Why are people jumping all over William Bennett?

[75th]

Why is promoting self respect a bad policy?

Why is answering a yes or no question so difficult?

Do you agree with the notion that reperations should be paid to the family's of former slaves?

 

[gjohnson5]

Goodness, how can I be asking the wrong question when the yes or no answer is the exact thing that I am curious about?

Why don't you "read" my two posts??/ isn't that what you accused me of not doing earlier in the thread?

The answer lies within the two posts. You just have to "dig" the answer out

 

[75th]

Why don't you "read" my two posts??/ isn't that what you accused me of not doing earlier in the thread?

The answer lies within the two posts. You just have to "dig" the answer out

I dont like reading melodramatic, philosophical garble when I ask a simple yes or no question.

It defeats the purpose of asking the yes or no question.

If I asked "What are your thoughts on the the mindset of...." then I wouldnt mind reading a few paragraphs of garbage.

 

[gjohnson5]

I dont like reading melodramatic, philosophical garble when I ask a simple yes or no question.

It defeats the purpose of asking the yes or no question.

If I asked "What are your thoughts on the the mindset of...." then I wouldnt mind reading a few paragraphs of garbage.

As I said earlier

You're not as smart as I thought U were...

 

[gjohnson5]

Why is answering a yes or no question so difficult?

Do you agree with the notion that reperations should be paid to the family's of former slaves?

Dude , you've got this "OWNED" sign by all your posts so I can't read what your saying , lol

 

[75th]

As I said earlier

Your as dumb as I thought you were.

At least one of us was right.

 

[Peshmerga]

were trying to go forward not backwards.

I agree with forward progress. I'm just stating a cold, hard fact of life. I didn't say I agree with it. Political correctness is as assinine as bigotry

 

[Peshmerga]

Why is promoting self respect a bad policy?

I didn't say that. Just throwing some cold water on the topic and statin a basic, hard to accept reality about our society. I think it is a fucked up part of our society, but it is reality. Promoting self respect is a great policy.

 

[WODIN]

I'm not a huge fan of Bill "Virtues" Bennett, esp after the gambling stories broke, but it seems he was making a reasonable point of logic and rhetoric with this counter-argument in responding to the crime-abortion relationship posited by a radio show caller, and I'll bet the book he (the caller) was referencing for this question is the one I bought the other day called "Freakanomics" which addresses exactly these sorts of relationships, and argues that more readily available abortions to the poor in the 60's & 70's had a lot more to do with the reduction of crime in the 80's than the effects of more aggressive policing, which is usually credited with the drop in crime rates.

In any case why is everyone, including the White House, behaving like idiots. As an example about the limits of means (in his opinion) he answers this question by positing a ridiculous counter-scenario, (which he condemns, in strong language). I'm not seeing what's there to be outraged by. You may or may not think his counter-argument had merit, but it hardly dis-respected black people.



Then, of course, you have far-left hypocrites calling for his show to be cancelled.



And this next one from an actual civil rights leader. Gimme a break.



I know that its a fad these days to attack everything and everybody that has an (R) next to their name when they comment during newscasts, but this is rediculous.

It is an economic reality that the lower a given population is then more resources are available for consumers on a per capita basis. This in turn negates a great deal of the negative impacts on an economy such as robbery. It's really a quite simple notion that if everyone in a given economy is able to obtain what they want and need through legal means then crime will not be a viable option given moral constraints.

Overpopulation on the other hand leads towards a marginalized group who can not find work and therefor engage in a variety of property related crimes.

Bennet simply could have argued that this conclusion was false and gone with the policing argument or the moral constraints argument being applical regardless of population. Yet his choice was to go to saying kill of the black babbies.

Given all the choices available then why go there? It's not that his premise can not be argued for or against with a wide array of data so why?

 

[gjohnson5]

It is an economic reality that the lower a given population is then more resources are available for consumers on a per capita basis. This in turn negates a great deal of the negative impacts on an economy such as robbery. It's really a quite simple notion that if everyone in a given economy is able to obtain what they want and need through legal means then crime will not be a viable option given moral constraints.

Overpopulation on the other hand leads towards a marginalized group who can not find work and therefor engage in a variety of property related crimes.

Bennet simply could have argued that this conclusion was false and gone with the policing argument or the moral constraints argument being applical regardless of population. Yet his choice was to go to saying kill of the black babbies.

Given all the choices available then why go there? It's not that his premise can not be argued for or against with a wide array of data so why?

Exactly. You know it's interesting how multiple people can "read" the same text and get completely differnt interpretations on the same words...
My take (and the take other took obviously or his should wouldn't have been canceled) was that his examples were pajorative and his intent was infact to dehumanize

Not sure why that's soo hardfor some people on here to understand , but maybe they should "read" thier own words