LA Times Columnist Joel Stein had a piece in yesterday's paper
claiming (based on his opinion and about an NPR listener level of
information) that peanut allergies are an invention of rich white
people because said people just want to feel "special."
Now let
me tell you, I am as happy to gang up on rich white people and their
narcissistic parenting styles as anyone, but my daughter's good
friend--an African American friend, a member of a population Stein
claims doesn't have serious issues with peanut allergies--has been to
the ER 3 times in four years after accidentally eating something with
peanuts. She might well have died on at least one of those occasions
if not for her father's quick epi-pen action.
I know that one example does not break a rule of thumb and perhaps it is true that
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