In an interview Tuesday night with Fox News’ Tucker Carlson, author and crime expert Heather Mac Donald argued that the recent incidents of widespread lawlessness in inner cities that have gained attention on social media are a consequence of the political Left’s portrayal of law enforcement as “racist.”
Mac Donald also talked about her newly released book, titled “When Race Trumps Merit: How the Pursuit of Equity Sacrifices Excellence, Destroys Beauty, and Threatens Lives.” The book, which is published by DW Books, hit the shelves on Tuesday.
“So it does seem like these outbreaks of lawlessness and mob rule are the easiest kinds of crimes to stop,” Carlson said as the interview kicked off.
“Well, that would depend on believing in the police’s authority, and the elites have done everything they can possibly do to discredit legitimate police authority by calling it ‘racist,’” Mac Donald noted.
“We are seeing civilization break down in front of our eyes. It’s a willed and voluntary breakdown, and it will continue and worsen until we stand up against the phony charge of racism, whether directed at the police, at medicine, or the arts and start defending America’s civilizational inheritance,” she added, per the Daily Wire.
The author ridiculed the political Left’s claim that the raging lawlessness in Democrat-run cities was the product of “starvation or deprivation or poverty.”
“These mobs are all organized on social media, the participants all have smartphones, that’s not my idea of starvation or deprivation,” she said.
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.@HMDatMI to @TuckerCarlson: “We are seeing civilization break down in front of our eyes…It will continue and worsen until we stand up against the phony charge of racism, whether directed at the police, medicine, or the arts, and…stop capitulating to the racial hustle.” pic.twitter.com/HygB7aIj0e
— Daily Wire (@realDailyWire) April 19, 2023
In response to Carlson’s question about why politicians seem to find it challenging to address the issue of unclean streets, Mac Donald suggested that many of them are afraid of being labeled as racists.
“It’s very odd, because the Left says there’s no racial disparities in crime,” she said. “And yet, if somebody talks about crime, they’ll be accused sotto voce of being racist. So the Left actually knows something that it’s not letting on.”
“The fact is, is that law enforcement is not racist for having a disparate impact on black criminals,” she continued. “It has a disparate impact on black criminals, when it’s enforced in a color blind manner, because the black crime rate is so high.
“Who suffers from that black crime? Overwhelmingly black victims, and yet we’re not allowed to talk about those black victims because doing so means talking about black crime, and America turns its eyes away from the pathological inner city culture that gives us these mobs, that gives us these barbaric drive-by shootings, and that will tear down everything unless we stop capitulating to the racial hustle,” she noted further.
