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Originally Posted by Hardknock
Explain where he is right.
How do 12% of the population cause 100% of the crime in this country? Seems to me that blacks are a convient scapegoat for Bennett.
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He did not say that. I'm not sure why you think he did.
He said that if you eliminated all black youth, the crime rate would go down. He assumed that the crime rate among black youth is higher than non-black youth, which is statistically correct. He made the assumption that if we eliminated black youth, other groups would not increase their crime rates to make up the difference; this is less obvious, but probably an acceptable assumption since it was not his point.
A better illustration of his position might have been: "Given that someone who has committed one crime is more likely to commit another than someone who has never committed any crime, If we were to simply execute everyone who has ever even been charged with a crime, the crime rate would go down. But this would be a horrible and reprehensible solution that is worse than the problem."
This is exactly what he was trying to say. Killing (obviously innocent) babies to him is a horrible crime, far worse than the good intention of reducing crime. It's very unfortunate that he used aborting black babies to illustrate his point, but recall that he did not bring it up.