A '''double standard''' holds a harsher attitude against someone or something than one holds about himself or strangers, sometimes without realizing it. Causes of double standards include lack of forgiveness and political bias. Conservapedia opposes double standards, but is ignorant to the ones in its failed party.
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A '''double standard''' holds a harsher attitude against someone or something than one holds about himself or strangers, sometimes without realizing it. Causes of double standards include lack of forgiveness and political bias.
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For instance, the Arlington Independent School District in Texas, which denied students any opportunity to watch Obama's back to school address during school hours (as to allow the students to make up their own mind and not be swayed by bias portrayals of either party at a young age) shortly later offered to bus students to an off-campus event during the school day at which former president George W. Bush was speaking[2]. The district later apologized after realizing this apparent double standard.
Many people undergo dramatic life changes when they wake up to how they were applying a double standard, as in:
Many people undergo dramatic life changes when they wake up to how they were applying a double standard, as in: