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		mcguire on April 4, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Yet another novel I will no longer write Did you miss the rest of that comment: "Even the term “elite panic” is lie. The elite are fine in a disaster and they know it."

gwern on April 5, 2020 [–]

The Haitian elites were not fine in their disaster. And other elites (viz the American south's elites) knew it. That's the point.

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