Steve QJ on The Commentary

[Steve QJ]

"Trump has transcended the cultural signficance of whether a "grab em by the pussy" comment is inappropriate."

I saw a video recently that makes me doubt this - https://youtu.be/Rh1JfiwmCUM?si=4h8t1xyfNEk1lJyL&t=37

I don't think most people are confused about whether it's okay for a politician to talk about grabbing women by the pussy. I don't think that millions of Trump voters have decided that this is culturally okay. I just think they've decided that anything THEIR GUY says is okay. If a tape of Biden saying misogynistic things gets released tomorrow, you'd better believe you'll see the full extent of moral outrage you'd expect from these same people.

I always find that "culture" is too slippery a term to apply usefully to most problems. What exactly is "black culture" I'm black, yet I have no idea. I don't think many people could come up with a definition that would be widely agreed on. Even less so for "White culture" or Asian culture." Or even "gay culture." What you almost always end up talking about here is stereotypes. And sure, stereotypes exist because some people fit into them. But many others, don't. You can't really predict anything about a group of black people if you don't know anything about them but their skin tone.

But you can, much more reliably, say that poor people commit more street-level crime. And you can say that even if you don't know anything else about them. Because there's a causative connection between their poverty and the likelihood that they'll commit crime. Now you have a problem you can do something about.