Why does the Left love creepy polysyllabic euphemisms that obscure reality? 'Underprivileged' means 'poor'. Why not just say 'poor'?
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Why not just say "ineffective"? Or "unambitious"? Or "cognitively lacking"? Or "dysfunctional"? Or "inept"? "Poor" itself is a euphemism.
'Poor' means lacking money. That's what 'underprivileged' means, in practice. It's just laden with theoretical bias.
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"Underprivileged" is a thick concept http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thick_concept …. "Poor" not so much.
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Good reference. 'Thick concept' seems to mean 'dripping with ideological moralizing'?
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The stigma of the word. It’s used a lot to denigrate. Look at any customer service survey.
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"Underprivileged" seems more like a chronic condition. When Trump had more liabilities than assets, he was not underprivileged or poor.
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Right. Underprivileged expands as less privileged and is only a statement that people are not sampling actions from the same distributions.
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