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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (253261)9/30/2005 7:18:19 PM
From: tejek  Read Replies (2) of 1571904
 
So let me do you a favor and tell you what the liberal media won't tell you: Mr. Bennett was talking about the liberal correlation between an increase in abortions and a reduction in crime. His statement about blacks is just a straw man argument to demonstrate what sort of conclusions are possible when you make such correlations between abortion and crime.

Whether its a straw man or not is unimportant. The point is Bennet believes the best way to reduce crime is to prevent the birth of black children. First, the utter stupidity of making such a statement publicly in a country as racially diverse as this one. Its hard to believe that GOPers are this stupid.......but there you go. Apparently, they forget to censor their private thoughts when in a public setting.

Secondly, while its true, that blacks commit a greater share of the crimes relative to their population size, its also true that poor people in general commit more crimes than the general population. Its plausible that killing off blacks may not change the crime rate at all. The American economic system may be structured in such a way that it 'guarantees' a certain proportion of the population will be poor; and that if the black population is suppressed through abortion, Latinos or Asians or whites may very well pick up the slack and make up a greater share of the poor in this country, allowing the crime rate to remain fairly constant.

The critical point is there should be a law against Republicans speaking out publicly. They are unable to hide their elitist tendencies and end up enflaming racial tensions in this country.

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