In political communication, the "soft bigotry of low expectations" is an expression describing the practice of holding lower expectations for individuals or groups based on characteristics such as rac
Michael Gerson, who coined the phrase as a speechwriter for George W. Bush
Bill Maher, who occasionally used the expression on Real Time with Bill Maher.
George W. Bush campaigning in New Hampshire during the 2000 United States presidential election, in which he popularized the phrase.
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A self-fulfilling prophecy is a prediction that comes true at least in part as a result of a person's belief or expectation that the prediction would come true. In the phenomena, people tend to act th
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