I recommend reading "Discrimination and Disparities" by Thomas Sowell. In this book Sowell explains that disparities are normal throughout the natural and human world. Equal outcomes rarely ever happen because so many variables affect outcomes. A few of the many factors that cause human disparities include average age of group, personal preferences and abilities, the desire for upward mobility, parental priority given to education and hours spent doing homework. Lack of a father in the household is a very big factor since more than 80% of black kids are raised by their mothers alone. Being an anti-racist does not change any of the factors involved and, therefore, cannot result in a change in racial disparities. Both Sowell and Thornton do a great job of explaining this.
More recently studies show that if a child has to be in a single parent household they're better off with teh father than the mother and that goes for boys and or girls. Men in general are high in disagreeableness and are less likely to to go along with some kind of non-sense BS where as women will go along with it. In a father only household his traits and mannerisms are passed down to the child making them more resilient to woke non-sense.
Creating 1 parent households where it's the mother and not the father raising the child wasn't done by accident or chance. Before the government started subsidizing generations of black families the black community had a lower divorce rate and lower rate of 1 parent households than did whites. The destruction of teh black community started with the Federal government paying black women to raise kids without fathers. This was a legal way to effectively enslave blacks again. This time instead of in physical chains it was used with monetary chains. Skip forward a few generations and now they can weaponize anger within teh black community and direct it not at the true architects of it all but at the wider white community; to create race war. The same has been done between men and women, a sex war. Various groups of persons are being pitted against each other so we're all busy fighting with each other and not paying attention to what those in positions of leadership are doing. When the people are fighting each other they aren't paying attention to their government making it easier for nefarious state actors to engage in corruption.
He also goes into this at length in “Preferential Policies: An International Perspective”. It was hard to find, but good damn was it a good read. Everything being talked about by BLM or KenDiAngelo was already pre-debunked 30 years ago by Sowell.
Which is why public education does it's best to avoid teaching to kids anything by persons like Dr Sewell. The public education system has become a production line for generating activists for collectivist governance. When I was in school late 80'-early 90's it was mainly just the colleges doing the indoctrination but it wasn't as effective because you really need to start conditioning kids at a younger age so when they reach college they won't call BS to claims of absurdity and non-sense.
And conversely, consider if there were no detectable disparities, and what that would imply in practice. That's a description of a prison camp, not a utopia.
Related to this, Heather Mac Donald has a book coming out right about now about disparate impact, and how it’s rotting our society. I’ve been listening to her podcasts, and it’s bound to be a humdinger.
Thanks, Matt, for taking the time to think and write about this topic. I want to respond to your statements about creationists and the God of the Gaps argument. I hope you will extend me the grace of suspending your disbelief in my sincerity while considering my response. My aim is only to pique your curiosity as I have no doubt that you have already considered the topic.
Can a man die and produce offspring five years later? That’s an easy answer, yes. Suppose a man donates his sperm to a sperm bank and he dies a month later. Five years after his death, a woman is artificially inseminated and gives birth to his daughter. Given the current state of technology, it is not hard to imagine an artificial pathway to achieving this goal. Now suppose the question becomes, is there a natural pathway to a man dying and producing offspring five years later? This becomes a much more difficult scenario to imagine.
Suppose that after the daughter’s death, scientists discover the 5-year gap between the death of the father and birth of the daughter and want to determine the sequence of events that could have made this possible. They are limited in that any hypothesis which relies on any artificial pathway is not allowed, only natural pathways can be considered. How much time should the scientists spend trying to discover a natural pathway to explain the 5-year gap, controlling for all the other things it could be, before concluding an artificial pathway makes the most sense?
"Every citizen who's listening to this that has any kind of education at all should know that."
By any do you mean anything from a formal education in a government (or private) school to simply learning from your parents and relatives as you grow up as was teh case before schools became widely available or do you mean only in a formal educational environment with a teacher? If it's just the latter that's a bit insulting and possibly arrogant. You're implying that without formal educational setting people lacked basic logic and common sense which is simply not true.
Thanks for drawing the connection between Kendi's racism and the God of the Gaps arguments. Kendi's is indeed "Racism of the Gaps". He can be fairly paraphrased as claiming "wherever there is no evidence, there we have proof of racism".
Honestly I don't have time to read something this lengthy just for an answer to a question. Is there not a shorter, summarized answer to how abolishing freedom of associate is going to help?
I recommend reading "Discrimination and Disparities" by Thomas Sowell. In this book Sowell explains that disparities are normal throughout the natural and human world. Equal outcomes rarely ever happen because so many variables affect outcomes. A few of the many factors that cause human disparities include average age of group, personal preferences and abilities, the desire for upward mobility, parental priority given to education and hours spent doing homework. Lack of a father in the household is a very big factor since more than 80% of black kids are raised by their mothers alone. Being an anti-racist does not change any of the factors involved and, therefore, cannot result in a change in racial disparities. Both Sowell and Thornton do a great job of explaining this.
Anything by Sowell is outstanding. Thanks.
More recently studies show that if a child has to be in a single parent household they're better off with teh father than the mother and that goes for boys and or girls. Men in general are high in disagreeableness and are less likely to to go along with some kind of non-sense BS where as women will go along with it. In a father only household his traits and mannerisms are passed down to the child making them more resilient to woke non-sense.
Creating 1 parent households where it's the mother and not the father raising the child wasn't done by accident or chance. Before the government started subsidizing generations of black families the black community had a lower divorce rate and lower rate of 1 parent households than did whites. The destruction of teh black community started with the Federal government paying black women to raise kids without fathers. This was a legal way to effectively enslave blacks again. This time instead of in physical chains it was used with monetary chains. Skip forward a few generations and now they can weaponize anger within teh black community and direct it not at the true architects of it all but at the wider white community; to create race war. The same has been done between men and women, a sex war. Various groups of persons are being pitted against each other so we're all busy fighting with each other and not paying attention to what those in positions of leadership are doing. When the people are fighting each other they aren't paying attention to their government making it easier for nefarious state actors to engage in corruption.
He also goes into this at length in “Preferential Policies: An International Perspective”. It was hard to find, but good damn was it a good read. Everything being talked about by BLM or KenDiAngelo was already pre-debunked 30 years ago by Sowell.
Which is why public education does it's best to avoid teaching to kids anything by persons like Dr Sewell. The public education system has become a production line for generating activists for collectivist governance. When I was in school late 80'-early 90's it was mainly just the colleges doing the indoctrination but it wasn't as effective because you really need to start conditioning kids at a younger age so when they reach college they won't call BS to claims of absurdity and non-sense.
And conversely, consider if there were no detectable disparities, and what that would imply in practice. That's a description of a prison camp, not a utopia.
Related to this, Heather Mac Donald has a book coming out right about now about disparate impact, and how it’s rotting our society. I’ve been listening to her podcasts, and it’s bound to be a humdinger.
Read ther Moynihan report, written by one of the last centery's greatest liberal thinkers.
"This is not your father's creationism" - Michael Shermer
https://youtu.be/On-4lOWuWQQ?t=282
Thanks, Matt, for taking the time to think and write about this topic. I want to respond to your statements about creationists and the God of the Gaps argument. I hope you will extend me the grace of suspending your disbelief in my sincerity while considering my response. My aim is only to pique your curiosity as I have no doubt that you have already considered the topic.
Can a man die and produce offspring five years later? That’s an easy answer, yes. Suppose a man donates his sperm to a sperm bank and he dies a month later. Five years after his death, a woman is artificially inseminated and gives birth to his daughter. Given the current state of technology, it is not hard to imagine an artificial pathway to achieving this goal. Now suppose the question becomes, is there a natural pathway to a man dying and producing offspring five years later? This becomes a much more difficult scenario to imagine.
Suppose that after the daughter’s death, scientists discover the 5-year gap between the death of the father and birth of the daughter and want to determine the sequence of events that could have made this possible. They are limited in that any hypothesis which relies on any artificial pathway is not allowed, only natural pathways can be considered. How much time should the scientists spend trying to discover a natural pathway to explain the 5-year gap, controlling for all the other things it could be, before concluding an artificial pathway makes the most sense?
Thank you for considering my response.
"Every citizen who's listening to this that has any kind of education at all should know that."
By any do you mean anything from a formal education in a government (or private) school to simply learning from your parents and relatives as you grow up as was teh case before schools became widely available or do you mean only in a formal educational environment with a teacher? If it's just the latter that's a bit insulting and possibly arrogant. You're implying that without formal educational setting people lacked basic logic and common sense which is simply not true.
Thanks for drawing the connection between Kendi's racism and the God of the Gaps arguments. Kendi's is indeed "Racism of the Gaps". He can be fairly paraphrased as claiming "wherever there is no evidence, there we have proof of racism".
How is abolishing freedom of association going to help?
Honestly I don't have time to read something this lengthy just for an answer to a question. Is there not a shorter, summarized answer to how abolishing freedom of associate is going to help?