Sentences with phrase «when underclass»

Wallis in contrast, argues that «we have no right to be shocked» when underclass youth behave like violent, selfish materialists, because of the «moral pollution of rampant consumerism» the culture pumps into them.

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Nothing wrong with a guy promoting his beliefs, but these whiny attempts to play the victim, as if atheism seriously represents some sort of downtrodden, oppressed underclass in an age when the nation has never been more secularized, are especially comical when performed beneath a giant banner proclaiming «REASON!»

I suspected when I first heard this claim that the Committee on the Status of Black Americans, loaded as it was with social scientists, had demolished a straw man, a bloodless construct so rigidly defined as to be meaningless in terms of the actual lives of the humans who inhabit the nation's ghettos and who, for the most part, make up what has come to be called the underclass.

Mr Duncan Smith, who when first an MP and then as leader was considered a right - wing Conservative, has won plaudits for «re-inventing» himself as a champion of the underclass and someone who puts forward solutions to try and heal broken Britain.

New American auteurs Ben and Josh Safdie have moved away from the unhurried style of their earlier films (Daddy Longlegs, Heaven Knows What), producing a tense, funny crime film set over one terrible night when everything goes wrong for its underclass crim protagonists.

Murray thus draws a picture of Fishtown, working - class America, supplemented by ethnographic reports on the real Fishtown, that is not far short of the «underclass» that was so widely discussed 30 years ago, when it was thought that white working - class America was in good shape.

All those greats that you could admire from history that when you later hear their words supporting sterilising the underclass leaves a bad taste a dubious patina that should make you wary of the puffed up experts.