Chris Duffy
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7,610 appearances
65 recordings
9 series
first heard Jul 2023
last heard 4d ago
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And we are back.
Here is Emerson Whitney reading another passage from his book, O Mother.
You, in addition to being uh an author, are also a teacher.
In in one part of the book related to what we're talking about here, you talk about uh teaching classes at LACC, LA Community College.
You talk about teaching the book Laura Gottesteiner's A Dream Foreclosed, um, alongside Dreams Deferred, Recession, Struggle, and the Quest for a Better World by Dallas author Brandolyn Barnett.
And both books are about the housing crisis in 2008.
And
Um
You talk about how there are dozens of interviews in this book that have been done with people who had been targeted for predatory loans and then they had eventually lost everything.
And you say all of these people had something in common.
Nearly every single person who had been targeted blamed themselves.
But the loans were predatory, my students would yell.
They were trying to trick people.
So why did everyone think it was their fault?
I'd get chills in the classroom when this kind of thing would happen because it's so clear that my students were all at once recognizing the violence of bootstraps culture.
That even when companies target vulnerable populations and actively trick loan borrowers, it is still seen as our fault.
Yeah.
I feel like
That idea
That even when we are the victims of targeting, even when it is a giant system that is actively doing something that is harming us, it's still somehow our fault for getting caught up in the scam.
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