Zach Clayton, a freshman from Raleigh, said the university would have been smart to require both "Nickel and Dimed" and "Sam Walton: Made in America: My Story," the autobiography of the Wal-Mart founder.
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The insistence upon seeing "both sides" is what draws the attention in.
Ehrenreich's observations about how difficult it is to live on very meager pay are either correct or not; there is no debate, only fact checking. What exactly is the other side?
It is the belief that, evidence be damned, the US is the land of opportunity for everybody who's willing to work hard and 'have a dream.'
These students seem to be insisting (though I doubt they know it) upon the enforcement of our collective, Potemkin village of the mind.
Perhaps the most tenacious and slippery foe progressives face.
DRM
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