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72. “Leaving Black People in the Lurch”

People I (Mostly) Admire

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The Soft Bigotry of Low Expectation

I've heard this phrase, the soft bigotry of low expectation. And it seems to me that's the biggest risk associated with the woke world view. I think that there's a tendency to not expect enough out of black people. We need to get past this idea that if black people aren't good at something in the current time slice, then it's either because black people are deficient or somebody doesn't want them to do it. That's a roughly second grade approach to how social history actually works.

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