CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – According to the Harvard Crimson, there should be a “cap on privilege.” Oh, and the black governor is engaging in population control.

Editorial writer Tez M. Clark opines in a piece with the subtitle “White Noise:”

This summer, Massachusetts Governor Deval L. Patrick ‘78 rather surreptitiously signed a bill that nominally will cut down on welfare fraud. The practical consequences of this bill for Massachusetts’s lower-income families are severe. It will narrow the disability requirements for welfare recipients, and force women to work into their third trimester of pregnancy.

These new obstacles are only additions to an already harsh welfare program, which is funded by Temporary Aid for Needy Families, a federal block grant created in 1996. TANF is allocated to states, primarily for the purposes of funding welfare and was instituted by the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act. One of the components of TANF is a family cap, which financially penalizes families for having children while on TANF by refusing to provide for newer children when calculating benefits.

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“In essence, family caps are a way of reducing reproduction based on class,” she says.

In other words, Patrick – a black man – is engaging in population control “based on class.”

Given elitist and often racial implications of the practice, continuing to impose family caps is an odd choice for a famously liberal state run by an African-American governor. If the Patrick administration is interested in cutting costs, this is not the way to do it.

There are thousands of personal reasons why someone might make the choice to have more children: people want a larger family to look after them in old age. They may have moral objections to contraception. They might believe it is their religious obligation to have more children.

 She takes a swipe at a certain audience of cable news viewers, too:

Fox News offers over-simplified advice to those apparently useless poor people: “Stay in school; get married before having children and stay married; work hard, save and invest.”

Racist terminology is fairly easy to catch. When it comes to class, euphemisms are rampant. Code words for the lower classes can include “uneducated” and “ignorant.” Critics of welfare families intentionally ignore the fact that wealth is linked to access to education, which in turn is linked to careers and income. Instead, they mischaracterize welfare recipients as lazy and wholly responsible for their fate.

But she wasn’t done:

Despite all the rhetoric surrounding rights to abortion and birth control, despite the anger the recent Hobby Lobby decision caused, despite the fact that we in Massachusetts consider ourselves to be liberal and progressive, we are standing by as our politicians try to prevent lower-income women from reproducing. This has to stop.

Strangely, she never really addressed exactly how “privilege” should be capped.

Given the subtitle, it likely has something to do with “white privilege.”

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And Clark must be unaware of her own privilege.

According to the Harvard website, it annually costs “$58,607 for tuition, room, board and fees combined.”