What Bennett Said
Here's a quote of what Bennett said:
"But I do know that it's true that if you wanted to reduce crime, you could -- if that were your sole purpose, you could abort every black baby in this country, and your crime rate would go down. That would be an impossible, ridiculous, and morally reprehensible thing to do, but your crime rate would go down. So these far-out, these far-reaching, extensive extrapolations [about abortion] are, I think, tricky."
The factual basis for the remark is that the majority of crime in America is black-on-black, followed shortly by black-on-white. That is a fact. Facts are uncomfortable things sometimes, but the truth can be that way. Most liberals cringe when they hear things like that and for someone to repeat them is probably physically painful for them. Bennett did not offer any judgement of why those are the facts, he simply uttered the statement because the truthful basis is there.
So, analyzing what Bennett said, if some entity's sole purpose was to reduce crime, then one way to do that would be to reduce the number of black people in America. This is simple mathematics: if a percentage of crime is committed by black people, fewer black people means less crime. The unspoken corollary is that fewer white people would mean less crime as well. He does not ever say that he wishes we would do that or that doing it is even remotely acceptable. In fact he is using this as an rhetorical example of why the calculating nature of the pro-abortion faction in America is morally reprehensible, hence his use of the phrase "morally reprehensible." He is illustrating why this attitude is a slippery slope that leads to abominations like eugenics.
Was it a clunky rhetorical outing on his part? Probably. I might have gone about it in a different way. Was it bigoted? Not even remotely and no one can demonstrate rationally that it is.
As I said before, Bennett, as is his wont to do, has exposed two truths that liberals don't want to deal with honestly, so in true form, the Democrat demagogue marionettes went to work, employing juvenile tactics. Pelosi's remarks are no more accurate or high-minded than Beavis and Butthead snickering over a double entendre.
"But I do know that it's true that if you wanted to reduce crime, you could -- if that were your sole purpose, you could abort every black baby in this country, and your crime rate would go down. That would be an impossible, ridiculous, and morally reprehensible thing to do, but your crime rate would go down. So these far-out, these far-reaching, extensive extrapolations [about abortion] are, I think, tricky."
The factual basis for the remark is that the majority of crime in America is black-on-black, followed shortly by black-on-white. That is a fact. Facts are uncomfortable things sometimes, but the truth can be that way. Most liberals cringe when they hear things like that and for someone to repeat them is probably physically painful for them. Bennett did not offer any judgement of why those are the facts, he simply uttered the statement because the truthful basis is there.
So, analyzing what Bennett said, if some entity's sole purpose was to reduce crime, then one way to do that would be to reduce the number of black people in America. This is simple mathematics: if a percentage of crime is committed by black people, fewer black people means less crime. The unspoken corollary is that fewer white people would mean less crime as well. He does not ever say that he wishes we would do that or that doing it is even remotely acceptable. In fact he is using this as an rhetorical example of why the calculating nature of the pro-abortion faction in America is morally reprehensible, hence his use of the phrase "morally reprehensible." He is illustrating why this attitude is a slippery slope that leads to abominations like eugenics.
Was it a clunky rhetorical outing on his part? Probably. I might have gone about it in a different way. Was it bigoted? Not even remotely and no one can demonstrate rationally that it is.
As I said before, Bennett, as is his wont to do, has exposed two truths that liberals don't want to deal with honestly, so in true form, the Democrat demagogue marionettes went to work, employing juvenile tactics. Pelosi's remarks are no more accurate or high-minded than Beavis and Butthead snickering over a double entendre.
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