Bill Bennett

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Originally Posted by Prudence

I understand what he meant, but I also have a problem with what he said because it plays into racial perceptions in a way that I think someone of his political stature should try to avoid.

His statement would be true even if it were altered to hypothesize aborting all white babies.

The first part of your statement - I don't want to have to agree with it. It is the ignorance of those listening to what he said that is the problem, not what he said.

Statistically and mathematically, the second part of your quote above is not true. If you have a section of the populace committing crimes at a higher rate than the other, taking them out of the equation lowers crimes rates overall. If you remove the section of the populace committing crimes at a lower rate than the other, the crime rate raises overall.

I couuld come up with an example with numbers, but that would bore everyone.