Melissa Harris-Perry’s quote will live on in infamy:
“We have to break through our kind of private idea that kids belong to their parents”
Doubling down didn’t help.
.@mharrisperry Sorry to “persecute” you, but the reason you can’t make your students’ parents grade their papers is: You’re getting paid to.
— Jim Treacher (@jtLOL) April 10, 2013
We know what Lady Thatcher would have tweeted at Harris-Perry:
Margaret Thatcher responds to Melissa Harris-Perry: twitter.com/AmityShlaes/st…
— Whitney Pitcher (@whitneypitcher) April 10, 2013
“And you know, there’s no such thing as society. There are individual men and women and there are families.”–Margaret Thatcher, 1987
— Amity Shlaes (@AmityShlaes) April 10, 2013
“They are casting their problems at society. And, you know, there’s no such thing as society. There are individual men and women and there are families. And no government can do anything except through people, and people must look after themselves first. It is our duty to look after ourselves and then, also, to look after our neighbours.” – in an interview in Women’s Own in 1987