On a more serious note, John has the real take-down of Bennett's thought police critics, while Jeff has the linguistic analysis worthy of Orwell. Jeff has it nailed: it's indeed a slippery slope ceding ANYTHING to the liberal thought police. Just say no.
Bennett's real problem was his unwillingness to point out the obvious: Blacks (as well as Hispanics by the way) have a crime rate that is multiples of the white population. And as Steve Sailer points out, the arguments that it's due to discrimination are absurd. One take on it even suggests that the Black violent crime rate may be as much as 50 times higher than for Whites.
Of course, this is the "Elephant in the room" that Bennett was crucified for assuming that his audience knew. The liberal thought police will always crucify you for implying numerical truths that happen to make them look like gibbering idiots.
There's also a second elephant here exposed obliquely by Scrappleface: the Black abortion rate is approximately 3 times that of whites. And Margeret Sanger, the founder of Planned Parenthood actually did have an agenda of lowering minority birth rates. Shocked that PPM had it's actual origins partially in Nazi emulation? You shouldn't be -- their calling conservative's Nazis for wanting to SAVE LIFE fits a little better into the liberal projection obsession now, no?
Even though Sailer is skeptical of TPM's White-Trash transference theory for Black crime rates, it turns out that on more rigorous analysis, there is much to it. The intellectual giant, Thomas Sowell, has put the pieces together for us in "Black Rednecks and White Liberals". You need to read it. Did I mention that Thomas Sowell is black? And a true intellect who is probably about a dozen times smarter than I am -- never mind your average liberal humanities prof...
Bottom line is that when the facts are all brought out into daylight, you would have to be innumerate to argue that Bennett was wrong to connect the elephants and use "black babies" in his example (and he was equally correct to immediately point out this was not moral to pursue!). And he could have used "hispanic babies" and gotten a similar outcry -- and have been nearly as factually correct.
Just not politically correct. Hence the inevitable screams from the
Venality? Innumeracy?
Yes.
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