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Well, your second example is often used by a certain class of right-winger to explain why welfare is a bad idea. The poor don't deserve support, because if you were deserving God, gods or chance would have made you rich.
by Colman (colman at eurotrib.com) on Wed Jun 24th, 2009 at 06:01:46 AM EST
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the first argument is used to argue for something which is really based on the second one... because poor whites can support breaking solidarity for the Arabs while they probably would not support that as heartily is if where specifically about the poor.

In other words, the race card allows to define deserving poor and undeserving poor, and make the poor fight between themselves rather than against their common economic foe.

In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes

by Jerome a Paris (etg@eurotrib.com) on Wed Jun 24th, 2009 at 06:15:17 AM EST
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