Since the George Floyd riots started last year, cities across the country have declared racism a public health crisis but that apparently wasn’t enough to defeat it so one liberal nut thinks racism should be a national security threat. If that sounds dumb, that’s because it is, but liberals do say that everything is racist and national security is a thing, so there you go.
The Harvard Business School presented this ridiculous thing:
How Systemic Racism Can Threaten National Security
Systemic racism and discrimination in small communities can undermine a country’s ability to defend itself during conflicts, creating a national security risk, new research says.
Marco Tabellini, an assistant professor of business administration at Harvard Business School, analyzed Black and white military enrollment at the onset of World War II. He found that Black people were 90 percent more likely to sign up for military service—potentially putting their lives on the line—in communities with less overt discrimination.
“For policymakers, the message of the paper is clear: If you require or expect an equal contribution from your citizens, all citizens must be treated equally. It reveals the costs for society as a whole if you don’t,” said Tabellini.
Somehow this gets dumber:
During the seven weeks before December 7, 1941, both white and Black volunteer rates were steady, with lower Black rates overall. Afterward, Black enlistment rates rose at one-third the rate of white enlistment. Lower volunteer rates among Black men in counties where racial discrimination was rampant accounted for much of the difference.
To gauge the depth of racism’s impact, the researchers developed a composite index of discrimination for each county in the 48 mainland states. The index considered the pervasiveness of Jim Crow laws, Ku Klux Klan activity between 1915 and 1940, and the number of recorded lynchings before 1939, among other measures. Then the team compared enrollment across races using detailed military recruitment data and US Census figures.
The authors found that Black men from counties that ranked in the 25th percentile of the discrimination index were 90 percent more willing to volunteer than men from counties in the 75th percentile, where systemic racism was worse. White volunteer rates were consistent in counties across all states examined.
There is so much wrong with this, it’s hard to decide where to start. I guess we’ll go with the fact that there was a draft in WWII. All men between the ages of 21-45 had to register for the draft and 61% of all soldiers who fought in WWII were drafted. Presumably this kook is looking at the people who volunteered, but his entire theory goes down the crapper because racism didn’t have any effect on our country’s ability to get soldiers since we instituted a draft.
Then there’s the issue that the racism this guy is referencing no longer exists in this country. Jim Crow laws are gone, the KKK is a handful of dudes who go on Jerry Springer to outrage bored housewives, and nobody has been lynched in generations. Since WWII we’ve become a post-racial society, which again blows away his theory that racism could be a threat to our national security since the racism he cites has been abolished.
And the dumbness topped out with this:
While 75 years have passed since World War II ended, the US seems no closer to addressing the underlying causes of systemic racism. Two months ago, a mob of supporters of former President Donald J. Trump stormed the US Capitol, which had a far smaller law enforcement presence than it did during protests led by the Black Lives Matter movement months earlier.
Tabellini began studying the effects of race and migration as a doctoral student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. This study’s findings go beyond the military or law enforcement to illustrate far deeper problems afflicting America, he says.
“It applies to a society and to the US democracy and government much more broadly and to what many have referred to as the system of institutionalized racism,” Tabellini said.
When your theory is going to shit, just yell “Trump” and Harvard Business School will treat your garbage like it’s valid.
This guy is so full of shit it’s hard to tell what he’s trying to say with this nonsense research, but this is what I got out of it: We should let Black Lives Matter riot, loot, and destroy, because if WWIII breaks out, black people will be more likely to volunteer to fight for our country.
That’s crazy, even coming from a liberal.
