{"id":2935,"date":"2021-02-16T16:31:31","date_gmt":"2021-02-17T00:31:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.crimeandconsequences.blog\/?p=2935"},"modified":"2021-02-17T09:45:18","modified_gmt":"2021-02-17T17:45:18","slug":"crime-and-race-and-cancel-cultures-poisonous-game-of-dare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crimeandconsequences.blog\/?p=2935","title":{"rendered":"Crime, Race, and Cancel Culture’s Poisonous Game of Dare"},"content":{"rendered":"

Glenn Loury, a black man, is a professor of economics and faculty fellow at the Watson Institute at Brown University and a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute.\u00a0 He is also a man of tremendous courage and insight\u00a0 —\u00a0 one of the few in academia, or anywhere, who would write the following truth:<\/p>\n

Common sense and much evidence suggest that, on the whole, people are not being arrested, convicted, and sentenced because of their race. Those in prison are, in the main, those who have broken the law\u2014who have hurt others, or stolen things, or otherwise violated the basic behavioral norms which make civil society possible. Seeing prisons as a racist conspiracy to confine black people is an absurd proposition. No serious person could believe it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Prof. Loury’s essay, “Unspeakable Truths about Racial Inequality in America” is here<\/a>.\u00a0 I urge you to read every word.\u00a0 Here is the bluntly honest passage from which I have taken the opening quotation of this entry:<\/p>\n

Socially mediated behavioral issues lie at the root of today\u2019s racial inequality problem. They are real and must be faced squarely if we are to grasp why racial disparities persist. This is a painful necessity. Activists on the Left of American politics claim that \u201cwhite supremacy,\u201d \u201cimplicit bias,\u201d and old-fashioned \u201canti-black racism\u201d are sufficient to account for black disadvantage. But this is a bluff that relies on \u201ccancel culture\u201d to be sustained. Those making such arguments are, in effect, daring you to disagree with them. They are threatening to \u201ccancel\u201d you if you do not accept their account: You must be a \u201cracist\u201d; you must believe something is intrinsically wrong with black people if you do not attribute pathological behavior among them to systemic injustice. You must think blacks are inferior, for how else could one explain the disparities? \u201cBlaming the victim\u201d is the offense they will convict you of, if you\u2019re lucky.<\/p>\n

I claim this is a dare; a debater\u2019s trick. Because, at the end of the day, what are those folks saying when they declare that \u201cmass incarceration\u201d is \u201cracism\u201d\u2014that the high number of blacks in jails is, self-evidently, a sign of racial antipathy? To respond, \u201cNo. It\u2019s mainly a sign of anti-social behavior by criminals who happen to be black,\u201d one risks being dismissed as a moral reprobate. This is so, even if the speaker is black. Just ask Justice Clarence Thomas. Nobody wants to be cancelled.<\/p>\n

But we should all want to stay in touch with reality. Common sense and much evidence suggest that, on the whole, people are not being arrested, convicted, and sentenced because of their race. Those in prison are, in the main, those who have broken the law\u2014who have hurt others, or stolen things, or otherwise violated the basic behavioral norms which make civil society possible. Seeing prisons as a racist conspiracy to confine black people is an absurd proposition. No serious person could believe it. Not really. Indeed, it is self-evident that those taking lives on the streets of St. Louis, Baltimore, Philadelphia, and Chicago are, to a man, behaving despicably. Moreover, those bearing the cost of such pathology, almost exclusively, are other blacks. An ideology that ascribes this violent behavior to racism is laughable. Of course, this is an unspeakable truth\u2014but no writer or social critic, of whatever race, should be cancelled for saying so.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Glenn Loury, a black man, is a professor of economics and faculty fellow at the Watson Institute at Brown University and a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute.\u00a0 He is also a man of tremendous courage and insight\u00a0 —\u00a0 one of the few in academia, or anywhere, who would write the following truth: Common sense and much evidence suggest that, on the whole, people are not being arrested, convicted, and sentenced because of their race. Those in prison are, in the main, those who have broken the law\u2014who have hurt others, or stolen things, or otherwise violated the basic behavioral norms which make civil society possible. Seeing prisons as a racist conspiracy to confine black people is an absurd proposition. 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