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Brian Kilmeade Show

Thomas Sowell: Social Justice Fallacies

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🗓️ 5 October 2023

⏱️ 38 minutes

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In this must-hear, unedited interview legendary author, economist and conservative commentator Thomas Sowell joins Brian to discuss his new book "Social Justice Fallacies." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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I went on Brian Kilmeade. Welcome back. Joining me now is Thomas Sol, author of a brand new book

0:04.9

called Social Justice Fallacies, one of the most respected minds and voices in the country today

0:10.2

as my privilege to have the multi-New York Times bestseller as our guest. Professor, welcome back.

0:16.4

Oh, good being back. First off, tell me about what do you mean by social justice fallacies?

0:21.2

There's some truths that aren't truths. I guess. Well, I think I would say most of the truth

0:27.7

in that division are not true. One of them is, for example, that there's something very

0:34.4

strange about different groups, whether by race sex or whatever, have very different

0:40.5

representation and different kinds of institutions and activities. And therefore, something

0:45.8

sinister must be going on. In point of fact, disparities are virtually universal, as I mentioned

0:54.4

in the book itself. You can read reams of social justice literature and not encounter a single

1:01.7

example of a country where people from different groups are equally represented in different

1:08.1

occupations or activities. And that's true if you go back to whether you're looking at countries

1:14.7

around the world today or you're looking back through history for over a thousand years.

1:21.0

So what people want to do is say, oh, the reason why Hispanics aren't big here or Blacks aren't

1:27.0

big here or people in the Midwest aren't doing what we're here is discrimination. They want to

1:35.7

say it's racism. When you say there's a logic behind almost all of it and that we can't

1:40.8

script outcomes, we can only script opportunities. That's that's right. Because in the outcomes

1:49.7

among other things, depending upon what the individuals themselves want to do, one of the examples

1:54.9

I've offered you is imagine if some Black baby is born in the middle of the ghetto with muscles

2:03.6

or identical to those of Rudolph and the radio, the great ballet dancers, the chance of that kid

2:09.3

becoming another rid off of them and the radio must be one of the thousands if that's high.

2:15.3

Because the whole he's not going to grow up oriented towards that kind of thing.

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