Look, when 13% of the population is responsible for 50% of the homicides, there's a larger issue going on within that group of people.
Recycling old talking points, Bowser?
When you treat people poorly over an extended period, these things do happen.
A version from fantasy fiction:
...Walking through the filth in the streets made me want to retch, but I hid it. Anyway, we all know Easterners are filthy, right? Look at how they live. Never mind that they can't use sorcery to keep their neighborhoods clean the way Dragaerans do. If they want to use sorcery, they can become citizens of the Empire by moving into the country and becoming Teckla, or buying titles in the Jhereg. Don't want to be serfs? They're stubborn, too, aren't they? Don't have the money to buy titles? Of course not! Who'd give them a good job, seeing how filthy they are?
―Steven Brust
Like I said of the War on Drugs:
"When sixty-five percent of your crack users are white and ninety-four percent of your convicts black, there seems an obvious question. That sort of thing."
I'll digress for a moment to tell you a joke that isn't funny. Every once in a while I have these moments with my age peers, or sometimes people who are a bit older than me. That is to say, I can't always account for people who are fifteen years younger than me and don't remember politics before Bill Clinton. But every once in a while I run into people who are my age or older and apparently don't remember the history of their lifetimes. But it's always a bit morbid when I encounter age peers who just don't remember basic ideas.
I know people my age who claim they never heard the phrase "women's lib". I also know people who claim they never heard rape jokes. The bit with locker room talk is kind of interesting, these days. I want you to imagine someone between my age and yours, and, I don't know, they want to make a point, so you say something like, "What about the Cold War?"
In fact,
great; think of it that way. There's this weird thing going on with Republicans right now where they are preparing to delegitimize Hillary Clinton's presidency much as they've spent the time claiming Barack Obama isn't really president because he was born in Kenya, or whatever. It's uncertain quite how this one goes, but Hugh Hewitt just handed me a piece by speaking a line I'd halfway been waiting for. (The other half―the
realistic half―forgot for long enough the simple fact that Mr. Hewitt is a conservative, and thus was not expecting him or anyone else to come right out and say it.) But before Hugh Hewitt went on msnbc and seems to have complained that Democrats nominated the Republican nominee―still waiting for the footage and transcript, but the rewind test made it clear―there was this guy named Shawn Steel. He's a member of the Republican National Committee, and he just sent an email to
Politico explaining, "Should Hillary get 'elected' she is immediately delegitimized", which, in turn, is what it is, except the committeeman from California thinks this is true because he apparently believes the
banks are part of a "massive Left Wing Conspiracy".
Think about that for a minute: A Republican says the
banks are in with the
Communists.
No, seriously, so much for the Cold War, eh?
At any rate, I think the old joke is that David Duke called and wants his talking points back. This, however, is the year of the Trump, so who knows, the reboot is that maybe there's a milestone edition in print.
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Notes:
Brust, Steven. Yendi. New York: Ace, 1984.
Cheney, Kyle. "RNC members agree with Trump: It's rigged". Politico. 18 October 2016. Politico.com. 19 October 2016. http://politi.co/2ekGhfv
