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Message: [QUOTE="OttoMets, post: 2167235, member: 716"] "Whenever you feel like criticizing anyone, just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had." Everyone could stand to read that. But it is insulting when someone says or suggests that a kid who had a rough upbringing should be handled with kid gloves, treated with a different set of rules, because of that. Talk about the soft bigotry of low expectations. And it's asinine that anyone would, in the same breath, defend Eskridge's opinion while impugning texascpa for expressing his. Are some opinions more valuable than others? Of course. But I disagree wholeheartedly with this glorification of ignorance, the suggestion that some "privileged" party has less right to opine -- and that his statement has less merit -- because of that relative privilege. [SIZE=6][/SIZE] [/QUOTE]