But that was well known already - like his last appearance on Simmons’ show when he talked about how if you were building basketball teams using the greatest players from specific countries, Nigeria would be the best. Then he proceeded to compile a roster of players from other places with like two actual Nigerians and tried to explain how if you thought about it a certain way it made sense. It did not.
But also does a good job of taking the perspective not thought of before. It's just sometimes he almost does it purposefully when it doesn't need to be done.
His podcast where he discusses how golf courses are an abomination and uses the one egregious property tax situation of Los Angeles is a great example of this.
Gladwell is a mildly clever dude who has convinced swaths... Â
of people that he's a fucking genius. Couple some leaps of logic and statistical analysis with some banal insights dressed up to sound clever and away you go.
And he comes across as a toad in this exchange. It did not require a psychiatrist to pick up the bleeping phone and tell someone that your assistant coach was sexually assaulting a child, and if that wasn't acted upon to then call law enforcement and tell them that your assistant coach was sexually assaulting a child, and certainly to prevent said assistant coach from bringing any more children to your practice facilities.
really are idiotic. Unless Paterno was 100% senile at the time, he easily could have verbalized whatever he saw as being wrong without knowing the "lingo". My grandfather is 97 and not in great health but trust me if he saw a little boy being molested he could put together language to communicate this.
Not going to litigate what Paterno knew or did or didn’t do. But the man graduated from Brown with an English Literature degree. Pretty sure he knows what the word sodomy means. Gladwell is a complete fool.
I think people overrate their ability to do the right thing in situations like this - but Paterno was a leader and possessed enormous power at Penn State. And Sandusky hung around the program for years after, no?
...when he said Brown v. Board of Ed was a poorly-reasoned decision.
You know, I agree. I thought he should've positioned it as an unseeable or unwanted result of an otherwise necessary decision. I do agree that the integration of teachers first would've remedied the situation, but there's no way that would've happened in 1950's Kansas. Waiting for that to happen another decade would've been more detrimental than what happened.
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His podcast where he discusses how golf courses are an abomination and uses the one egregious property tax situation of Los Angeles is a great example of this.
And he comes across as a toad in this exchange. It did not require a psychiatrist to pick up the bleeping phone and tell someone that your assistant coach was sexually assaulting a child, and if that wasn't acted upon to then call law enforcement and tell them that your assistant coach was sexually assaulting a child, and certainly to prevent said assistant coach from bringing any more children to your practice facilities.
There shouldn't be a Penn State football program anymore. Stadium should have been razed to the ground.
You know, I agree. I thought he should've positioned it as an unseeable or unwanted result of an otherwise necessary decision. I do agree that the integration of teachers first would've remedied the situation, but there's no way that would've happened in 1950's Kansas. Waiting for that to happen another decade would've been more detrimental than what happened.