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Welcome to another episode of the Tom Woods show. We had a wonderful event at the Mises Circle in Dallas last weekend. We had a whole bunch of people there who got in for free because of the offer right here on the show. If you were a listener and you wanted to be at that event, you didn't have to pay the $95 entrance fee. And I didn't promote that on social media or through my newsletter or anywhere

other than through the spoken word on the show to make sure we're talking about actual

listeners. So listeners got that great benefit. What a wonderful time we had. What I want to do

for you now is play the talk that I gave on that subject, on political

correctness, because that was the topic of the event. And in particular, I was talking about

the worldview of the politically correct movement, which is that when you have differences in outcomes between

groups, this can only mean that something sinister is at work. So if you have differences in incomes

or job placement or whatever, this means something sinister is afoot. There's so-called

discrimination, and discrimination leads to poverty and so on and so

forth. And what I show in this talk is how absurdly simplistic a view that is. And what I'm trying to

say, and I say it sometimes maybe in a way that's too subtle, you'll hear it if you're paying

attention, but I want to make clear in here that if we're talking about, for example, black Americans, and we say that black Americans are underrepresented in, let's say, college professors, it's not correct to say that that's because of racism, because the correct question is, how many

black Americans have PhDs in the relevant fields? So if you want to say there's a problem and we want

to get more blacks into different types of occupations, well, the question becomes, get them the

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