{"id":7620,"date":"2014-10-27T05:43:14","date_gmt":"2014-10-27T05:43:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2014\/10\/27\/obama-holder-and-the-racializing-of-crime\/"},"modified":"2014-10-27T05:43:14","modified_gmt":"2014-10-27T05:43:14","slug":"obama-holder-and-the-racializing-of-crime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2014\/10\/27\/obama-holder-and-the-racializing-of-crime\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama, Holder, and the Racializing of Crime"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Racecard<\/a>You can rely on  liberals to politicize race and racialize politics.  But they also excel at the racialization of crime.  Victor Davis Hanson has their number in Crimes of Exactly What?<\/a>  He discusses a number of examples besides Ferguson.  Excerpts:<\/span><\/p>\n

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Racializing crime is a serious business, because it breaks society apart along tribal lines. It is all the more dangerous when elected officials like the president and attorney general are sometimes the worst offenders, given their racialist slurs like \u201cnation of cowards,\u201d \u201cpunish our enemies,\u201d and \u201ctypical white person\u201d and cheap editorializing in the Trayvon Martin and Michael Brown cases. So on their cue, are we to look at lurid fatal crimes in the news and see them not as matters of individual evil acts, but rather as collective tokens of larger racial hatred? And are we to detect some sort of state culpability that suggests shared guilt for the violence?<\/span><\/p>\n

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If we were to embrace the abjectly racist worldview of Eric Holder or Al Sharpton, where would the racialization of crime end? Who would decide which interracial crimes illustrated premeditated racial hatred \u2014 or criminal laxity on the part of the state \u2014 and deserved national attention? Which adjudicator could or would declare that one interracial incident was idiosyncratic without transcendent significance, but the other typical and thus representative of collective pathology?<\/span><\/p>\n

What exactly has this country stooped to, when our officials and public figures traffic in politicizing the end of human lives? We are becoming not just a sick country, but an amoral one as well. What Ferguson wrought will not end well.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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You can rely on  liberals to politicize race and racialize politics.  But they also excel at the racialization of crime.  Victor Davis Hanson has their number in Crimes of Exactly What?  He discusses a number of examples besides Ferguson.  Excerpts: Racializing crime is a serious business, because it breaks society apart along tribal lines. It … Continue reading “Obama, Holder, and the Racializing of Crime”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[163,56,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-leftism-and-political-correctness","category-politics","category-race"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7620","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7620"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7620\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}