printTo the extent they are hip to nuanced argument, Conservative readers are often followers, and they demand the same from writers. They cannot abide withering, substantive critique of their idols. However, no thinking, conservative-minded individual should commit idolatry—especially not of TV personalities.
Certainly the idea that the Democrats are the provenance of black crime—that if not for Democrats, black crime would not be an issue—is deserving of contempt.
… But this is precisely Candace Owens’ consistent line of argument on Mr. Tucker Carlson’s TV slot: Democrats are to blame for black crime.
Owens, who was on “Tucker Carlson Tonight” to address the “terrifying rise is violent crime and crime rates,” had rattled off something about, “The Democrats using black people and racism as pawns to distract people from what’s going on,” namely a government power grab.
And, “Everything bad is coming from the United States government being controlled by Democrats.”
By Owens’ logic, the Democrats made some black residents of Oakland CA, simulate coitus and engage in an orgiastic celebration of murder and mayhem around the vans of the emergency medical technicians. Watch.
In all, “the Democrats made them riot and rut” argument is doo-doo. It doesn’t fly, and it’s pretty bad moral reductionism. …
MORE in my new column: “Candace On Tucker Is Wrong About ‘Riot And Rut’ Crowd: When a bloodbath becomes a bacchanalia.” It’s on WND.COM, The Unz Review and CNSNews.COM
UPDATES:
“She is a victim of a random attack,” said dumb-ass dad. : No she was not! Perhaps if dad had given her "The Talk," #JupiterPaulsen would still be alive. #HateCrimehttps://t.co/OC7SVSraBq
— ILANA Mercer (@IlanaMercer) June 25, 2021
The Controlled Opposition:
Plant Paul Ryan into FOX. Now you have “Controlled Opposition.” And Candy and Captain Kirk get prime time face time.
— KingofSwank (@kevin86208069) June 25, 2021
UPDATE (6/28/021):
I wrote a book about South Africa. It has held up quite well. There were no Democrats involved in “laying the ground” for self-generating, black-on-white murderous crime there. The only correct etiological statement would be one which involves lack of punishment.
Ilana I get your point but it seems you’re arguing semantics with Candace while we’re in the midst of a civil war
Dan, you make a ridiculous error. My argument is substantive, not semantic. My G-d! My readers can no longer tell substantive argument from semantic point???! Why do I write? For whom? To say, as Candice implies, that “the Democrats made ’em do the crime”—“dog ate my homework” argument—means that on removing the Democrats, crime among high-crime communities will dissipate. I expect a reckoning from you, sir. A serious mea culpa.