Intellectuals and Race
by Thomas Sowell · first published 2013
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"Intellectuals and Race is a radical book in the original sense of one that goes to the root of the problem. The role of intellectuals in racial strife is explored in an international context that puts the American experience in a wholly new light. The views of individual intellectuals have spanned the spectrum, but the views of intellectuals as a whole have tended to cluster. Indeed, these views have clustered at one end of the spectrum in the early twentieth century and then clustered at the opposite end of the spectrum in the late twentieth century. Moreover, these radically different views
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…Can we explain it by intrinsic differences? You can explain it a billion different ways. The question is: who is right, and how do you prove it? Read "Black Rednecks and White Liberals" by Sowell, and "Intellectuals and Race" while you're at it. You'll find plenty of explanations that have nothing to do with either racism or of innate genetic differences. It is proponents of CRT who need to prove themselves, but because they…
on “What “diversity and inclusion” means at Microsoft” ↗I was inspired heavily by some chapters in the book "Intellectuals and Race" by Libertarian theorist Thomas Sowell. You can hear him talk about it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6ImP-gJvas
on “Urbit is now in open developer beta” ↗Without taking any sides in this particular case, i highly recommend everyone read Intellectuals and Race[1] by Thomas Sowell. It is a concise, well researched, and largely damning look at how the same intellectual class that is leading the charge of globalized western morality (particularly in regards to…
on “Einstein's travel diaries reveal attitudes towards people he met in Asia” ↗Thomas Sowell recently released a new book on this subject: http://www.amazon.com/Intellectuals-and-Race-ebook/dp/B00BAH... Clearly discrimination against Asians was one of the unforeseen consequences of affirmative action. What's particularly sad is it doesn't even help the people it was supposed to. For…
on “Do Elite Colleges Discriminate Against Asians?” ↗I recently started to read his book Intellectuals and Race, but stopped because his putative citations did not support his claim that whites in America are at a disadvantage relative to Asian Americans w.r.t. mortgage applications and keeping their jobs during…
on “Thomas Sowell interview” ↗The first book of his I read was Intellectuals and Race. Economic Facts and Fallacies is similar in terms of how the arguments are framed (though it touches on different subjects). I'm not sure if this is true of all his books but I would recommend looking…
on “The rate of obsolescence of knowledge in software engineering” ↗