https://twitter.com/ThomasSowell
"We have now reached the point where virtually EVERYTHING that SERVES BLACK 'leaders'—
dependency, grievance-hunting, racial hype & paranoia—
ARE MAJOR DISSERVICES to the CAUSE OF ADVANCING [the] BLACKS[community] at a time when their opportunities have never been better."
= INTENTIONAL CULTURAL,
SOCIAL, & ECONOMIC SABOTAGE
via, by APPLIED corporate media,
government, & cultural institutions
SPEWING LIES & HATE-SPEECH!!
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"The vision of the left, FULL OF ENVY & RESENTMENT, TAKES its WORST TOLL on THOSE AT THE BOTTOM — whether black or white — who find in that paranoid vision an excuse for counterproductive and ultimately self-destructive attitudes and behavior."
Thomas Sowell on reparations: “The number of whites who were enslaved in North Africa by the Barbary pirates exceeded the number of Africans enslaved in the United States and in the American colonies before that put together.”Repl
"One of the most dangerous trends of our times is making the truth socially unacceptable, or even illegal, with 'hate speech' laws."
"It is amazing how many people act as if the right to free speech includes the right to be free of criticism for what you say — which means that other people should not have the same right to free speech that they claim for themselves."
"You cannot subsidize irresponsibility and expect people to become more responsible."
"The vision of the left, full of envy and resentment, takes its worst toll on those at the bottom — whether black or white — who find in that paranoid vision an excuse for counterproductive and ultimately self-destructive attitudes and behavior."
"We have now reached the point where virtually everything that serves black 'leaders'—dependency, grievance-hunting, racial hype and paranoia—are major disservices to the cause of advancing blacks, at a time when their opportunities have never been better."
“The black family survived centuries of slavery and generations of Jim Crow, but it has disintegrated in the wake of the liberals’ expansion of the welfare state.”
"The political left's attempts to silence ideas they cannot, or will not, debate are A CONFESSION of INTELLECTUAL BANKRUPTCY."
"When people are presented with the alternatives of hating themselves for their failures or hating others for their success, they seldom choose to hate themselves."
"It is far easier to concentrate power than to concentrate knowledge. That is why so much social engineering backfires and why so many despots have led their countries into disasters."
The beauty of doing nothing is that you can do it perfectly. Only when you do something is it almost impossible to do it without mistakes. Therefore people who are contributing nothing to society, except their constant criticisms, can feel both intellectually and morally superior
"Deceptive appearances have been with us long before the rise of the modern mass media. But never before have those appearances been able to reach so many people, with so much immediacy and so much seeming reality."
"Do racists care whether someone black is married or unmarried? If not, then why do married blacks escape poverty so much more often than other blacks, if racism is the main reason for black poverty?"
"Slavery was an ugly, dirty business but people of virtually every race, color, and creed engaged in it on every inhabited continent. And the people they enslaved were also of virtually every race, color, and creed."
"To this very moment slavery continues in parts of Africa and the Islamic world. Very little noise is made about it by those who denounce the slavery of the past in the West, because there is no money to be made denouncing it and no political advantages to be gained."
"The first lesson of economics is scarcity: there is never enough of anything to fully satisfy all those who want it. The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics."
"When you compare women and men in the same occupations with the same skills, education, hours of work, and many other factors that go into determining pay, the differences in incomes shrink to the vanishing point — and, in some cases, the women earn more than comparable men."
"Those who want to take our money and gain power over us have discovered the magic formula: Get us envious or angry at others and we will surrender, in installments, not only our money but our freedom."
"Those who are primarily concerned about the well-being of the poor are likely to discover over time that much of the agenda of the left does not really do much good for the poor, and some of that agenda—environmental extremism, for example—actually makes the poor worse off."
"Much of what is promoted as 'critical thinking' in our public schools is in fact uncritical negativism towards the history and institutions of America and an uncritical praise of the cultures of foreign countries and domestic minorities."
"Intolerance may not promote progress but it can promote survival. An intolerant Islamic world may outlast the Western world that seems ready to tolerate anything, including the undermining of its own fundamental values and threats to its continued existence."
“Judges should ask themselves: Are we turning the law into a trap for honest people and a bonanza for charlatans?”
"Much of what are called 'social problems' consists of the fact that intellectuals have theories that do not fit the real world. From this they conclude that it is the real world which is wrong and needs changing."
"Safety advocates who say that we shouldn't take chances, but should ban things that might be unsafe, don't seem to understand that if we banned every food to which somebody had an allergy we could all starve to death."
“Civil rights used to be about treating everyone the same. But today some people are so used to special treatment that equal treatment is considered to be discrimination.”
"What I most disliked about Harvard was that smug assumptions were too often treated as substitutes for evidence or logic. The idea seemed to be that if we bright and good fellows all believed something, it must be true."
"While it is true that you learn with age, the down side is that what you learn is often what a damn fool you were before."
"One of the common failings among honorable people is a failure to appreciate how thoroughly dishonorable some other people can be and how dangerous it is to trust them."
"Intellectuals may like to think of themselves as people who 'speak truth to power' but too often they are people who speak lies to gain power."
One of the most remarkable feats of those with the vision of the anointed has been the maintenance of their reputations in the face of repeated predictions that proved to be wrong by miles.
- "One of the common failings among honorable people is a failure to appreciate how thoroughly dishonorable some other people can be and how dangerous it is to trust them."
- "Intellectuals may like to think of themselves as people who 'speak truth to power' but too often they are people who speak lies to gain power."
- One of the most remarkable feats of those with the vision of the anointed has been the maintenance of their reputations in the face of repeated predictions that proved to be wrong by miles.
- "Considering how often throughout history even intelligent people have been proved to be wrong, it is amazing that there are still people who are convinced that the only reason anyone could possibly say something different from what they believe is stupidity or dishonesty."
- Endless repetition does not make something true.
- "It is bad enough that so many people believe things without any evidence. What is worse is that some people have no conception of evidence and regard facts as just someone else's opinion."
- If one goes through enough numbers, one will eventually come upon some statistics that seem to fit one’s vision. These are what might be called 'Aha!' statistics. Other statistics which suggest opposite conclusions bring no Aha! but are more likely to be glided over and forgotten
- "If we start operating on the principle that people alive today are responsible for what their ancestors did in centuries past, we will be adopting a principle that can tear any society apart."
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