Ummm...
So? What's the issue? It's true. Blacks commit crime at a rate of greatly increased proportion to their population as a percent of the whole.
Read the "he went on to say" part. It's pretty critical.
Read the "he went on to say" part. It's pretty critical.
posted by The Elephant @ 4:12 PM
4 Comments:
At 6:05 PM,
dave said…
I fail to see an issue, the whole thing is dumb.
The "issue" is, that you can't use the word "abortion" in any remotely or vaguely controversial way without getting hammered by people who either can't comprehend an english sentence, or simply insist on being outraged anyway.
See "Dick Durbin" and "Nazi" for an appropriate analogous statement from the other side of the political spectrum.
At 11:39 PM,
The Elephant said…
We aren't *gasps* on the same side of an issue, are we?
Listen, I don't feel like splitting hair and between the Red Sox, the Indians, and Shaker's 28-17 defeat of a supposedly better Euclid squad, plus our OK 3rd at LELs, I'm in far too good a mood to argue passionately at the moment. If the Sox lose tomorrow, well that's a different story.
But see I think here is a place we're going to find some common ground--the politics of naivete. It's stupid, it's dumb, it's a waste of all our time. That said...
Dick Durbin's quote compared Guantanamo prison guards to Nazis. Bennett, to his eternal credit, went on the NEXT SENTENCE to say that the whole concept was dumb, wrong, immoral, etc, etc, etc. Durbin vacillated; again, in America, you can sin, just don't lie about it.
Both guys took more flack than they deserve; I'm trying to look at this sans my usual red-tinted glasses, and I'm seeing a definite lack of complete comparison. On the whole, though, the analogy is certainly valid.
May I also make the point that Dick Durbin, as the Dem whip, is in a position of great influence in the US Senate, while Bill Bennett's a so-twenty-years-ago talk show host?
At 12:35 PM,
dave said…
Both said things that are true, if rhetorically dangerous. Yes, Durbin is and should be held to a higher standard, although I'm not sure what the "higher standard" for not saying anything wrong is.
Aside: How can you not love Wikipedia for already having Bennett's quote under the entry Reductio ad absurdum!
Go sox!
At 9:36 PM,
The Elephant said…
Yeah. Go sox, he says with bitterness evident in his voice.
I think that, as I pointed out earlier, we agree on something. Stop the presses!
Kudos to Wikipedia.
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