can call cancel culture today and what many people do call cancel culture, which is this idea that there were certainul things that may be true but may even have very intense explanatory value that you re not supposed to discuss in polite society. the problem here is that if you can t discuss the possible explanations for things, the very likely explanations for things in some cases, you end up having a nonproductive f conversation with things that aren t very relevant. sexism comes tovi mind in many conversations, ending up being labeled the total cause of everything we are seeing. so the first chapter of the book looks at the black lives matter movement. i openly say i m a black man ane a proud one, and academic, i have some sympathy towards the underlying goals of the movement with racial equality and so on but point out many of the things they say are objectively not s true it if you look at the claim that there is a very large number of murders, if you will, of african-american me
the book looks at what you can call cancel culture today and what many people do call cancel culture which is this idea that there were certain things that may be true but may even have very intense explanatory value that you re not supposed to discuss in polite society. in the problem here is that if you can t discuss the possible explanations for things, the very likely explanations for things in some cases, you end up having a nonproductive conversation with things that aren t very relevant. sexism comes to mind in many conversations, ending up being labeled the total cause of everything we are seeing so the first chapter of the book looks at the black lives matter movement. i openly say i m a black man and a proud one, and academic, i have some sympathy towards the underlying goals of the movement with racial equality and so on but point out many of the things they say are objectively not true it if you look at the claim that there is a very large number of murders, if you will,
not to be true. the total number of unarmed african-american males killed in genuinely disputed, potentially controversial shootings by police last year if i have the number correct, 13. the total number of unarmed people including the very large caucasian and hispanic majority we rarely talk about, that number was under 100. full number of police shootings all in was under 1,000 and that included people attacking the officer with a pistol or another firearm, knife, a vehicle used as a weapon. so that argument simply didn t stand up. there wasn t a gigantic black/white discrepancy. you adjust for crime rate in the total number of these cases for all groups combined was 100 or less so those were the facts and i went on from there into interracial crime in general and i think this is something that the media and all political sides really emphasizes because like the failure of masculinity
underwent a three hour operation to remove half of his:sunday and expected to spend time in a special sweeper reserved for popes. i am lauren blanchard and now back to tucker carlson tonight. draw your headlines, log on to foxnews.com. tucker: after george floyd died in minneapolis last year, america changed and it changed very fast. we were told they needed to reckon with something called systemic racism for the democratic national committee heard that african-americans are routinely murdered by the police. all of it was alive. a social scientist and a professor and has studied the data on this. he s got a new book called the hate crime hoax. we had an amazing conversation. you ve never heard of him, watch this. what are some of the things that you believe are true that are not permitted in polite conversation right now?
african-american men by police in sacramento, california. 22-year-old stephon clark was killed in his grandmother s yard. police said they thought he had a gun. only his cell phone was found on the scene. white house press secretary sarah sanders was asked about this and other cases today. here s what she said. certainly a terrible incident. this is something that is a local matter and that s something we feel should be left up to the local authorities. what does he say about weeding out bad policing when you continue to see these kinds of situations occur over and over again? certainly we want to make sure that all law enforcement is carrying out the letter of the law. the president s very supportive of law enforcement. but at the same time, in these specific cases, in these specifics instances, those will be left up to local authorities to make that determination and not something for the federal government to weigh into. joining me now is civil rights attorney benjamin crump