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| Facing Reality: Two Truths about Race in America |
| 2021-07-19 |
| h/t Instapundit - it's just a book blurb, but ... The charges of white privilege and systemic racism that are tearing the country apart fIoat free of reality. Two known facts, long since documented beyond reasonable doubt, need to be brought into the open and incorporated into the way we think about public policy: American whites, blacks, Hispanics, and Asians have different violent crime rates and different means and distributions of cognitive ability. The allegations of racism in policing, college admissions, segregation in housing, and hiring and promotions in the workplace ignore the ways in which the problems that prompt the allegations of systemic racism are driven by these two realities. What good can come of bringing them into the open? America’s most precious ideal is what used to be known as the American Creed: People are not to be judged by where they came from, what social class they come from, or by race, color, or creed. They must be judged as individuals. The prevailing Progressive ideology repudiates that ideal, demanding instead that the state should judge people by their race, social origins, religion, sex, and sexual orientation. We on the center left and center right who are the American Creed’s natural defenders have painted ourselves into a corner. We have been unwilling to say openly that different groups have significant group differences. Since we have not been willing to say that, we have been left defenseless against the claims that racism is to blame. What else could it be? We have been afraid to answer. We must. Facing Reality is a step in that direction. |
| Posted by:g(r)omgoru |
| #3 How bout a cumulative cut-off system. If yo mammy collected to the cut-off point, you are not eligible. |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2021-07-19 12:03 |
| #2 Maybe we need to get back to a simplified Welfare Leg Up system. A system with written cut-off limits and not the inherited multi-generational system it has become. Then tie assistance/collection to proper to civil / social behavior. Because why should any still criminally active street thug, gang banger, drug dealing low life, baby factory be allowed to suck off taxpayer funded assistance? NOTE: A look at FBI Crime Data Tables proves the racial crime disparity argument. But with that said. I will also say we need to look at how the Assistance availability / design has been located by racial design. Because a majority of the Black community's population tend to be located by design in racially segregated low income, poor economic Metro Areas and projects. Which has promoted a separate culture and social behavior. Plus it increases Democrat voter district political power. |
| Posted by: NN2N1 2021-07-19 08:21 |
| #1 Cause the Left has failed abjectly in one community after the transfer of massive wealth, suspension of equal standing before the law through affirmative action programs, and every excuse offered up since the Great Society Program of the mid-1960s. So everyone and everything else is to blame rather than admit they've been fundamentally wrong and destructive to the entire enterprise known as America. It's like the scene in Downfall where you know who says the German people deserve this abyss because they failed him. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2021-07-19 05:54 |