The libertarian economics professor opines about declining values in America: "Much of today's language usage demonstrates a desire to be
nonjudgmental. People used to shack up; now they cohabit or are living
partners. Few young women of yesteryear would have felt comfortable to
publicly declare they slept around. Unmarried women used to give birth
to a bastard; later, this was upgraded to an illegitimate birth or a
nonmarital birth. In many instances, unwed mothers proudly hold baby
showers celebrating their illegitimate offspring, and the man, if known,
who sired the baby is referred to as 'my baby's daddy' or sometimes as 'my baby daddy.'"
Dr. Williams continues: "Another measure of social deviancy is reflected by the excuses and
apologies that are made for failures and how we make mascots out of
social misfits, such as criminals and bums. The intellectual elite tell
us that it's poverty or racism that produces criminals, as opposed to a
moral defect. We call bums homeless people. That suggests a moral
equivalency between people who have lost their homes in a fire or
natural disaster and people who choose to be social parasites;
therefore, neither group is to be blamed for its respective condition.
People who are very productive members of our society, such as the rich,
are often held up to ridicule and scorn."
Walter E. Williams Op-Ed: Our Deviant Society
