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2015-05-06 Home Front: Culture Wars

The Inconvenient Truth about Ghetto Communities

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Posted by g(r)omgoru 2015-05-06 06:18|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 Spot on! Thomas Sowell at his best.

Posted by Besoeker 2015-05-06 06:30|| 2015-05-06 06:30|| Front Page Top

#2 For me the money quote is: You cannot take any people, of any color, and exempt them from the requirements of civilization — including work, behavioral standards, personal responsibility, and all the other basic things that the clever intelligentsia disdain — without ruinous consequences to them and to society at large.

Sowell is a national treasure.

Posted by JohnQC 2015-05-06 07:16|| 2015-05-06 07:16|| Front Page Top

#3 One more example of facts and reason versus emotions and "feelings".

This is why conservatives always lose these arguments. It is much easier to ignore the former and go with the latter.

I cut my teeth in politics reading WFB columns. His erudition was magnificent but guaranteed to turn off anyone that didn't want to work at it. Sowell is not quite that bad but is pushing that same Sisysphean boulder up the hill of "progressive" sludge.

That said, ditto to Besoeker and JQC.

Posted by AlanC 2015-05-06 07:31|| 2015-05-06 07:31|| Front Page Top

#4 Inconvenient truth, what is Al Gore moving into the "community" ?

Posted by Gruling Lumplump6227 2015-05-06 07:39|| 2015-05-06 07:39|| Front Page Top

#5 I postulate that Libs exhibit an interesting quality I call "Cognitive Gerrymandering."

Logical processes do not apply and when the discussion makes a turn against them, the subject is quickly reset to something related in only a tertiary sense, usually related to "tolerance" (or lack thereof) of an "aggrieved" population sub-set.

Like AlanC sez, "feelings."

Posted by Hupineger Glomomp52169 2015-05-06 13:19|| 2015-05-06 13:19|| Front Page Top

#6 Common denominator - bad policing.

Posted by Tyranysaurus the Lesser8252 2015-05-06 14:04|| 2015-05-06 14:04|| Front Page Top

#7 when the discussion makes a turn against them, ~~the subject is quickly reset to something~~ they nearly always change the subject and go off on an emotional tangent.

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2015-05-06 19:37|| 2015-05-06 19:37|| Front Page Top

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