Blind Prophecy

From The New York Times:

White House Criticizes Bennett for Remarks

By DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK and MAREK FUCHS

The White House distanced itself today from the comments of a prominent Republican who said on a recent radio program that the nation’s crime rate could potentially be reduced through aborting blacks.

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“I do know that it’s true that if you wanted to reduce crime, you could, if that were your sole purpose, you could abort every black baby in this country, and your crime rate would go down,” Mr. Bennettsaid in the broadcast. “That would be an impossible, ridiculous, and morally reprehensible thing to do, but your crime rate would go down. So these far-out, these far-reaching, extensive extrapolations are, I think, tricky.”

In a radio broadcast on Thursday, Mr. Bennett called the criticism of him “ridiculous, stupid, totally without merit.”

“I was pointing out that abortion should not be opposed for economic reasons, any more than racism or for that matter slavery or segregation should be supported or opposed for economic reasons,” he said. “Immoral policies are wrong because they are wrong, not because of an economic calculation. One could just as easily have said you could abort all children and prevent all crime, to show the absurdity of the proposition.”

But you didn’t, did you? You could have said “you could abort every baby…” buy you didn’t. You said “black” and you said it as though black babies are obviously the most likely to contribute to crime statistics.

Racist fucker.

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