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I'm with Ustwo on this.
Based on the exerpt of the interview, it seems like he was being absurd to make his point. The problem that goes with this is that many people don't understand that satire is supposed to seem absurdly extreme and often offencive, especially if Juvinalian.
If he had left out the word "black" I have a feeling there wouldn't be as much uproar, but he wouldn't have made his point.
Black people are more commonly maginalized than other races.
Marginalized people tend to have less access to resources.
Therefore, black people generally have less access to resources.
When resources aren't there, crime develops.
How does one get more resources? Reduce the amount of people.
Therefore: Reducing the number of marginalized people would reduce the amount of crime.
He then says that this "would be an impossible, ridiculous, and morally reprehensible thing to do,"
It's the same as me saying that "To reduce the amount of rape cases, castrate all men" It's ridiculous for a hundred reasons, and no rational person would consider this anything other than an "impossible, ridiculous, and morally reprehensible thing to do,"
Extremes help point out why things won't work. It helped influence the powers in Swift's time, but unfortunately they were better at understanding satire than we do now-a-days. -_-
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