Nate Duehr wrote:

> It's why the elite crew hate Palin with a passion... she's not part of 
> the high-society club.
> 
> Switch her with a minority who came up from the "ghetto" instead of the 
> "trailer park" and instead of calling her "trailer trash" she'd be 
> heralded as a "success" story.
> 

? That, and ... I'd rather not get into politics.
How did you get from Harvard to Sarah Palin? What does Harvard have to
do with that at all?

> Have her sent to college on someone else's dime, er... I mean an 
> Affirmative Action grant, and the accolades would be flying.
> 
> I'm FAR from racist, I just point out the obvious here:

If you have to preface it with "I'm [not] racist" there's a problem.

> 
> White people from poor backgrounds are now seen as "crooks" and "trailer 
> trash" when they claw their way out of poverty, and minorities are 
> heralded as "successes" when they climb out.

In your head?

> 
> BOTH are the American Dream story, but society values one more than the 
> other right now.  Interesting, isn't it?

Again, according to whom?

> 
> Is it a sign that people inherently know you can't get out of poverty in 
> a single generation without genius-level abilities or cheating, or is it 
> something even stranger than that?
> 
> Is the poverty gap that big that we instinctively know something's wrong 
>   when someone goes from poor to rich?  Or are we all just petty and 
> jealous?  Tough questions that not too many are willing to ask.
> 
> (Try getting a grant to study the above.  Ha.)
> 
> Nate

End of thread for me.. I've taken a pledge to only argue politics on
Tuesdays and Thursdays.

-
Martin
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