Bush speech writer and Washington Post columnist Michael Gerson is credited with coining the phrase "soft bigotry of low expectations." It means of course that people often have low expectations of those against whom they are prejudiced ... and low expectations are mostly self-fulfilling.
How else can you explain the media's generally passive acceptance of President Obama's poor performance? They expected little of him, got what they expected, were generally satisfied that he did everything of which he was able, and helped him get reelected.
Would a white male Democrat with the track record of the past six years have been treated by the media as kindly as President Obama? I very much doubt it. If this isn't soft bigotry or racism, what is it?
