Notorious moral scold and compulsive gambler, William Bennett has just said one of the stupidest fucking things I’ve ever heard.
I find his qualification at the end to be weaselly and beside the point. Acknowledging that it would be impossible and immoral to actually do it completely sidesteps the more offensive suggestion that black people are responsible for crime and that if there were only white people the crime rate would be less.
II’m not surprised that Bennett would harbor these kinds of feelings but I am surprised that someone as publicly experienced as he is would be stupid enough to speak them out loud.
Just in case your reading glasses need re-adjusting – unfortunately, I doubt there’s a procedure for your so-called ‘brain’ – try reading this bit again:
What I find more interesting from your link is the call for censorship from this crowd. From Rep. Conyers, who as a member of Congress should know better:
This surprises you? Where were you doing Katrina? It’s almost aceptable to call us niggers again.
Hyperbole aside, the events after Katrina would have opened my eyes to the fact that race relations have come no where near as far as most white people would like to believe. Luckily I didn’t need the wake up call.
Oh for Christ’s sake, people. Lighten the fuck up. Strap the knees to the chair and live a little. You do realize Bennet is a talk-show host, right? You realize he has no power to set any policy concerning this? His rhetoric is based on gaining a niche following and some cash. Same as any loony leftie. Loons are loons. If we can poke fun and chide one side, the other should be open as well. Or are you too fucking sensitive for that?
That Bennett doesn’t have a right to a radio show?
I find the whole process of ‘offensive’ statement>calls for an apology>insincere apology>blah blah blah to be totally boring, but still, this is an usually shocking and awful thing to say. If a shock jock on the radio said this, I think he’d be suspended and then fired three days later.
I can’t believe you people. Somebody says systematically aborting you all would be good for the country because you’re natural born criminals and you can’t take a joke. Sheez. Must be a black thing.
Had I been born black and thirty years earlier I’ve no doubt whatsoever that I’ve had been way more admiring of Malcolm X than of MLK (still am, actually) and it’s because of assholes like this. How… the… the fuck… he…
I’m not a big fan of politicians calling for people to get pulled from the air, but until they actually try to compel it with the force of law, it’s not a free speech issue.
Um, why not? I believe the First Amendment protects Mr. Bennett (and the Salem Network) just as much as the next guy. If he wants to say it, and Salem wants to broadcast it, what’s the problem?
Yup, busted. I’m the Anti-Christ. I sit at the right-hand of Howard Stern. I want all blacks dead. Not now, before they are born! I read the quote and just popped one off in my pants. The excitement. The fantasy! Oh, were it so!!
How anyone read into that first reply that I want all minorities killed is beyond me. Says a lot about those Dopers though. At least now I know what some people think no matter what forum I’m in. :rolleyes:
The first amendment prevents the government from making any LAW abridging the freedom of speech. No one you quoted has proposed making illegal for Bennett to remain on the air or to remove him by force. They are still free to ask his company to fire him and his company is free to tell them to fuck off. Until the government actually to directly prevent him from speaking, there is no civil rights violation.
I don’t know if it’s true, since while the aborted critters would lead to a decrease in the crimes numerator, they would also not count in the per capita denominator:
Old Total Crime Rate (per 10,000 persons) = 10,000*(Total Number of Crimes)/(Total Number of People)
Hypothetical Aborted Crime Rate (per 10,000 persons) = 10,000*(Total Number of Original Crimes - Total Number of Crimes Prevented by Total Black Abortions)/(Original Number of People - Number of Blacks Aborted)
Yes, you’re getting a smaller crime count on top, but you’re also using a smaller denominator on bottom.