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Racism or Sociology? A Bundesbank Official Stirs Controversy

October 24, 2009 - 12:17 am - by John Rosenthal
Moho
2009-10-24 07:48:24

These were the quotes in question, but for some reason, they’re buried in the middle of your info dump. Even in context, they at best show a person who relies on anecdotal evidence [if that] to feed his own preferred prejudice.

I do not have to respect someone who does nothing. I do not have to respect anyone who lives off the state and at the same time rejects the state, who does not decently provide for the education of their children and who is constantly producing more and more little girls in headscarves. This goes for seventy percent of the Turkish population and ninety percent of the Arab population in Berlin.…

If there was a context that made this any more than a drunken xenophobic screed, I’d like to know why you left it out.

The mayor of [the Berlin district of] Neukölln tells a story about an Arab woman who had a sixth child, because her welfare benefits would allow her then to have a larger apartment. We have to leave behind these sorts of structures. One has to assume that human talent is in part socially conditioned, but in part also inherited. For demographic reasons, the path that we are going down is leading to a continuous decline in the number of intelligent overachievers. This is no way to construct a sustainable society. … That sounds very demagogic (stammtischnah), but it can be very precisely empirically demonstrated.

You’re a coward. Defend him, if you have the stones. But this middling muddle is a perfect example of why few people can respect the right today.