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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsCovington Catholic High School is an example of an "Exclusive" School.
"Exclusive" derives from the verb "to exclude." We forget those word origins sometimes. An "exclusive neighborhood," an "exclusive club," or an "exclusive school" is just a place that deliberately excludes some people. Typically, such places exclude people of color, poor people, or some other group as part of their bigotry.
Perhaps we should stop using "Exclusive" as a positive adjective. Perhaps we should substitute "Bigoted" instead.
Saying "Covington Catholic High School is a bigoted school" somehow sounds more accurate, doesn't it?
MaryMagdaline
(6,851 posts)greymattermom
(5,751 posts)Make that analogy instead of blaming the whole state. Did all of DC get blamed for Georgetown prep? I'm tired of the DU anti southern prejudice. The anti Southern prejudice at DU is as bad as DUers think racial prejudice is in the South.
Soxfan58
(3,479 posts)Did I miss something? You trying to stir up something?
MineralMan
(146,254 posts)I described the school as an "exclusive" school, and defined what that actually means.
Georgetown Prep is in Maryland, by the way, and it, too, is an "exclusive" school in the same way. It is bigoted.
My post has nothing to do with what state that school is in. The state was never mentioned in my thread.
I don't know where got that, actually.
Soxfan58
(3,479 posts)There IS plenty of Kentucky shaming going on. There are plenty of good people in your State.
MaryMagdaline
(6,851 posts)Its hard enough being liberal in a Southern state. Its hard when everyone assumes you are bigoted.
pintobean
(18,101 posts)MineralMan
(146,254 posts)No, what?
rurallib
(62,379 posts)a group out of society has always bothered me. Has always felt to me that withdrawing from the general society creates more problems than it solves.
Now we have religious schools of all stripes. I am sure that "we are better than society as a whole" is part of the reasoning behind every one of those schools.
MineralMan
(146,254 posts)Gothmog
(144,919 posts)Link to tweet
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