"For some, the Government has stepped in, a financial safety net. But for so many others, our fellow taxpayers, they have been abandoned and left to fend for themselves"
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"Sadly, watching the Chancellor, once again without even acknowledging or mentioning the excluded left me and so many others bewildered, angry and upset"
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"For some, the Government has stepped in, a financial safety net. But for so many others, our fellow taxpayers, they have been abandoned and left to fend for themselves"
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"In the words of @AndyBurnhamGM, 'basic fairness demands a solution be found'"
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"During the recall last week, Member after Member from across the House stood up and requested support for those who have been left out.
Incredulously, the Prime Minister said in response, 'Nobody has been excluded'"
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"Kim was deemed ineligible for SEISS because HMRC treats bereavement allowance and the pension payments from her late husband as trade income and therefore she falls foul of the 50/50 rule"
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"Louise's business opened in 2019 which meant she was unable to apply for Govt support. Her hopes pinned on obtaining a bounceback loan [...] which she was denied.
Traumatically, Louise has attempted to commit suicide 3 times"
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"James was made redundant in 2019 secured a new job early 2020 only to be lose it when Covid hit.
No employer to furlough him, he wasn't self-employed, so he fell through the gaps.
He starts 2021 claiming UC, classed as homeless"
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"All of these from the excluded include 200,000 newly self-employed, 200,000 self-employed previously earning over £50,000 in profits, 1.1million who earn less than 50% of their income from self-employment..."
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I just finished Eric Adler's The Battle of the Classics, and wanted to say something about Joel Christiansen's review linked below. I am not sure what motivates the review (I speculate a bit below), but it gives a very misleading impression of the book. 1/x
The meat of the criticism is that the history Adler gives is insufficiently critical. Adler describes a few figures who had a great influence on how the modern US university was formed. It's certainly critical: it focuses on the social Darwinism of these figures. 2/x
Other insinuations and suggestions in the review seem wildly off the mark, distorted, or inappropriate-- for example, that the book is clickbaity (it is scholarly) or conservative (hardly) or connected to the events at the Capitol (give me a break). 3/x
The core question: in what sense is classics inherently racist? Classics is old. On Adler's account, it begins in ancient Rome and is revived in the Renaissance. Slavery (Christiansen's primary concern) is also very old. Let's say classics is an education for slaveowners. 4/x
It's worth remembering that literacy itself is elite throughout most of this history. Literacy is, then, also the education of slaveowners. We can honor oral and musical traditions without denying that literacy is, generally, good. 5/x
As someone\u2019s who\u2019s read the book, this review strikes me as tremendously unfair. It mostly faults Adler for not writing the book the reviewer wishes he had! https://t.co/pqpt5Ziivj
— Teresa M. Bejan (@tmbejan) January 12, 2021
The meat of the criticism is that the history Adler gives is insufficiently critical. Adler describes a few figures who had a great influence on how the modern US university was formed. It's certainly critical: it focuses on the social Darwinism of these figures. 2/x
Other insinuations and suggestions in the review seem wildly off the mark, distorted, or inappropriate-- for example, that the book is clickbaity (it is scholarly) or conservative (hardly) or connected to the events at the Capitol (give me a break). 3/x
The core question: in what sense is classics inherently racist? Classics is old. On Adler's account, it begins in ancient Rome and is revived in the Renaissance. Slavery (Christiansen's primary concern) is also very old. Let's say classics is an education for slaveowners. 4/x
It's worth remembering that literacy itself is elite throughout most of this history. Literacy is, then, also the education of slaveowners. We can honor oral and musical traditions without denying that literacy is, generally, good. 5/x
