Paul Ryan: White nationalists are to blame for lazy Inner-city men

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Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., on Wednesday suggested that men in “inner cities” who refused to work were one of the main causes of poverty in the United States. In an interview with conservative radio host Bill Bennett, first noticed by Igor Volsky at Think Progress, Ryan reflected on his controversial poverty discussion at last week’s Conservative Political Action Conference.

“We call it a poverty trap,” he explained, according to Raw Story. “There are incentives not to work and to stay where you are.” Ryan also pointed to the work of Charles Murray, a white Nationalist, who has used “racist pseudoscience and misleading statistics to argue that social inequality is caused by genetic inferiority,” according to the Southern Poverty Law Center.


“That’s this tailspin or spiral that we’re looking at in our communities,” he told Bennett. “Your buddy Charles Murray or Bob Putnam over at Harvard — those guys have written books on this.”


“Which is, we have got this tailspin of culture in our inner cities in particular, of men not working, and just generations of men not even thinking about working and learning the value and culture of work,” Ryan opined. “So, there’s a real culture problem here that has to be dealt with.”

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