Blaming racial minorities for their plight by saying they should be able to "pull themselves up by their own bootstraps" discounts the importance of situational factors.This illustrates

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The statement "pull themselves up by their own bootstraps" is an example of the ultimate attribution error, which involves attributing someone's success or failure solely to their personal characteristics and ignoring situational factors. This is a common bias when it comes to explaining the success or failure of marginalized groups. The primacy effect is when people remember information that they learned first better than information they learned later, and the recency effect is when people remember information that they learned last better than information they learned earlier. Defensive attribution is when people blame the victim in order to protect themselves from a negative outcome. None of these are applicable in this scenario.

Blaming Racial Minorities for Their Plight by Saying They Should