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Re: Bennett IS unworthy of being used as toilet paper
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Thu, 6 Oct 2005 20:29:37 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, John Neal wrote:
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Bruce Schlickbernd wrote: • -snippity snip snip-
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3. You aren’t making a racially
based insinuation that blacks are the source of crime.
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But they are a source of crime! And disproportionately so. Not the
source of crime, but Bennett doesn’t assert this anyway.
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This is the part that is making everyone upset. Bennett is saying that blacks
are a large source of crime, and is linking “criminality” to “blackness.” He IS
using reducio ad absurdum, but he is using it on the issue of abortion, not the
connection between blacks and crime.
Even then, I would be hard pressed to accept “blacks are a source of crime”
because such a statement is blatantly ignoring the depth and complexity of the
issue and replacing it with a racist simplification. You could argue about the
high crime rate associated with blacks, but taking that statistical fact and
going a step further to say “blacks are a source of crime” is a big rhetorical
step.
-Lenny
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