On-air racial eugenics by public figures is shielded as protected free speech.

Evidence

William Bennett, hypocritical arbiter of America’s moral virtues, exemplifies the logic at play here. He recently responded to a call-in question on his radio show that, while morally reprehensible and ridiculous, aborting all black babies would result in a sharp reduction in the US crime rate. His “hypothetical” projection, effectively genocidal, is protected as the sort of free speech the wall of privatization around civil society is designed to render critically unreachable. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 397

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