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Originally Posted by Manx
Where did I use the words "minorities/immigrants/whatever"?
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Where did I say you did? Are there quotes around that statement?
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Originally Posted by Manx
If there are racist undertones to "lowest percentile", a mathematical axiom, you are putting them there.
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I didn't write the studies that consistently show recent immigrants and minorities bringing up the rear in terms of income. If a right-winger had written your sentence, he'd be accused of using "code words."
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Originally Posted by Manx
As for your opinion that social support for the lowest percentile implies they cannot rise on their own merit, that's just pure nonsense based on the myth of equality.
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With fourth-generation welfare recipients, and $5 TRILLION spent with no reduction in the level of poverty, I'd say the Great Society is the granddaddy of all myths.
But if I understand you correctly, you agree that people from all socioeconomic strata can improve their lives on their own merit.
I'd therefore like to know why others are then forced to provide them with money or money equivalents. For that matter, who is entitled to decide which ones should be given the fruits of the labor of others?
You?