On the flipside, it's where rich, elitist people shut out the lesser folk, and call the cops on suspicious hoopties that get lost delivering pizza.
It's all about perception... :-/
Wait a minute! Some negative recruiter put this in his lexicon? Are you all for real?
It was nice that in a round-about way a group of you could put together a cross-cultural representation of the concept. But;
A) The reporter in a
tweet said, "which he calls "like a gated community". . . " I used double ellipses, to show the only words she even said he used were four.
B) The fact that seventy percent of America has a negative opinion of gated communities; and sixty percent of America will never see the inside of one.
C) I just mentioned the resentment some that don't value or have the ability to compile vast amount of money have for those that do, in another thread. Most kids, (far from all) that are going to play college football don't come from an environment that has copious amounts of money, let alone enough to invest in gated communities to keep others out. In fact, they are more likely to come from the others.
This isn't an anti-IE rant, or anything against a single user here. But come on guys! What do you think people do from State U to keep ND from establishing absolute dominance in the college football world? Call it negative recruiting if you want. But I remember when a parent of a kid I coached over thirty years ago, told another kid, a teammate of his kid, that he must not like girls if he went to the Jesuit all boys high school that he wanted to attend. (My old high school.) He was inferring that his desire to attend had some correlation to his sexual orientation. I asked this parent about whether he said that and when he admitted it I just laughed. He knew why. This guy had attended the
other all guys high school!
It happens every day. And it is so easy when it just amplifies our already installed, personal prejudices. Every day!
