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Originally Posted by icecube
Far less offensive than someone dumb enough to think that Black's, Latinos and North America's indigenous people are in the lowest caste of society (generally speaking) because they just don't work as hard as the immigrants do. Yep, nothing to do with the intergenerational impacts of things like slavery, assimilation policies and other ongoing forms of systemic racism. It's just because they're inherently lazy and dumber!
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You're right, it's not as bad as that. I wasn't trying to equalize it to that either though. And to back pedal a little, what I articulated as lack of motivation to try, I really meant feelings of hopelessness. They are related ideas as people who feel the system is against them are more likely to feel hopeless and people without hope have little reason to want to play within that system.
I would compare it more to like when people say that someone is good at sprinting or basketball because they are black, or that Asians are successful in business because they are good at math. Those types of statements diminish the hard work of people who are successful and also insinuate that people of those races that aren't successful are bigger failures.
I get it though, it's satire and hyperbole and it certainly makes a valid point about African Americans being historically underprivileged. The system is certainly not set up to benefit people without resources and there is no denying that African Americans are disproportionally represented in that group.