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From: muratlanne@gmail.com
"Blue Lives Matter" wrote in message
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On Thu, 3 Apr 2025 03:04:26 -0000 (UTC), Baxter
wrote:
>"Jim Wilkins" wrote in
>news:vskoor$3acmk$1@dont-email.me:
>> I would have more respect for the Dems if they helped the needy learn
>> to support themselves instead of rewarding them for staying "poor" (by
>> their definition) and dependent. But a person can't teach what they
>> don't know.
>>
>> With their liberal arts degrees, why aren't they at least volunteering
>> en masse to help legal immigrants learn English?
>>
>>
>Ah, the old Tough Love, assistance makes dependance BS myth. Fact is,
>they did experiments where they just gave homeless money, and in a short
>time over have had worked their way into permanent housing. They got OFF
>drugs. Etc.
Nonsense....
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In Statistics class I learned how to covertly bias group selection to
"prove" whatever you want. For example calling home phones during working
hours over-samples the unemployed despite appearing random. Finding a truly
representative sample of voters to predict or understand an election is very
difficult.
https://magazine.uc.edu/issues/0805/misled.html
There are certainly ambitious people from disadvantaged backgrounds who
needed a little help to advance, my father for instance. The Southern
admonishment "Don't get above your raisin" shows the barrier to be broken.
https://www.100daysinappalachia.com/2021/06/how-a-common-phrase-
ecame-a-life-lesson-a-young-appalachian-on-getting-above-your-raising/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acting_white
https://health.clevelandclinic.org/code-switching
The biographies of Eddie Rickenbacker and Booker T. Washington describe
their youthful struggles, critical first break and rapid self-improvement.
--- SoupGate-DOS v1.05
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