I dont believe black leaders really misunderstoond him.
I think they are taking political advantage.
If there is anything positive here, we can remember what it felt like and try to not do it to others.
If they are attacking on this you can just dismiss them and any further comments on anything because they are identifying themselves as unreasonable people. GLAMIS people. Gee look at me I'm stupid.
The media is so used to being able to define what was said and how bad it was that Bennet should not have given the ammo to them However, it is very difficult in everyday conversation to pass everything through the "what might the left do with this" filter. So I can give Bennet a pass on this.
Of course I would like to see PC die a quick death anyway. It has never been anything except a tool of the left to shame the right wing party and inflame the minorities (and corporation bosses) into being intimidated every day of their lives.
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I heard a left-winger on a local radio show misrepresent Bennett's remarks just yesterday evening. He's not a stupid man, and he's had more than enough time to investigate the issue. I changed the station.
The race-baiters were losing their power until Katrina. Jesse still has a set of keys to the White House for when the locks get changed back to KlintonKwiksets.
They've managed to set back race-relations another generation.
In a nutshell.
I watched Juan Williams comment on this on Brit Hume's Special Report and was disappointed to see that even Williams, who says Bennett is a personal friend, and who acknowledges all the good works done for the black community by Bennett and his wife, he (Williams) has not been able to get rid of the racist chip on his shoulder. Just like those who need to refer to themselves as feminists carry a similar chip. Neither group seems to understand how carrying that chip around does nothing but weigh them down. Just as Islamic clerics and imams try to keep their people ignorant and angry in order to maintain power and control, so too, do black leaders and radical liberal politicians do the same. They know if racism is a non-issue, they have little left that will allow them to maintain their personal political power.
Pretty sad coming from the side that calls itself "progressive."
They must since nothing he said was remotely racist. Unlike Rangel's "Bush is like Bull Connors..." remarks.
The former philosophy professor picked a hypothetical that he thought would make the horror of such utilitarianism obvious to everybody.
It was an argumentative technique of debate based on reductio ad absurdum. In this case the hypothetical wasn't absurd (it would be true) but the thought of actually implementing it is absurd and he underscored that obvious conclusion by spelling it out in his following comment.
Bennett's real mistake was in thinking people would be mature enough to get it.
It's not his fault the libs have dumbed down education to the point where words have no more meaning to the masses than the grunts of apes. Not everyone wants to run their thoughts through multiple polling groups until their words are so stripped of creative content that they produce nothing but a saccharin-like emotional response from the average couch potato. Not everyone wants to be Bill Clinton.
Excellent article
I've made this argument many times ... that IF it's true that a fetus is a 'potential' person not an acutual person , and IF it's true that this is OK morally, then it should follow that it is OK morally to eliminate potential persons based on race, gender, gentics, sexual orientation, presumed IQ, etc. etc.
Even though it was not what Bennett said, why the uproar about supposedly culling potential people?
After all, they are not real people, so no harm done.