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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don't agree with the political positions I have  read that Vance has and I haven't really followed his political career, but I do not understand at all the angst against his book. I have read it twice after my spouse gave it to me because he thought I would resonate as I grew up under similar circumstances.

His book is not about hill people or people from Appalachia. It never made any of those claims. His book is about generational trauma and how the cycle is repeating itself among 3 generations and how he is trying to break it. It is about how hard it is to break free, the guilt, the struggle and how society punishes you, through no fault of your own, if you come from a family like that.

I was raised in an environment like this. I suffered then and I suffer now. To dismiss a person's experience of being physically abused,  having a parent who has repeated substance abuse problems, for being guilted into not telling because "SECRETS", is wrong. Why are people twisting themselves into a pretzel to claim he's a fraud? You think this stuff doesn't legitimately happen, in every city in this country?[/quote]
The people I’ve read who were critical of it pointed out that his generational trauma caused PTSD but everyone else’s generational trauma made them losers. And he’s not even from the area; he visited a few weeks in the summer and then felt that he understood. And then, like Paul Ryan before him, he proceeded to poop all over the programs that enabled him to get out and go up. That’s a turd barge no matter how you split it.

You might really like reading the book Heartland, by the way. I really enjoyed it. She grew up working class/poor and scrabbled her way out and she explains how, with humility and insight. https://www.amazon.com/Heartland-Memoir-Working-Richest-Country/dp/1501133098[/quote]

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