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the trick is that the report is a sociological study. you cannot possibly simply equate sociological analysis with some vague "liberal viewpoint" and the pretend that the results are false. the results of this study are not new--that the distribution of wealth in the united states is far more unequal than is the case in any other industrialized country is the case. this is not new. this is not a surprise. that this inequality has extreme impacts on social mobility in reality, not in some horatio alger fantasy, is true. it is empirically the case. that these effects are bourne disproportionately by african-americans is also the case. there's no way around the data.
now if this study was the first to conclude that there are problems of unequal distribution of wealth in the united states *maybe* i'd be sympathetic to your objections. but this is **far** from the first such study. what this study isolates are the perverse effects of ideological positions like yours, dogzilla, transposed into policy. and these results are stark and unpleasant.
so your recourse is to attempt to dismiss sociological work? you're clutching at straws, methinks
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