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<blockquote data-quote="LibertyTurns" data-source="post: 592092" data-attributes="member: 789"><p>What you saw at mutt U was the insidious form of racism many of us on here yammer about, the soft bigotry of low expectations. I hate this is a Bush term, because he was such a mealy mouthed politician. It’s this form of prejudicial bias where human beings are subconsciously ingrained with preconceptions regarding segments of our population that result in interactions, policies, decisions, etc being made which have the result of passively restraining people from attaining success. This type of mindset is borne out of & sustained/exacerbated by continuing efforts to try to level outcomes across the population instead of trying to level opportunities.</p><p></p><p>When I was growing up a close friend of mine’s ancestry included Nubians hence he was much more dark skinned than me by a long shot & certainly much more than the predominantly blue collar massively liberal Irish & Italian immigrant neighborhood I grew up in. The next town over was half African American & the other half was Polish and German American. He got the nickname N****, told to move next town over, etc on a daily basis. It was tough on him but he persevered & graduated top of our class, went to Naval Academy then an Astronaut. His parents wouldn’t allow him to fight which obviously caused him other issues early on, but to their credit nobody relented and he beat them at their own game. He’s where he is at having accomplished quite a bit & they’re still for the most part where they’re at. Really funny in retrospect the 2 least white guys from conservative families have moved along & the white liberals are mostly stuck in the same crap they grew up in.</p><p></p><p>I’ve seen people’s outcomes go many different ways in my lifetime. Nearly 100% of the time it has come down to will that person work hard, persevere through adversity & have a will to succeed. Has not mattered be it that person is a professional, tradesman or something else.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="LibertyTurns, post: 592092, member: 789"] What you saw at mutt U was the insidious form of racism many of us on here yammer about, the soft bigotry of low expectations. I hate this is a Bush term, because he was such a mealy mouthed politician. It’s this form of prejudicial bias where human beings are subconsciously ingrained with preconceptions regarding segments of our population that result in interactions, policies, decisions, etc being made which have the result of passively restraining people from attaining success. This type of mindset is borne out of & sustained/exacerbated by continuing efforts to try to level outcomes across the population instead of trying to level opportunities. When I was growing up a close friend of mine’s ancestry included Nubians hence he was much more dark skinned than me by a long shot & certainly much more than the predominantly blue collar massively liberal Irish & Italian immigrant neighborhood I grew up in. The next town over was half African American & the other half was Polish and German American. He got the nickname N****, told to move next town over, etc on a daily basis. It was tough on him but he persevered & graduated top of our class, went to Naval Academy then an Astronaut. His parents wouldn’t allow him to fight which obviously caused him other issues early on, but to their credit nobody relented and he beat them at their own game. He’s where he is at having accomplished quite a bit & they’re still for the most part where they’re at. Really funny in retrospect the 2 least white guys from conservative families have moved along & the white liberals are mostly stuck in the same crap they grew up in. I’ve seen people’s outcomes go many different ways in my lifetime. Nearly 100% of the time it has come down to will that person work hard, persevere through adversity & have a will to succeed. Has not mattered be it that person is a professional, tradesman or something else. [/QUOTE]
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