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<p>Conservative <em>New York Times </em>columnist David Brooks published an article called &quot;<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/11/opinion/how-we-are-ruining-america.html" target="_blank">How We Are Ruining America</a>&quot; on Tuesday. And even with everything else to rip conservatives about in 2017 America, it has taken the cake. Or, shall we say, the gourmet cured meat.</p><oembed>https://twitter.com/BenjySarlin/status/884761822661931009</oembed><div className="ad-splitter"></div><p>Allow me to tell you that the entire article boils down to this paragraph:</p><blockquote> <p>Recently I took a friend with only a high school degree to lunch. Insensitively, I led her into a gourmet sandwich shop. Suddenly I saw her face freeze up as she was confronted with sandwiches named &quot;Padrino&quot; and &quot;Pomodoro&quot; and ingredients like soppressata, capicollo and a striata baguette. I quickly asked her if she wanted to go somewhere else and she anxiously nodded yes and we ate Mexican.</p> </blockquote><p>Don&#39;t worry if you, like David Brooks&#39; friend, didn&#39;t know all those meats. You&#39;re not alone.</p><div class="oembedall-container sec-iframe sec-oembed-iframe"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Someone should tell David Brooks that having a college degree doesn&#39;t preclude you from disliking pretentious hipster eateries.</p>&mdash; Noam Blum (@neontaster) <a href="https://twitter.com/neontaster/status/884757695156408321?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 11, 2017</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div><div className="ad-splitter"></div><div class="oembedall-container sec-iframe sec-oembed-iframe"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">I have a PhD and no clue what that stuff is. This person probably seemed anxious to flee because she was stuck having lunch w/David Brooks. <a href="https://t.co/1eyNJeiXck">https://t.co/1eyNJeiXck</a></p>&mdash; Sarah Kendzior (@sarahkendzior) <a href="https://twitter.com/sarahkendzior/status/884758657233276928?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 11, 2017</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div><div className="ad-splitter"></div><div class="oembedall-container sec-iframe sec-oembed-iframe"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">It is hard to distinguish yourself as a condescending ass these days, cuz we&#39;re overrun, but David Brooks has always been an overachiever.</p>&mdash; Brian Koppelman (@briankoppelman) <a href="https://twitter.com/briankoppelman/status/884759789250781184?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 11, 2017</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div><div className="ad-splitter"></div><p>At this point you&#39;re asking yourself: &quot;Wait, but what?&quot; You don&#39;t need to try to understand Brooks&#39; point, but if you want to, here:</p><p>It&#39;s a long article, and it lays out some of the ways that upper-middle-class Americans make it difficult for poorer Americans to join their communities.</p><p>But forget the &quot;construction rules that keep the poor and less educated away from places with good schools and job opportunities,&quot; writes Brooks. Forget that &quot;upper-middle-class-moms have the means and the maternity leaves&quot; that other moms don&#39;t.</p><p>That&#39;s all &quot;less important than the informal social barriers that segregate the lower 80 percent&quot; from the top 20. Social barriers like, sure, capocollo.</p><p>Capocollo is keeping poor America from joining the upper-middle-class.</p><p>Brooks was immediately ravaged on Twitter. Rich or poor, we can all enjoy jokes about a snobby writer&#39;s meats.</p><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>There were the rewrites.</h2><div class="oembedall-container sec-iframe sec-oembed-iframe"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">today&#39;s David Brooks column is worth reading <a href="https://t.co/6UbURCmVAc">pic.twitter.com/6UbURCmVAc</a></p>&mdash; Simon Maloy (@SimonMaloy) <a href="https://twitter.com/SimonMaloy/status/884754433036476417?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 11, 2017</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div><div className="ad-splitter"></div><div class="oembedall-container sec-iframe sec-oembed-iframe"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">&quot;I took a friend who&#39;d only gotten one doctorate to a wurst house. She pronounced Sauerkraut wrong. So spat in her hair.&quot; David Brooks.</p>&mdash; Brian Koppelman (@briankoppelman) <a href="https://twitter.com/briankoppelman/status/884760997868843008?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 11, 2017</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div><div className="ad-splitter"></div><div class="oembedall-container sec-iframe sec-oembed-iframe"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">great stuff in the latest David Brooks column <a href="https://t.co/6PFYAaKaCT">pic.twitter.com/6PFYAaKaCT</a></p>&mdash; Jason O. Gilbert (@gilbertjasono) <a href="https://twitter.com/gilbertjasono/status/884756918048358400?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 11, 2017</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>There were the confused.</h2><div class="oembedall-container sec-iframe sec-oembed-iframe"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">This David Brooks thing reminds me when he listed Stella as an ironic trucker-cap beer bc it was &quot;the beer of the Belgian working class.&quot;</p>&mdash; Emily Nussbaum (@emilynussbaum) <a href="https://twitter.com/emilynussbaum/status/884758186418475008?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 11, 2017</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div><div className="ad-splitter"></div><div class="oembedall-container sec-iframe sec-oembed-iframe"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">my whole timeline right now, thanks to David Brooks <a href="https://t.co/bRViqHrwyC">pic.twitter.com/bRViqHrwyC</a></p>&mdash; Seth D. Michaels (@sethdmichaels) <a href="https://twitter.com/sethdmichaels/status/884761641778368513?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 11, 2017</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div><div className="ad-splitter"></div><oembed>https://twitter.com/jbarro/status/884755642564653058</oembed><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>And, in the majority, there were the mean.</h2><div class="oembedall-container sec-iframe sec-oembed-iframe"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">I&#39;m starting to think there are reasons why no one wants to go out to dinner with David Brooks. <a href="https://t.co/fyGksU0rfr">https://t.co/fyGksU0rfr</a></p>&mdash; Jeet Heer (@HeerJeet) <a href="https://twitter.com/HeerJeet/status/884751464048062464?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 11, 2017</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div><div className="ad-splitter"></div><div class="oembedall-container sec-iframe sec-oembed-iframe"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">No fucking wonder everyone bails on plans with David Brooks <a href="https://t.co/6OuqCoZ5mn">pic.twitter.com/6OuqCoZ5mn</a></p>&mdash; Brandy Jensen (@BrandyLJensen) <a href="https://twitter.com/BrandyLJensen/status/884755070054805504?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 11, 2017</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div><div className="ad-splitter"></div><oembed>https://twitter.com/xmasape/status/884757855148101632</oembed><div className="ad-splitter"></div><div class="oembedall-container sec-iframe sec-oembed-iframe"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Trump: This Russia thing is busting wide open. What can possibly distract from it?<br>Bannon: (Pause) I have an idea. Get me David Brooks....</p>&mdash; Jeet Heer (@HeerJeet) <a href="https://twitter.com/HeerJeet/status/884758693786644481?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 11, 2017</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div><div className="ad-splitter"></div><div class="oembedall-container sec-iframe sec-oembed-iframe"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">I&#39;m pretty sure David Brooks doesn&#39;t have any friends with only HS degrees. Also, I&#39;m pretty sure David Brooks doesn&#39;t have any friends</p>&mdash; David Burge (@iowahawkblog) <a href="https://twitter.com/iowahawkblog/status/884764196373762048?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 11, 2017</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div><div className="ad-splitter"></div><p>Say what you will, I&#39;m STARVING.</p><div className="ad-splitter"></div>

Twitter loses it over conservative writer's outrageously snobby article about lunch meat.

Conservative New York Times columnist David Brooks published an article called &quot;How We Are Ruining America&quot; on Tuesday. And even with everything else to rip conservatives about in 2017 America, it has taken the cake. Or, shall we say, the gourmet cured meat.https://twitter.com/BenjySarlin/status/884761822661931009Allow me to tell you that the entire article boils down to this paragraph: Recently I took a friend with only a high school degree to lunch. Insensitively, I led her into a gourmet sandwich shop. Suddenly I saw her face freeze up as she was confronted with sandwiches named &quot;Padrino&quot; and &quot;Pomodoro&quot; and ingredients like soppressata, capicollo and a striata baguette. I quickly asked her if she wanted to go somewhere else and she anxiously nodded yes and we ate Mexican. Don&#39;t worry if you, like David Brooks&#39; friend, didn&#39;t know all those meats. You&#39;re not alone.Someone should tell David Brooks that having a college degree doesn&#39;t preclude you from disliking pretentious hipster eateries.&mdash; Noam Blum (@neontaster) July 11, 2017 I have a PhD and no clue what that stuff is. This person probably seemed anxious to flee because she was stuck having lunch w/David Brooks. https://t.co/1eyNJeiXck&mdash; Sarah Kendzior (@sarahkendzior) July 11, 2017 It is hard to distinguish yourself as a condescending ass these days, cuz we&#39;re overrun, but David Brooks has always been an overachiever.&mdash; Brian Koppelman (@briankoppelman) July 11, 2017 At this point you&#39;re asking yourself: &quot;Wait, but what?&quot; You don&#39;t need to try to understand Brooks&#39; point, but if you want to, here:It&#39;s a long article, and it lays out some of the ways that upper-middle-class Americans make it difficult for poorer Americans to join their communities.But forget the &quot;construction rules that keep the poor and less educated away from places with good schools and job opportunities,&quot; writes Brooks. Forget that &quot;upper-middle-class-moms have the means and the maternity leaves&quot; that other moms don&#39;t.That&#39;s all &quot;less important than the informal social barriers that segregate the lower 80 percent&quot; from the top 20. Social barriers like, sure, capocollo.Capocollo is keeping poor America from joining the upper-middle-class.Brooks was immediately ravaged on Twitter. Rich or poor, we can all enjoy jokes about a snobby writer&#39;s meats.There were the rewrites.today&#39;s David Brooks column is worth reading pic.twitter.com/6UbURCmVAc&mdash; Simon Maloy (@SimonMaloy) July 11, 2017 &quot;I took a friend who&#39;d only gotten one doctorate to a wurst house. She pronounced Sauerkraut wrong. So spat in her hair.&quot; David Brooks.&mdash; Brian Koppelman (@briankoppelman) July 11, 2017 great stuff in the latest David Brooks column pic.twitter.com/6PFYAaKaCT&mdash; Jason O. Gilbert (@gilbertjasono) July 11, 2017 There were the confused.This David Brooks thing reminds me when he listed Stella as an ironic trucker-cap beer bc it was &quot;the beer of the Belgian working class.&quot;&mdash; Emily Nussbaum (@emilynussbaum) July 11, 2017 my whole timeline right now, thanks to David Brooks pic.twitter.com/bRViqHrwyC&mdash; Seth D. Michaels (@sethdmichaels) July 11, 2017 https://twitter.com/jbarro/status/884755642564653058And, in the majority, there were the mean.I&#39;m starting to think there are reasons why no one wants to go out to dinner with David Brooks. https://t.co/fyGksU0rfr&mdash; Jeet Heer (@HeerJeet) July 11, 2017 No fucking wonder everyone bails on plans with David Brooks pic.twitter.com/6OuqCoZ5mn&mdash; Brandy Jensen (@BrandyLJensen) July 11, 2017 https://twitter.com/xmasape/status/884757855148101632Trump: This Russia thing is busting wide open. What can possibly distract from it?Bannon: (Pause) I have an idea. Get me David Brooks....&mdash; Jeet Heer (@HeerJeet) July 11, 2017 I&#39;m pretty sure David Brooks doesn&#39;t have any friends with only HS degrees. Also, I&#39;m pretty sure David Brooks doesn&#39;t have any friends&mdash; David Burge (@iowahawkblog) July 11, 2017 Say what you will, I&#39;m STARVING.

Conservative New York Times columnist David Brooks published an article on Tuesday that was immediately ravaged by Twitter.