There’s a reason why social justice warriors like CNN’s Sally Kohn demand safe spaces, because their arguments crumble when they come across the inconvenient facts that don’t care about their feelings.
Kohn debated conservative Ben Shapiro at Politicon on Sunday in Pasadena, California, and the CNN contributor’s arguments were destroyed when she brought up the topic of institutionalized racism keeping African Americans down.
Shapiro commented that the reason so many blacks and Hispanics are stopped by the NYPD is because they’re the demographics that commit the most gun crime in New York City.
“How many statistical regressions are we going to have to run? That’s not the truth,” Kohn said.
“Yes it is, January to June 2008, 95 percent of gun assailants in the city of New York are black and Hispanic,” Shapiro rebutted.
The liberal commentator said that the reason that number is so high is because blacks and Hispanics were overrepresented in the population of people being tried, sentenced, and incarcerated.
“It’s not anyone’s fault that 50 percent of the murders being committed in the country are by young black men?” Shapiro added. “It’s not the fault of the people putting them in prison that those people happen to be black. It’s not the fault of the New Jersey Turnpike police that they’re pulling over 23 percent black men when they did a statistical analysis and found that 25 percent of the people speeding were black.”
“Since 1994, the 75 largest cities in America when they analyzed (crime) found there’s an overrepresentation in in (minority) crimes that were reported,” Shapiro said to a dumbfounded Kohn. Shapiro stressed that blacks and Hispanics were actually underrepresented in the prison population versus how many crimes they reportedly committed.
Shapiro flipped Kohn’s social justice view of institutionalized oppression against her, stating that while women are exceeding men in both undergraduate and graduate degrees, men are overrepresented in the population of people incarcerated. The conservative writer asked if that was because the system was rigged against men.
“More men commit crimes,” Kohn answered.
So she was able to admit that the system as a whole was not at fault for the gender disparities, because men commit crimes, but she refused to add the same logic when the topic of race came into question.
Watch the full clip below:
