John Derbyshire's advice to 'nonblack' parents

[A Laughing Baby]

The OP-to-defense-of-reprehensible-opinion margin was astonishingly small this time around, even by JREF standards. Color me impressed.

 

[theprestige]

Because if the statistics show that various races correlate with various types of crime, the easiest solution is to stop collecting the statistics so we don't know.

Yeah, I had a whole argument spooling up along those lines, but I've since canceled it.

 

[Walter Ego]

Editor Rich Lowry was seen on a street corner shaking his head and muttering "shocked, shocked!"

Actually he shouldn't be.

Derbyshire in 2003: I Am a Racist

I am a homophobe, though a mild and tolerant one, and a racist, though an even more mild and tolerant one, and those things are going to be illegal pretty soon, the way we are going. Of course, people will still be that way in their hearts, but they will be afraid to admit it, and will be punished if they do admit it.

I love that "mild and tolerant" qualifier. He's probably fixing up his crown of thorns so he can do the martyr bit which is what conservatives usually do when they're busted like this.

 

[Juniversal]

Actually he shouldn't be.

Derbyshire in 2003: I Am a Racist




I love that "mild and tolerant" qualifier. He's probably fixing up his crown of thorns so he can do the martyr bit which is what conservatives usually do when they're busted like this.

He's a moderate racist. He only hates black people a little bit. I'd be interested to hear his views on Mexicans. Seems his ire is only directed at blacks. Unusual for racist. I appreciate his honesty but despise his views.


I like this quote from the article:

Derbyshire likes to pepper his racist rants with “facts” that generally consist of social studies that are subject to numerous interpretational biases. To me, the question as to whether these studies are accurate or correct is uninteresting and irrelevant – a central tenet of decency demands that every human being is entitled to be evaluated on his or her own merits regardless of what social science may say about any group (racial, cultural, religious or otherwise) to which he or she might belong.

 

[Juniversal]

Given that John Derbyshire's wife of several decades is Chinese, I suspect that this is probably satire along the lines of A Modest Proposal... On the other hand, statistics don't lie--or do they? Maybe the problem is that we're tracking crimes by race in the first place?

The only thing that his wife being Asian tells me is that he (likely) doesn't hate Asians.

 

[Puppycow]

Derbyshire: ‘White Supremacist’ Is ‘Not Bad Semantically’

I actually think “White Supremacist” is not bad semantically. White supremacy, in the sense of a society in which key decisions are made by white Europeans, is one of the better arrangements History has come up with. There have of course been some blots on the record, but I don’t see how it can be denied that net-net, white Europeans have made a better job of running fair and stable societies than has any other group.