I expect this bs from Heritage but how does this qualify as scholarship at Harvard?

[chieftain]

"When given the choice between a paycheck from a low-paying job and a welfare check, most intelligent people would realize that the welfare check offers them no potential for advancement. Low-IQ people do not internalize that fact nearly as well,"

Huffpo cites this line from a discussion of post 1965 Hispanic immigrants from Richwine's doctorate dissertation accepted by Harvard.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/10/jason-richwine-resigns-heritage-foundation_n_3254927.html

Heritage has had enough sense to distance itself from this bigot. If Harvard has, I have missed it.

[aquart]

1. Good point.

[freshwest]

2. A little poison ivy crept into the ivy league... Privilege breeds a special kind of stupidity.

[Warpy]

3. That's how people with high incomes always think

because they've been too bone ass lazy to bother looking at any numbers.

Even a dead end, minimum wage job allows you to live better than welfare does. Work will always pay just a little more than welfare does, that's how welfare is designed. Add to that the general humiliation of being in the system and there's even more incentive to work.

Anyone with the means to get off welfare will do so as quickly as possible. People who stay on it for years need to be looked at more closely for things like clinical depression, borderline mental retardation, and physical infirmities.

This is just the sort of elitist crap I'd expect out of both Harvard and Heritage and for the same reason. Money has insulated them from ever taking a real, objective look at why people are poor.

[mythology]

4. Harvard employed Samuel Huntington

His last book "Who Are We?" is remarkably similar to the drivel of Richwine.

Huntington's basic theory was that Hispanic immigration will harm the U.S. because Hispanics lack ambition and because they are Catholic, don't have the right values to assimilate. Basically there are some blithering idiots at Harvard that aren't just in the Harvard Business School.

In grad school a professor had us read the first couple of chapters and the conclusion on the theory that if we read the middle part, we might think the book was racist. I all but face palmed at that, but that professor was at best a jackass and at worst a racist misogynist.

[chieftain]

6. I am not surprised that there are conservatives at Harvard.

I am depressed that bigoted bilge is accepted as scholarship. Huntington was a mossback, this guy Richwine has a long time to be polluting our politics backed by his prestigious degree.That said, I take your point about Huntington. I remember being appalled at reading this grand old man of poli sci when I was considering it as a career choice.

[GeorgeGist]

5. Harvard produces some real crap ...

George W. Bush, Tony Scalia, Mitt Romney, Jason Richwine et al.

[moondust]

12. Ted Cruz.

[ljm2002]

7. Yes that was my reaction too...

...no surprise to hear this jerk emanating his odorous views from the Heritage Foundation; but Harvard gave him a PhD for the racist bile set forth in his PhD thesis? WTF??? And they do not see fit to comment.

Wow.

[timdog44]

8. My point exactly.

They should be at the forefront of a smack down.

[CTyankee]

9. Harvard has a real black eye lately. Of course, I don't care. Go Bulldogs!

Maybe Yale will win The Game this year....it sure would be nice...

[kenny blankenship]

10. Harvard still has a guy on their faculty who says

gay people have no stake in the future, and thus they don't care about the collective well being of their country, and this prevents them from being able to theorize about economics (this was a slam specifically directed against J. M. Keynes) because it causes them to overestimate the importance of selfish motives in others, because -supposedly- that's all they can experience themselves.

He really said that. He hasn't really apologized, either, unless claiming that you are being unfairly persecuted is an apology. And he hasn't been fired.

[former9thward]

11. Its called tenure.

And its not just at Harvard.