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Culture War Roundup for the week of August 12, 2024

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Everyone knows there are no solutions to the crime and disorder issue that don't involve totalitarian levels of paternalism /social control over blacks, outright genocide whether fast or slow or eugenics, none of which are likely to occur.

I do not actually agree that this is true. There are probably lots of reasonable knobs to turn that would help the problem enormously.

It depends. What level of nuance is warranted in your view with regard to social policy? Would you say that American society practiced totalitarian levels of paternalism /social control over blacks before the Civil Rights Movement, relative to its treatment of whites? What knobs do you regard as reasonable?

No, not really.

It restricted them from white areas and largely contained the violence inside the black community. Black/white homicide rate was very similar then.

I'd consider segregation and non homicidal eugenics reasonable, the latter of course should be applied to all populations.

Can you share what some of those might be? I am afraid to say I mostly hold the same opinion as No_one, but that might be a lack of perspective on other options.

Just the opposite of any recent progressive justice system "reform" like the NY bail reform (that let those migrants who got in a brawl with the cops or people arrested with body parts out) that would be a start. The knob was turned in one direction and made things worse, they can turn it in the other.

Incentivizing stable families would make a massive difference, I'd bet.