Zone1 Stop Listening to Thomas Sowell

[AMart]

Behold your culture lol

 

[MarathonMike]

He and others like him HATE any black (or white) who refuses to blame whitey for blacks’ poorer outcomes - and suggests that they are responsible for their own choices in life.

Yes both Thomas Sowell and Shelby Steele not only infuriate Black victim culture they also shake the foundations of the Democratic Party.

 

[Markle]

Grow up.
Jenson was a racist pig and lower IQs are not racially heritable.

As you know, they really are racially inherited.

 

[IM2]

The OP's dislike and dismissal of Thomas Sowell only increases Sowell's creditability in my book.

White racists love Sowell.

 

[IM2]

 

[IM2]

Behold your culture lol

Whites really should not talk about other peoples "culture."

White racism is a mental disorder.

 

[AMart]

Whites really should not talk about other peoples "culture."

White racism is a mental disorder.

Did you enjoy the video?

 

[The Duke]

Thomas Sowell is not some great independent thinker delivering blacks some kind of truth we do not want to accept. He's a black man who panders to white racists to earn a living.

A Critique of Thomas Sowell​

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Given the gargantuan volume of Sowell’s popular writing, I’m going to need to focus on the central cluster of claims Sowell is known for. This is essentially aggregated from a variety of Sowell’s work since much of it is repetitive — the primary books I’m addressing are Discrimination and Disparities and Black Rednecks, White Liberals, combined with the vast expanse of Sowell video interviews and clips available on the Internet. I’ve broken down what I see to be this central cluster into its constitutive claims in order to deal with them in sequence:

1. Disparities do not prove discrimination, particularly pertaining to Black-White economic inequality in the US.
2. Black Americans, especially the worst-off living in urban centres, have a “redneck” culture that was handed to them by White southerners via Britain. It is this culture that produces bad behavioural patterns, such as crime and single parenthood.
3. These behavioural patterns are exacerbated by the interventions of the welfare state.
4. It is these behavioural patterns from the combination of culture and welfare that lead to Black-White economic inequality.
5. Black people are blameworthy for their inequality-producing behaviour.

Each of these claims, as well as the argument as a whole, are riddled with problems of argumentative logic and empirical evidence. In many cases even just one of them would tank the entire enterprise; the sum of all of them is utterly damning. Even in my semi premature academic studies, I am able to conceptualize what affects the black community better than this so-called ‘economist’.

Discrimination and Disparities​

Sowell is correct that intentional racial discrimination (according to Sowell’s classification, Discrimination 1 and 2) at a given juncture — say, racial discrimination by an employer — cannot fully explain Black-White racial disparities in economic outcomes. It does not follow, however, that therefore the remaining racial disparity not explained by acute racial discrimination is not caused by racism in society. Sowell concludes that, for instance, employers and realtors and bankers will make choices about hiring or real estate or loans based on the relevant qualities the individual brings to the table, such as education, credit scores, criminal or eviction history, and so on (this is what he calls Discrimination). People have differences in the quantity and quality of these they can bring to the table, and thus it is perfectly reasonable to find inequalities in economic outcomes.
What is not answered by this, however, is why these inequalities would be unevenly distributed by race.

Why Do People Love Thomas Sowell?

Thomas Sowell, I think it is fair to say, is first and foremost a pundit. He has made his career less on scholarly arguments accountable to the rigorous critique of his peers and more on quotable quips, book-length tirades, and debate clap lines for the adulation of his libertarian fans and conservative think tank colleagues — especially claiming to be an ex-Marxist who ‘saw the light”. Even though his arguments are hollow when you knock on them, Sowell presents his arguments with confidence and frames the story as being one of an incompetent, mean-spirited economic left against a ‘sensible’, objective, evidence-based economic right. When that is a story you already believe, Sowell’s arguments appear compelling, and his demeanour is confident and charismatic. But ultimately, Sowell is better at rhetorical flourish than thoughtful empirical analysis or philosophical consistency.

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Never! Thomas Sowell is awesome!

 

[Hector12]

White racism is a mental disorder.

Low intelligence is a mental deficiency.

 

[Grumblenuts]

Heard ole bootstrap Sow-Ell ain't doin' so well, tryna sell ow but got no soul.

 

[IM2]

Never! Thomas Sowell is awesome!

Only to idiots.

 

[The Duke]

Only to idiots.

Thus claimeth an absolute idiot.

You're too gassed up in your quest for "reparations" to have ary a lick of sense whatsoever.

If you never get a check because you're black, pretty much that will define your life.

And that would be FAIL. Thomas Sowell is a wise, intelligent, and God-fearing man.

What the fuck are you?

 

[IM2]

Thus claimeth an absolute idiot.

You're too gassed up in your quest for "reparations" to have ary a lick of sense whatsoever.

If you never get a check because you're black, pretty much that will define your life.

And that would be FAIL. Thomas Sowell is a wise, intelligent, and God-fearing man.

What the fuck are you?

God is truth. Sowell is not.

Understand that, because you defend him because he says what you need to hear.

 

[Blackrook]

Thomas Sowell is a successful black man. That's why white liberals hate him. They want blacks to be poor and dependent on the government for hand outs.

 

[Lisa558]

Thomas Sowell is a successful black man. That's why white liberals hate him. They want blacks to be poor and dependent on the government for hand outs.

Yup. Sowell proves what the Jews also prove: that with brains, discipline, and motivation, one can overcome bigotry and be very successful.

 

[Natural Citizen]

Thomas Sowell is not some great independent thinker delivering blacks some kind of truth we do not want to accept.

Managing your triggers is your own responsibility.

It's nobody elses obligation to tippy toe around you.

 

[Hector12]

White racists love Sowell.

A white racist is one who draws attention to black social pathology.

 

[Markle]

It is indeed sad that racists believe that being dependent on the government (taxpayers) for your existence is somehow better than being independent and successful.

 

[IM2]

Thomas Sowell is a successful black man. That's why white liberals hate him. They want blacks to be poor and dependent on the government for hand outs.

Thomas Sowell is not succesful. His income has come from government or foundation grants that paid for him to write his anti black internalized racism afflicted garbage which white racists will gladly pay for. Sowell is the race hustler you guys claim you don't like.

 

[IM2]

Managing your triggers is your own responsibility.

It's nobody elses obligation to tippy toe around you.

Man, GFY. Thomas Sowell is an idiot. People like you buy his crap because it's what you want to believe. Nothing he states is correct. But you guys will keep paying him.