Noun
soft bigotry of low expectations (uncountable)
The practice of expecting less from members of a disadvantaged group and thus implicitly encouraging those people not to reach their full potential.
Some say it is unfair to hold disadvantaged children to rigorous standards. I say it is discrimination to require anything less–-the soft bigotry of low expectations. George W. Bush
I still think in this country, and this might surprise you, the one thing that George Bush said as president that I do agree with, I love that phrase, 'the soft bigotry of low expectations.' Tavis Smiley
That is still the case in this country for too many students, the soft bigotry of low expectations. If you don't expect them to learn, if you don't expect them to succeed - then it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. Tavis Smiley
One can fall into the soft bigotry of low expectations. Gerald Chertavian