07-04-2019, 11:05 AM
(07-04-2019, 11:00 AM)Baggers link Wrote:Wow, now that's a leap! :o Seems a dis-proportionally angry response.
I dare not tell you that that quote has also been used by working class people looking to get ahead, and a number of female athletes from humble beginnings!
Not to mention that Jefferson's early years were full of trauma and loss of family members but he was a voracious reader and ambitious and rose well above his 'station in life'. Admittedly he did inherit in his early 20s a sizeable block of land but was sensible with his loot and studied hard becoming brilliant at a great variety of things... hardly 'privileged' to begin with. To the astonishment of the people of the times he befriended Native American Indians and did much to aid them... on the 'perceived' negative and hypocritical side, he was a rampant rOOter and would shag any woman who took his fancy!
For every 1 person who does all those things you describe. there are 100 who do exactly the same and don't get anywhere. Not to mention a whole range of subtle and blatant inequalities to do with gender, class, colour, race, ethnicity etc.