tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7897286065374355890.post4802058292698025121..comments2024-03-19T04:21:59.320-07:00Comments on Mike Rose's Blog: Work, Intelligence, and the Blue-Collar VoteMike Rosehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14013622839240394965noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7897286065374355890.post-26310029079602007602015-12-08T15:14:39.195-08:002015-12-08T15:14:39.195-08:00hi mike rose. I sent a comment but I cant see it d...hi mike rose. I sent a comment but I cant see it do u know what can be wrong?Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11399903068979296744noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7897286065374355890.post-83359805369972029612015-11-30T18:50:39.465-08:002015-11-30T18:50:39.465-08:00Dear mike,
When reading these two articles I cou...Dear mike,<br /> When reading these two articles I couldn't help but to reference back to your original essay "Blue collar Brilliance" where you expressed that American culture needs to stop thinking that jobs that require less schooling also require less intelligence. You believe that we should not limit intelligence as something that can only be achieved by formal schooling but Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11399903068979296744noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7897286065374355890.post-87005353854434304752009-12-14T07:34:16.462-08:002009-12-14T07:34:16.462-08:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7897286065374355890.post-3159901298978720492009-04-28T15:35:00.000-07:002009-04-28T15:35:00.000-07:00Cindy Howard
4-28-2009
While I realize that you ...Cindy Howard <br />4-28-2009<br /><br />While I realize that you have not updated your bog on the topic of Work, Intelligence, and the Blue-Collar Vote, Part Two within the last year, I had to add my comments to the subject as it came very close to home for me. As one of the many sons and daughters growing up in a small West Virginia town with my family, Blue Collar was and is our middle name.Cindy Howardnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7897286065374355890.post-82690878161316746942008-08-16T09:55:00.000-07:002008-08-16T09:55:00.000-07:00In America, we tend to de-value what we don't unde...In America, we tend to de-value what we don't understand. I love this essay and how you articulate the assumptions made about manual work and the people who perform these tasks. Like Deborah Meier, I also know people who have chosen a life or a career (even temporarily) that involves manual labor - highly skilled and highly educated people who decided, for various reasons, that they wanted a American Puzzlehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06114805840788111127noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7897286065374355890.post-82168674011665630602008-08-11T19:00:00.000-07:002008-08-11T19:00:00.000-07:00This is not about the intelligence needed in manua...This is not about the intelligence needed in manual labor but rather about a time when my understanding was changed. I grew up in a small Minnesota farm town - 800 people or so. There was a crew working on the railroad and they would come into town on the weekend ( Saturday when traditionally all the stores stayed open until 9 - the bars later.) I was perhaps 10 and walking home with a couple of Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12673131614194909134noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7897286065374355890.post-86545363249761369592008-08-11T17:07:00.000-07:002008-08-11T17:07:00.000-07:00Dear Mike, It is dispiriting. And most insulting, ...Dear Mike, <BR/>It is dispiriting. And most insulting, I think, is a candidate who cultivates in themselves new prejudices and stupidities to appeal to a constituency to whom they attribute these prejudices and stupidities -- seeking to persuade them that they've been disrespected by people who DON'T attribute those things to them and therefore ignore the "need" to represent them.<BR/><BR/>Your Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7897286065374355890.post-15869739188532517852008-08-11T09:34:00.000-07:002008-08-11T09:34:00.000-07:00Hi Mike,How appropriate this message is. Interest...Hi Mike,<BR/><BR/>How appropriate this message is. Interestingly even when physical labor pays well we assume it requires less intelligence. Many manual trades pay better than white collar jobs and yet they carry with them this stigma--which then becomes a matter of pride. There's a history of past humiliations in this fierce pride, and the anger toward schooled elites.<BR/><BR/>The way to "Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com