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February 22, 2011

End Soft Bigotry Against Arab World

Issandr Amrani, The Guardian

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There is a phrase coined in 2004 by Michael Gerson, a speechwriter for George W Bush best-known for having come up with "axis of evil", that I've always liked. In a speech about education, he bemoaned "the soft bigotry of lowered expectations" that he believed existed against disadvantaged children.

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TAGGED: Morocco, Libya, Arabs

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