Overcoming The Victim Mentality - Rob Henderson

Rob Henderson returns to talk about his new book Troubled: A Memoir of Foster Care, Family, and Social Class. He and Bridget discuss the realities of the foster care system, what it’s like to be a foster kid, the kinds of people who become foster parents, and the difficulties of writing such a memoir. They explore the hardest chapter to write, the process of fact-checking a memoir, their experience as teens vs. teens today, and doing irresponsible things in a responsible way. They cover why dwelling on victimhood is a luxury, the reframing of everything as problematic, trying to tear everything down rather than finding the value in it, Rob’s experience at Yale after serving in the military, having a front row seat to the birth of the woke movement, the insular world of the educated elite, using wokeness as a way of seeking status, and building a career outside of traditional academia and media.
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[@cthornton523]

This is brilliant. I am raising my husband's kids with him, I claim them as my own. Their momma od'ed in 2017, the opiates & her intergenerational trauma did her in. The eldest, 19, is a fan of Mr. Henderson. Carry on being fantastic y'all.

[@samirdhindhwal8701]

Ooooh can't wait. Bridget I have to say DF and all your other stuff add a lot to my life. You guys r great. Have a good day today!

[@stevenlightfoot6479]

Yes at 1:28 that is perfect, in some cases members of the upper class (or wanna-bees) genuinely and sincerely think they are better and more moral that you. I have witnessed this with my own eyes. That snobbery is real. I think its a minority of that social class that believe it, but its a real thing. Once you observe (and maybe live) genuine snobbery, its hard to unsee it.

[@stevenlightfoot6479]

The comments at 52 mins are really interesting. I am almost done Rob;s book, love the guy and have a lot of empathy for him and his family. But it has been my observation that the freak type accidents (shooting in this case) happen disproportionately often to people who are already in difficult situations. The reverse Mathew Effect I think.

[@Godocker]

"I was just slinging fries... so anyway I was just playing ketchup"

[@pennyappellatia]

Immediately after 9/11, an Ivy League professor wrote a paper about how free speech could no longer exist due to the technology and the internet. The premise was that someone on another continent might be offended at your speech and go to war over it.

[@beanbrew]

As a Southerner, I consider someone from the NE saying y’all is cultural appropriation.