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Please, folks, tell me what I missed here. >
>What's being missed is that in a discussion of crime rates, Bennett didn't take long to raise the race card. The fact that he positioned his remark isn't relevant to me. I think this is more than just "foot-in-mouth" disease.
Well, that's not the issue you initially raised. I think you are rationalizing now, trying to defend your own negative attitude that let you start this (nevertheless interesting) thread. You just don't like to apologize or admit that you are wrong here, that's all.
>This isn't an issue about PC or hyper-sensitivity - it is a matter of hypocracy. When Bennett was
more of a known figure in the mid 1980's, he talked about education, color-blind society, etc. I'm for those things as well and was an early supporter of his, until his game came across more like a political hustler than a sincere thinker.
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>It's just another example of a self-proclaimed conservative intellectual validating the image that liberal/centrist Americans have held as examples of the political right.
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