The Tricky Czar
William Bennett, long-time moral zealot and peddler of rightwing hypocrisy, recently said "[Y]ou could abort every black baby in this country, and your crime rate would go down". He goes on to say "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 are, I think, tricky."
He believes these "far-reaching, extensive extrapolations" would be 1) impossible, 2) ridiculous, 3) morally reprehensible, and 4) tricky. I get the feeling Bennett could maneuver around those thorny impossibilities if given the opportunity. He was Reagan's Secretary of Education and more folks became dumber. He was the country's first Drug Czar, long-time cheerleader for the War on Drugs and stiff penalties (which as we know puts more Black men in prison and Florida Bushes in rehab).
Bennett wrote The Death of Outrage, a tale of evil-doings when Clinton & Monica Blow the Oval Office, but the book missed real crime and sneaky demeanors and fed the pundits and newsrooms while the bipartisan boys on Capitol Hill continued to loot the treasury. A must read for all conservative little folks in the Budweiser circle-jerk who yell - Republicans impeached Nixon too! - and - Clinton's crimes are worse! Bennett gave conservatives the talking points for wearing the impeachment of Nixon as a self-awarded "Moral Fitness Badge."
Bennett has written and/or lectured on everything from gays, wife-swapping, drugs, morality, and seems to favor the Old Testament. Of course, when it was reported his own "addiction" was to gambling (losing 1+ million in 2 months at the casinos) he claimed he "just plays the machines for 3 hours to relax." And he's not "playing with the milk money." Would that be if you can afford it – indulge it, according to the Book of Bennett?
In 1989 on Larry King, in agreement with a caller who suggested beheading drug dealers, Bennett stated "it was morally plausible – but legally difficult." It's no surprise Bennett would make the statement : aborting Black babies would lower crime rates. In his moral warped high-mindness he would see it plausibly as deterring future drug dealers. Unless he had some other use in mind for those aborted fetuses. You never know what these guys are hiding behind their Bible.
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Let's try this on for size:
"You could abort every Irish baby in this country and the crime rate would go down."
"You could abort every Italian baby in this country and the crime rate would go down."
How does that feel? Don't like it? How 'bout?
"You could abort every Jewish baby in this country and the crime rate would go down."
Or?
"You could abort every Asian baby in this country and the crime rate would go down."
"You could abort every Christian baby in this country and the crime rate would go down."
"You could abort every white baby in this country and the crime rate would go down."
Does it make your skin crawl yet????
Hate speak by any other name is still hate speak!
Honest to jeesuz, how long do you think Bennett would be free or even ALIVE if he had said any of those things!
This, btw, was a little technique I learned from some former Jewish colleagues of mine. They said, just substitute "xxx" for "yyy" and see how it sounds. I still consider it a brilliant barometer of equality, fairness...
Annemarie Joseph
Canada
I had a Jewish friend tell me the same thing, substitute Jew or Jewish though she said. That's a good barometer.
it's a sad fact that people come to rely on statistics as facts, but fail to take into account the way the legal system operates; who defines what should be considered a 'crime' and those most likely to be apprehended as perpetrators of such 'crimes'
While those among the lower rungs are squabbling over petty issues based on perceived difference (race, ethnicity, religion, cultural values), those atop the perch rest easily knowing they have institutionalized their discrimination so well into our system that it operates almost effortlessly now, propagated relentlessly by the 'herded minions' who have no clue their just basically the elite's bitch carrying out the diry work and distracting well-focused attention from looking up and seeing those behind the curtains setting policy.
Some of the individuals (Americans?)that like to froth over with ugly things to say about people in a group other than their own are so pitiful.
If they themselves are so great, why do they even take the time to use their superb thinking on other groups of people that are so distatesful to them?
If they want to be king in this country why not put the adage "You can catch more flies with honey than vinegar" to use? Then such a person could have the world in his hands. As it is, he has relegated himself to such a weak position by allowing himself to be frustrated by the hate in his on heart. He has tied himself to the lowly masses who love hate others because they think that makes them better than the ones they hate. In fact, he may be one of them (a member of the lowly masses) with a pen and outlet at his disposal. (To my shame, I have never hear of Bennett before). However, if this is what he has to offer, I am better off for never having made his acquintance.
To Mr. Bennett:
"Out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaks" Proverb.
"A man is not what he thinks he is, but what a man thinks, he is."
...author.
and the same but worded slightly differently:
"As a man thinketh, so is he." Proverb
"Guard thy heart with all diligence, for out of it are the issues of life." Proverb
What does the froth the Bennet has bubbled over with make him?
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