If not a single policeman killed a single black individual anywhere in the United States for this entire year, that wouldn’t reduce the number of black homicide victims by 1 percent. When the mobs of protesters declare “Black lives matter,” does that mean
If not a single policeman killed a single black individual anywhere in the United States for this entire year, that wouldn’t reduce the number of black homicide victims by 1 percent. When the mobs of protesters declare “Black lives matter,” does that mean all black lives matter — or only the less than 1 percent of black lives lost in conflicts with police?
- So long as public schools are treated as places that exist to provide guaranteed jobs to members of the teachers’ unions, don’t be surprised to see American students continuing to score lower on international tests than students in countries that spend a lot less per pupil than we do.
- Some people see discrimination when schools punish black students more often than white ones. But schools punish white students more often than Asian ones. Lenders turn down black applicants for loans more often than white ones — but they turn down whites more often than Asians. Most statistics on such things omit Asians, rather than spoil a politically correct story.
- In politics, never assume that because something is insane, it will not be done. The Holocaust was as insane as it was a moral horror. But it was done. Even after the tide of war turned against Germany and it faced invasion and devastation, Hitler continued to pour scarce resources into the mass killing of people who were no threat.
- Somewhere Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes says that the purpose of an education should be to produce a mind that cannot be humbugged. But today our educational system, from kindergarten to the universities, is engaged in the mass production of fashionable humbug — propaganda rather than education.
- Despite radical feminist groups’ frequent bursts of outrage, these same groups’ response to the mass capture of school girls by Islamic terrorists in Nigeria, and turning those girls into sex slaves, has been strangely muted. Is this because there is no political mileage or lawsuit settlements to be achieved by expressing outrage at such unconscionable raw savagery?