>Please, folks, tell me what I missed here.
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>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.
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>This isn't an issue about PC or hyper-sensitivity - it is a matter of hypocracy.

As in "the rule of the lesser"? The "meritocracy" being the rule-by-merit, "technocracy" being "the rule of the experts" etc.

I think this slip of the keyboard reveals a lot about today :).