Bill Bennet: Huge Fucking Dufus

[mburbank]

"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 impossibly ridiculous and morally reprehensible thing to do, but your crime rate would go down,"

Okay, Bennet thinks this statement isn't racist, 'cause he said that aborting all black babies would be bad.

Which just shows he's racist and a dufus. Here's why the statement is racist, and the fact he doesn't get that makes him worse. The statement is nearly pointless to begin with, and the choice of blacks is totally pointless, because:

you could abort every white baby in this country and your crime rate would go down.

you could abort every hispanic, or eskimo, of korean baby in this country and your crime rate would go down.

Hell, there's a statistical probability that if you aborted every hermaphrodite baby in this country, the crime rate would go down.

So why, to make the point that aborting babies is a bad way of dealing with crime, choose blacks as the group of babies to be aborted. Their is an INHERENT ASSUMPTION in the statement that Blacks are the primary source of crime. After you realize that you can then go on to consider why Bennet thinks that such a loathsome thought experiment is worth bringing up at all to prove a negative. OF COURSE that would be impossibly ridiculous and morally reprehensible thing to do; Was someone putting it on the table?

I want to know the FULL context of this remark. How did the discussion of ends versus means come up? What did the caller suggest that made Bennet think a good way to illustrate ends not justifying means was to posit genocide as a crime prevention method?

Maybe someoby bet him he couldn't say something that stupid. The man does like gambling.