Thomas Sowell quote
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How racist of you.
I love when your first post in a thread is name calling and/or insults.
It truly shows off the depth of your intellect.
Let's stir the pot a little.
Fun fact:
Sowell was a self proclaimed Marxist early in his life. Even while attending the University of Chicago. He wised up, of course, unlike so many on the left.
Sowell was a self proclaimed Marxist early in his life. Even while attending the University of Chicago. He wised up, of course, unlike so many on the left.
Fun Fact: There’s a reason no one outside of knuckle-draggers like Stephen Crowder and his ilk take him seriously. He takes interesting facts and draws the most simple-minded conclusions. See: his embarrassingly flawed analysis of welfare causing black fatherlessness and poverty.
I forgot, anyone you disagree with is simple minded. Carry on.
You familiar with the "man in the house rule." I was there an watched it's effect.
You guys love your specious Sowell quotes.
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Yes, and those trends were not affected by welfare. A simple check of countries with a larger social safety net could have spared Sowell. He could have made a better argument about birth control, women’s liberation, an increasingly mobile society, and the loosening grip of religion.
Gotta just love these white fragility threads, lol. It’s true entertainment on how lacking some of you are.
It’s the only plausible explanation. He’s certainly a fetish as a cover for white dipshits. We may have found the biggest beneficiary of diversity hiring, and it’s a favorite of MAGAt bros. How ironic.
“The reason people use a crucifix against vampires is because vampires are allergic to bullshit.” — Richard Pryor
Guys, remember these quotes the next time some Conservative tries to tell you liberals are guilty of overplaying the race card.
Walt Williams was one of my favorite hoopers back in the day.
Let’s hear the flaws in the analysis.
Maybe you have some info showing that female headed households aren’t more likely to be in poverty with higher likelihood of negative outcomes for their children regarding academic achievement and trouble with the law.
Sowell has conservative views.
Therefore he must be discounted. It’s really that simple.
I’d be willing to bet that the poster you’re responding to is 100% in line with the premise presented in “Freakonomics”; that legalizing abortion causes a decrease in violent crime.
No shit. That’s Sociology 101 stuff. First off, there is no difference between blacks and whites in the amount of fathers that live in the home vs not, across the same socioeconomic classes. Sowell used marriage data, which doesn’t account for the large portion of unmarried yet together black parents. Second, if he’d have looked at other countries, he would have noticed that many with larger social safety nets have less single parent homes. All of them, in fact. We have the worst rate of single parent homes in the entire world, And we are far from a socialist utopia. @mnole03 nailed it: specious. I wish I had thought of using it.
Take the above analysis and tell me where I’m wrong or shove it. There’s a reason Cons keep electing idiots like W and Trump. It is in large part in due to their intellectual deficiencies.
This is so dishonest it’s unbelievable. Sowell knows damn well that if a freeman bought a family member who was a slave, they very often couldn’t legally emancipate them. That’s why there were so many black “slave owners” in 1830.
Not going to profess that there’s an easy answer to that question as I’m not a Sowell type. But this is interesting:
Conclusions
Single parenthood is prevalent in virtually all OECD countries, but the share of single-parent families is particularly high in the United States. Students from single-parent families perform significantly lower in math than students from two-parent families in virtually all countries. To a large extent, however, this achievement gap reflects differences in socioeconomic background, as measured by the number of books at home and parental education, rather than family structure alone. The United States belongs to the group of countries with the largest achievement gaps by family structure, although the United States was more exceptional in this regard in 2000 than in 2012. While the achievement gap between students from single- and two-parent families increased in most other OECD countries over the period, it declined in the United States.
This variation in trends shows that achievement disparities by family structure are by no means destiny. Ample evidence reveals that it is possible to enhance family environments to improve the quality of parenting, nurturing, and stimulation, and thereby promote healthy child development. Future research should investigate to what extent factors such as differing welfare systems, child support facilities, divorce regulations, and other country characteristics may lie behind the differences in achievement gaps between students from single- and two-parent families across countries and over time.
https://www.educationnext.org/international-look-single-parent-family/
Lots of money to be made assuaging white guilt.
There is pretty much no one of any value in ANY Sociology Department. It's arguably the most useless discipline on any college campus.
Coming from a man who has benefited from an entire career in the highest ivory towers of academia, that’s rich. Like most Conservatives, Sowell wasn’t born with the gift of self-awareness.
kind of makes you wonder why BLM has in their mission statement to reject western societies version of a two parent household
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