Editing Victor Davis Hanson (section)

===Race relations===
In July 2013, Attorney General [[Eric Holder]] gave a speech where he mentioned that as a black man, he needed to deliver "[[the talk (racism in the US)|the Talk]]" to his son to instruct him on how to interact with police as a young black man. In response to Holder's speech, Hanson wrote a column, "Facing Facts about Race," in which he offered his own version of "the Talk," the need to inform his children to be careful of young black men when venturing into the inner city, who Hanson argued were statistically more likely to commit violent crimes than young men of other races, and so it was understandable for the police to focus on them.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/a-sermon-on-race-from-national-review|title=A Sermon on Race from National Review|last=Sanneh|first=Kelefa|magazine=The New Yorker|date=2013-07-24|access-date=2019-05-18|language=en|issn=0028-792X}}</ref><ref name="Facing Facts About Race">{{cite magazine|title=Facing Facts About Race|magazine=National Review Online|url=http://www.nationalreview.com/article/354122/facing-facts-about-race-victor-davis-hanson|first=Victor Davis|last=Hanson|date=July 23, 2013}}</ref> [[Ta-Nehisi Coates]] of ''The Atlantic'' described Hanson's column as "stupid advice": "in any other context we would automatically recognize this 'talk' as stupid advice. If I were to tell you that I only employ Asian-Americans to do my taxes because 'Asian-Americans do better on the Math SAT', you would not simply question my sensitivity, but my mental faculties."<ref name="It's the Racism, Stupid!">{{cite magazine|url=https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2013/07/its-the-racism-stupid/278026|title=It's the Racism, Stupid!|first=Te-Nehisi | last=Coates|date=July 23, 2013|magazine=The Atlantic}}</ref>

Arthur Stern called "Facing Facts About Race" an "inflammatory" column based upon crime statistics that Hanson had never cited: "His presentation of this controversial opinion as undeniable fact without exhaustive statistical proof is undeniably racist."<ref name="A Millennial Takedown Of Victor Davis Hanson's 'Facts About Race'">{{cite web|title=A Millennial Takedown of Victor Davis Hanson's 'Facts About Race'|publisher=News.Mic|url=https://mic.com/articles/56449/a-millennial-takedown-of-victor-davis-hanson-s-facts-about-race|first=Arthur|last=Stern|date=July 25, 2013}}</ref> The journalist [[Kelefa Sanneh]], in response to "Facing Facts About Race," wrote, "It's strange, then, to read Hanson writing as if the fear of violent crime were mainly a "white or Asian" problem, about which African-Americans might be uninformed, or unconcerned{{snd}}as if African-American parents weren't already giving their children more detailed and nuanced versions of Hanson's 'sermon', sharing his earnest and absurd hope that the right words might keep trouble at bay."<ref name="A Sermon on Race from National Review">{{cite magazine|title=A Sermon on Race from National Review|magazine=The New Yorker|url=http://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/a-sermon-on-race-from-national-review|first=Kelefa|last=Sanneh|date=July 24, 2013}}</ref> Hanson, in response to Sanneh's essay, accused him of a "[[McCarthyite]] character assassination" and "infantile, if not racialist, logic."<ref name="Untruth at The New Yorker">{{cite web|title=Untruth at the New Yorker|publisher=Victor Davis Hanson's Private Papers|url=http://victorhanson.com/wordpress/?p=6271|date=July 29, 2013}}</ref>