan committed “the cardinal sin”: “blaming the victim, where the victim is one of your sacralized victim groups.”

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