Taboo: 10 Facts You Can't Talk About

by Wilfred Reilly

Equally simply put, the Continuing Oppression Narrative fails totally. Any coherent review of real, non-fringe data reveals that only 1,000–1,200 people of all races are killed by LEOs in a typical year, with fewer than 300 of these being Black and fewer than 100 being “unarmed.” Interracial crime of all varieties is not exponentially more common, with more than 80 percent of the victims of serious crimes such as murder, across all races, being targeted by someone of the same race. Performance gaps between groups sometimes still do exist but seem almost never to be due primarily to old-school racism. For example, the earnings gap between Black and white males closes almost totally if we compare equivalent men and adjust only for the variables of age, region, education, and aptitude test scores. Finally, “new-school” conceptualizations of racism (such as cultural appropriation and white privilege) turn out to be almost totally meaningless when analyzed using modern empirical methods. For good measure, the identitarian visions that rival the C.O.N. logically fail as well.