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<blockquote data-quote="Dannyalcatraz" data-source="post: 6657649" data-attributes="member: 19675"><p>1) Yes, there are people who are abusing the system- I know a lot of them. But there is also a lot more to poverty than not "getting a job".</p><p></p><p>My maternal aunt is poor. She works @6 days a week. Sometimes 7.</p><p></p><p>Her youngest son is poor. He has trouble getting enough hours at work to make money. Places that are hiring right now and pay better and/or have better work schedules are too far away to walk. But he currently can't afford any vehicle, and there is no public transportation here.</p><p></p><p>2) not being poor doesn't insulate you from racism. If you look, there are all kinds of news stories out the about blacks in the middle class or even 1% getting treated like crooks in retail settings. I am one.</p><p></p><p>3) there are other dynamics to racially stereotyping people's views of their fellow human beings than merely being exposed to their poorest or their social misfits. Merely being beaten out for a job promotion by a black, a woman or other workplace minority has been shown to increase negative feelings towards those groups in white males in ways that losing out to another white male does not. There is complex psychology going on: the defeated assumption that the job was theirs gets replaced by an assumption that the person they lost out to got it solely because they had some special treatment, either by law or some kind of "political correctness" impetus by management.</p><p></p><p></p><p>True. But I'll go further: the hardest thing to do is to dissociate race (or gender, or sexual identity or religion) from surface patterns of failure or success. They may contribute in some ways, but culture is a bigger culprit.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Dannyalcatraz, post: 6657649, member: 19675"] 1) Yes, there are people who are abusing the system- I know a lot of them. But there is also a lot more to poverty than not "getting a job". My maternal aunt is poor. She works @6 days a week. Sometimes 7. Her youngest son is poor. He has trouble getting enough hours at work to make money. Places that are hiring right now and pay better and/or have better work schedules are too far away to walk. But he currently can't afford any vehicle, and there is no public transportation here. 2) not being poor doesn't insulate you from racism. If you look, there are all kinds of news stories out the about blacks in the middle class or even 1% getting treated like crooks in retail settings. I am one. 3) there are other dynamics to racially stereotyping people's views of their fellow human beings than merely being exposed to their poorest or their social misfits. Merely being beaten out for a job promotion by a black, a woman or other workplace minority has been shown to increase negative feelings towards those groups in white males in ways that losing out to another white male does not. There is complex psychology going on: the defeated assumption that the job was theirs gets replaced by an assumption that the person they lost out to got it solely because they had some special treatment, either by law or some kind of "political correctness" impetus by management. True. But I'll go further: the hardest thing to do is to dissociate race (or gender, or sexual identity or religion) from surface patterns of failure or success. They may contribute in some ways, but culture is a bigger culprit. [/QUOTE]
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