The Mythology of Thomas Sowell

[Caribbean Hen]

And who is this mythical person?

Person? I stated it’s a philosophy. Do you really need specific examples of people who subscribe to it?

You’ve been duped … hilarious word salad of nothingness

[kalm]

Person? I stated it’s a philosophy. Do you really need specific examples of people who subscribe to it?

You’ve been duped … hilarious word salad of nothingness

Ummm neither one of these makes sense given the context.


You feeling alright, buddy?

[Caribbean Hen]

You’ve been duped … hilarious word salad of nothingness

Ummm neither one of these makes sense given the context.


You feeling alright, buddy?

Lets go for a walk in the Bronx so you can see what your empathy has done

[kalm]

Ummm neither one of these makes sense given the context.


You feeling alright, buddy?

Lets go for a walk in the Bronx so you can see what your empathy has done

My empathy? I’ve never been to the Bronx.

Or do you mean empathy in general? You’re not like Musk are ya? Believing that empathy isn’t important a positive force for good?

[Caribbean Hen]

Lets go for a walk in the Bronx so you can see what your empathy has done

My empathy? I’ve never been to the Bronx.

Or do you mean empathy in general? You’re not like Musk are ya? Believing that empathy isn’t important a positive force for good?

it's obvious you've never been Klam ..... Dems claim to be for empathy which means I'm going to throw you some crumbs to live on so you will keep me in power so I can lie cheat and steal

empathy is good to a point but you don't seem to be able to grasp what it really does

[kalm]

My empathy? I’ve never been to the Bronx.

Or do you mean empathy in general? You’re not like Musk are ya? Believing that empathy isn’t important a positive force for good?

it's obvious you've never been Klam ..... Dems claim to be for empathy which means I'm going to throw you some crumbs to live on so you will keep me in power so I can lie cheat and steal

empathy is good to a point but you don't seem to be able to grasp what it really does

You’re attaching strings.

Are there Dems who throw crumbs to keep the masses in check? You bet. There are R’s who do the same. Christ, trickle down theory is based on it. As were feudalism, monarchism, and sometimes colonialism before it.

Empathy doesn’t automatically imply an economic system based on the welfare state or whatever it is you’re trying to prove here. Empathy isn’t a green light to oppress the working class by providing just enough distractions and ease of living to prevent revolution.

Empathy doesn’t even require action although it often leads to positive action for the betterment of society.

Empathy simply asks to “walk a mile in their shoes”.

Empathy coincides with cooperation in social groups that led to the advancement of our species.

Empathy isn’t “good to a point”. Empathy, like kindness is simply good.

[Caribbean Hen]

it's obvious you've never been Klam ..... Dems claim to be for empathy which means I'm going to throw you some crumbs to live on so you will keep me in power so I can lie cheat and steal

empathy is good to a point but you don't seem to be able to grasp what it really does

You’re attaching strings.

Are there Dems who throw crumbs to keep the masses in check? You bet. There are R’s who do the same. Christ, trickle down theory is based on it. As were feudalism, monarchism, and sometimes colonialism before it.

Empathy doesn’t automatically imply an economic system based on the welfare state or whatever it is you’re trying to prove here. Empathy isn’t a green light to oppress the working class by providing just enough distractions and ease of living to prevent revolution.

Empathy doesn’t even require action although it often leads to positive action for the betterment of society.

Empathy simply asks to “walk a mile in their shoes”.

Empathy coincides with cooperation in social groups that led to the advancement of our species.

Empathy isn’t “good to a point”. Empathy, like kindness is simply good.

ok so your not making empathy political... good because I thought you were saying that conservatives are not as empathic as the radical left

[kalm]

You’re attaching strings.

Are there Dems who throw crumbs to keep the masses in check? You bet. There are R’s who do the same. Christ, trickle down theory is based on it. As were feudalism, monarchism, and sometimes colonialism before it.

Empathy doesn’t automatically imply an economic system based on the welfare state or whatever it is you’re trying to prove here. Empathy isn’t a green light to oppress the working class by providing just enough distractions and ease of living to prevent revolution.

Empathy doesn’t even require action although it often leads to positive action for the betterment of society.

Empathy simply asks to “walk a mile in their shoes”.

Empathy coincides with cooperation in social groups that led to the advancement of our species.

Empathy isn’t “good to a point”. Empathy, like kindness is simply good.

ok so your not making empathy political... good because I thought you were saying that conservatives are not as empathic as the radical left

Apples to oranges. The comparison would be between radical right and radical left.

[Caribbean Hen]

>Thomas Sowell: The people who hate America are the ones running it now. <a href="https://t.co/QcvpFSk1T1">pic.twitter.co ... </p>&mdash; Thomas Sowell Quotes (@ThomasSowell) <a href="

dsfk

[Caribbean Hen]

This was directed at the Obama administration<a href="https://t.co/QcvpFSk1T1">pic.twitter.co ... </p>&mdash; Thomas Sowell Quotes (@ThomasSowell) <a href="

dsfk

[UNI88]

This was directed at the Obama administration<a href="https://t.co/QcvpFSk1T1">pic.twitter.co ... </p>&mdash; Thomas Sowell Quotes (@ThomasSowell) <a href="

dsfk

But the tweet is dated July 2025. Obama isn't running America now, trump. Either trump hates America or your twitter hero sowell is a lying propaganda machine.

[Caribbean Hen]

But the tweet is dated July 2025. Obama isn't running America now, trump. Either trump hates America or your twitter hero sowell is a lying propaganda machine.

Are you sure Obama wasn’t running the country up until 2025. January 20th is when he stepped aside

[Caribbean Hen]

Sir Thomas interview

https://www.hoover.org/research/consequ ... -fallacies

Peter Robinson: So contrast your neighborhood in Harlem when you were an eight and nine and 10-year-old boy with what we see in neighborhoods in Chicago today, say.

Thomas Sowell: Oh my gosh, people are astonished when I tell them I grew up in Harlem, I can't remember ever hearing a gunshot. And then, I've checked with my relatives who grew up in similar neighborhoods in Washington and down in North Carolina, they never heard a gunshot when they were growing up. I remember going back to Harlem some years ago to do some research at a high school. And I looked out the window and there's this park there near the high school. And I mentioned in passing that when I lived in Harlem as a kid, I would take my dog for a walk in that park. And looks of horror came over the students' faces. People have no idea how much has retrogressed over the years in the black community and how much of what progress has been made has not been made by politicians or by charismatic leaders.

[UNI88]

If we're going to quote bubble gum philosophers, let's do it right.

[Caribbean Hen]

Peter Robinson: All right, "Social Justice Fallacies", I'm gonna read a quotation, then I'd like you to take us through this material. With the passing years, more and more evidence undermined the conclusion of the genetic determinists. Jews, who had scored low on the 1917 Army mental test, began to score above the national average on various tests as they became a more English-speaking group. A study showed that black orphans, black orphans raised by white families, had significantly higher average IQs than other black children. So in the century since this, you call them genetic determinists, which is one way of putting it, they were racists or they believed that some races were permanently inferior.

Thomas Sowell: Yes, and should be eliminated.

Peter Robinson: And we've learned that's total nonsense. But even more than that, we've learned that IQ is malleable. Is that correct?

Thomas Sowell: I'm not sure what you mean by malleable.

Peter Robinson: Well, that is to say that this ranking of-

Thomas Sowell: Oh, the ranking changes radically-

Peter Robinson: Jews are stupid in 1917 because they score badly on tests-

Thomas Sowell: Yeah, on tests written in English.

Peter Robinson: Tests written in English, okay.

Thomas Sowell: And people who spoke English did better on those tests.

Peter Robinson: Or that blacks have a certain fixed IQ ranking and then you have black orphans raised by white families, in other words, a different cultural-

Thomas Sowell: Yeah, but even before that study, that study wasn't done until 1976, but even as of the time of World War I, the data show that black soldiers scored below white soldiers. And this is one of the reasons. You need people with contrary opinions to be able to be free to attack things. The people who believed that this was genetically determined, they said, that's it, that's the answer and they moved on. Some other people said let's look at it more closely. They discovered that black soldiers from New York, it was New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio and one or two other states scored higher than white soldiers from Mississippi, Alabama, et cetera, et cetera. And as I mentioned in the book, people's genes do not change when they cross a state line. The problem is when you have people who are crusading for some idea, whatever the idea is and they find some data that fits what they believe, that's the end of the story as far as they're concerned, which is fine if there are other people with contrary ideas who will look closer for something that goes the other way.

Peter Robinson: And then get listened to.

Thomas Sowell: Yes, yes.

[Caribbean Hen]

“That so many grandiose social schemes which sound plausible to the intellectual elites not only fail, but prove to be disastrously counterproductive, is by no means surprising when these schemes are analyzed in terms of the characteristics of the processes by which they operate, rather than the goals they seek or the visions to which they conform. At the heart of many of these schemes is third-party decision making. Third parties typically know less, even when convinced that they know more, in addition to lacking the incentives of those who directly benefit from being right and suffer from being wrong.”


Thomas Sowell

[kalm]

“That so many grandiose social schemes which sound plausible to the intellectual elites not only fail, but prove to be disastrously counterproductive, is by no means surprising when these schemes are analyzed in terms of the characteristics of the processes by which they operate, rather than the goals they seek or the visions to which they conform. At the heart of many of these schemes is third-party decision making. Third parties typically know less, even when convinced that they know more, in addition to lacking the incentives of those who directly benefit from being right and suffer from being wrong.”


Thomas Sowell

What in the hell he even talking about? What third parties?

[Caribbean Hen]

“That so many grandiose social schemes which sound plausible to the intellectual elites not only fail, but prove to be disastrously counterproductive, is by no means surprising when these schemes are analyzed in terms of the characteristics of the processes by which they operate, rather than the goals they seek or the visions to which they conform. At the heart of many of these schemes is third-party decision making. Third parties typically know less, even when convinced that they know more, in addition to lacking the incentives of those who directly benefit from being right and suffer from being wrong.”


Thomas Sowell

What in the hell he even talking about? What third parties?

Certainly not planners, bureaucrats and policy makers who think they know what’s best for you and I ….

Poets priests and politicians…. GS

[kalm]

What in the hell he even talking about? What third parties?

Certainly not planners, bureaucrats and policy makers who think they know what’s best for you and I ….

Poets priests and politicians…. GS

So another he doesn’t like government rant. I’m shocked.

[Caribbean Hen]

Certainly not planners, bureaucrats and policy makers who think they know what’s best for you and I ….

Poets priests and politicians…. GS

So another he doesn’t like government rant. I’m shocked.

It’s more about the attitude of the some people in government, and it makes perfect sense because government doesn’t exist without the we know what’s best for you types of people

And there’s never any accountability when they’re wrong and they are often wrong

[UNI88]

So another he doesn’t like government rant. I’m shocked.

It’s more about the attitude of the some people in government, and it makes perfect sense because government doesn’t exist without the we know what’s best for you types of people

And there’s never any accountability when they’re wrong and they are often wrong

Sounds like our POTUS

[kalm]

So another he doesn’t like government rant. I’m shocked.

It’s more about the attitude of the some people in government, and it makes perfect sense because government doesn’t exist without the we know what’s best for you types of people

And there’s never any accountability when they’re wrong and they are often wrong

Much of this is true except never any accountability.

But you still need government.

Btw, how do feel about the IG’s that Trump fired and that he’s absorbed the DOJ’s independence from the executive or that the R’s in Congress continuously fail to provide oversight?

[Caribbean Hen]

For those of you like GF who had never heard of Thomas Sowell, ask yourselves why?

And then ask yourself why Al Sharpton is a household name

Then ask, which one of them is a better role model for not only blacks, but everyone?

[UNI88]

For those of you like GF who had never heard of Thomas Sowell, ask yourselves why?

And then ask yourself why Al Sharpton is a household name

Then ask, which one of them is a better role model for not only blacks, but everyone?

Obama, Wes Moore, Condoleezza Rice and others blow tommy sowell out of the water as role models.

[kalm]

For those of you like GF who had never heard of Thomas Sowell, ask yourselves why?

And then ask yourself why Al Sharpton is a household name

Then ask, which one of them is a better role model for not only blacks, but everyone?

Obama, Wes Moore, Condoleezza Rice and others blow tommy sowell out of the water as role models.

And James Baldwin.