Please Admit You Don’t Like Poor People So We Can Move On

In order to override cognitive reactions to visible poverty, you’ve got to admit your biases

Hanna Brooks Olsen
10 min readJul 5, 2018

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In the sociological literature on poverty, there are ample studies and papers about the ways that being poor impacts the brain. Stress, malnutrition, and exposure to the kinds of environmental contaminants that…

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Hanna Brooks Olsen

I wrote that one thing you didn’t really agree with.