Thomas Sowell: Show Me the Evidence
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- čas přidán 18. 03. 2017
- It's simultaneously amusing and demoralising that basic common sense, evidence based arguments Thomas Sowell was making almost 40 years ago are still being ignored today in favour of emotions and feelings.
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We could only be so lucky to have a feminist like that in 2020.
F off
@Apollo Kenneth i will find you
@Trent Darian A trick: Flixzone is a scam
@Apollo Kenneth No you haven't
Thomas Sowell was 51 when this was recorded. He looked like a 30 year old.
example of black don't crack
Shit.. that’s crazy
@@wannabetechnician7451 'lest you smoke it💁🏿♀️ heh
How about Larry Elder he’s like 70 look 50
I'm sure he would say it is elementary: More melanin, less UV damage! I hope he lives to 120 so he can finally look 90
I guarantee if Thomas Sowell spoke today, people would accuse him of being a white supremacists
Jordan Peterson is saying many of the same things that Thomas is here. Look how the left tried to demonize him. Leftys do not like facts. They just want to divide us based on race gender and sexual orientation.
@@fattiemcfats9783 yep
@DrJ Knight already have
@@fattiemcfats9783 Peterson tried to undo the enlightenment without actually accepting God. He wanted to have his cake and eat it and ended up a junkie with no basis for his principles.
@@aaronquinn6626 What? Peterson highlighted the anti god socialist sjw/intersectionalist movement. Communists like you tried to demonize him for it. Tried.
He isnt a junkie. How do we know? There goes your false narrative. Try again, this time with gusto, perhaps some vigor.
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Why does the black community claim they don’t have any role models? This man is an extraordinary example.
Who says that?
They don't agree with his role...
@@theresag1969 Trust me. A helluva lot.
Stop the white pontificating on Black people!!!..You obviously have no Black friends, or haven't asked them that question!!..And because I'm Black does my role model have to be Black?..INCREDIBLE...Dr. Who is my role model
@@aarondixon7 exactly! Well said.
This man has zero lag. His answers come instantly and coherently.
When you know the answers before the question that what it looks like.
pre-learned answers
you know that topic well
you follow an ideology
YourNickIsTaken Probably more so well versed in the topic rather than just strictly adhering to an ideology.
PhD in economics from The University of Chicago, he’s also a great writer. He’s a true intellectual.
@@YourNickIsTaken yes because asking for evidence is an ideology
That's what happens when you don't smoke weed
Remember when interviewers use to let people talk...?
nope lol
today, its called interrogation.
Pieter Rossouw, remember that this is William F. Buckley jr. One of the greatest conservatives in the modern era. So of course he will treat his guest with respect. Even more so for a fellow traveler.
Remember when civil discourse was a thing and not PC police?
Oh, cmon. Interviewers were and ARE generally nice when they like what they hear, as is the case in this particular video. Same thing happens today.
And when you see Buckley interview somebody he disagrees with he's much more pointed. Not to mention his great fiery debates with Vidal in which he threatens violence he gets so worked up.
But hey...see what you want to see.
40 years later...and we are still having the same argument....this man should have been president.
bceaser1 everyone should be president!!
+Nunya Busness Same here. Or Allen West. Or Michael Steele. Hell, even Lynn Swann if he were serious. But NOOOO!!! I despise Obama, so I'm a racist.
oolon colluphid Right!!!!! any and all opposition to Obama was just brushed off as racist
bceaser1 Politics are for the sheep; I would think hardly any blacks would vote for him.
Dobby san Unfortunately, years of democrat policies /brainwashing and a toxic culture of victimology and thuggery does that to you
Thomas Sowell isnt a conservative necessarily..hes just an honest economist
Agreed. At least in his latter years he avoided any attempt by others to place him under any political flag.
If anything he leans in the Milton Friedman direction of libertarianism but not quiet that, he did it in his own way
I just saw him at the Hoover Institute CZcams channel saying he was Marxist in his 20s even during his lessons with Friedman at UChicago. Interesting.
Most college kids are marxists 😅
I find it funny that people ignore his points that are in favor of liberal policies in addition to his support of conservative policies. He is a truth speaker first, whoever has a policy that supports the actual data gets his whole hearted support. Americans now only look for a D or an R to decide who to vote for, driving the politicians to be just as clannish- devoid of logic. Hard facts are just that hard to swallow. BLM and other groups supporting police reform are driven by the stark inequities in the application of the law. FACT. Some of these protesters are irrational in the expression of their anger. FACT. There are subversive groups and individuals that are not affiliated with these legitimate protests that incite violence and destruction. FACT. Open your eyes and ears, seek out truth not propaganda.
This guy is as smooth as they come. No stuttering, no pausing, just spitting out facts and shutting down narratives like it's his job. Men like this are sorely needed today.
The consequences of being radical are minimal. The effect of stating truth can be final and devastating.
I appreciate Sowell's comments because so much evidence has been provided of the oppression of people in society that is caused by people in power wanting to ensure that their is a permanent underclass in America that can be exploited for financial gain, such as the prison industrial complex that uses prisoners as slaves for private and public organization labor force. I believe that evidence was available in his time also, but I'm not sure. I mean you'd think the presence of Jim Crow laws just 10 years earlier and the fact that women just gained birth control rights in 1971 would be evidence enough but he probably dismissed that evidence in his analysis.
Theres nothing wrong with stuttering if u cant help it.
@@SuperSpectrom stuttering when you're stalling because you don't have an answer in a debate it completely different than stuttering as a speech impediment.
@@pdag4685 First, I refer you to the 13th Amendment that allows slavery for prisoners. Second, Google "Penal Labor in the United States" to educate yourself on the use of prisoners by private industry.
Herein lies the problem with the public education system, the complete lack of accountability and personal responsibility!
Ian Paling you can say that for the media and government
Ian Paling There is a complete shutdown of any and all right wing political views. Belive me.
When I was in highschool (~2 years ago) the issue of gay marriage came up. We were told that not agreeing 100% with the establishment opinion was biggoted. Even as a mild mannered libertarian I was shouted down, all i said was "I only care when a priest or baker is forced to comply when unwilling" sounds perfectly reasonable right? Well apparently I'm a homophobe.
In another instance there was a compulsory anti rape seminar. A police officer was invited to do the talking and he said words to the effect of "If the women has been drinking, it is rape". I asked "So if she drinks then gets behind the wheel of a car, and hits a toddler, would she be deemed response for her actions?" He confirmed that she would. So I asked "so why, when she gets into a bed, is she suddenly free from responsibility, why do the circumstances dictate the coherency of her actions?" When he was unable to reply I was simply ordered to leave.
Being in a technical college I am free from most of the politicised bullshit. However I worry that the children in schools will simply swallow what the authority figures tells them.
Thomas Sowell: Absolute, Bloody Legend!
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And 40 years later we are still debating the same racial and gender misconceptions.
Just less civil and with less intellect...
@@swamidude2214 it would never, could never be this calm in 2021
Because the college students of 40 years ago are the senators of today.
They are still pushing the same ideology they were indoctrinated with in college.
@@welderlogic1806 and they are still cranking out more brainwashed students
@@guntodd That's their goal.
CZcams search a guy named Yuri Bezmenov. Watch the interview he did about "ideological subversion."
We should campaign for Sowell to be on Joe Rogan's podcast.
@Fretboard Burner it doesn't matter if you hate him or not, its a big platform to express ideas
@Fretboard Burner Man, you seem really butthurt right now. Would you like to show us on the doll where Joe Rogan touched you?
@Fretboard Burner Why? To broadcast vitally important views and information to a massive audience. Who? 9+ million subscribers and countless other listeners. You feeling ok today?
@Fretboard Burner And she clearly did a far better job that yours did.
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I'll give that woman 10 points for asking a question and then shutting up while Thomas spoke. Good luck interacting wit a feminist in such a manner today.
Matt Eddie But she wasn't listening. She basically kept repeating the same argument 3 times.
Yeah, you're right. but still 10 points for shutting up. Even if she has deaf ears, the audience is listening, I hope.
Yeah, feminists have killed manners. John Wayne said it best, "I feel as though I can't open a door for a lady or tip my hat to a lady these days". And that was in the 70's.
I am a 48 year old man that went on a date last month with a 45 year old woman. She told me that I was literally the first man to ever open a door for her. What the hell is wrong with people?
Sure, mate. I would say most men have the instinct to open a door for women and much more. But today's feminist would call it sexist or degrading, except the feminists who expect men to be slaves and even if you stopped to help them pick up their dropped paperwork or groceries, wouldn't say "thank you". Feminism is killing chivalry. I'll only 34, but I'm old fashioned. I'll care for and protect a woman, but if she gets hysterical or steals my money, she will taste the back of my hand.
I wouldn't debate Thomas Sowell if his mouth were taped shut. He would just take off his glasses, stare at me, and my arguments would fall apart under his gaze.
jdk050507 he engages with such confidence and composure that you can't even be mad that you lost. What a champ!
I heard he once did that + gently rubbed the bridge of his nose with his thumb and index finger.
It was a bloodbath.
An excellent observation!
jdk050507 lol
jdk050507 if I could choose anyone on earth to mentor my 17 year old daughter (just as Sowell, she's also a gifted writer) it would be Thomas Sowell. Mr. Sowell is the epitome of an intellectual, as opposed to the pseudo-intellectuals so prevelant in left wing academia.
40 years and we're still asking dumb questions and ignoring evidence.
40 years in the future this will still be the same for the very simple and obvious reason that the stupid far outnumber the smart.
Now the solution to the 'stupidity problem' is *highly unlikely* to be applied, ever, because that solution is a *very* dark truth that few people even dare whisper and public intellectuals and policy makers certainly daren't advocate. It's a solution that has long been known and disseminated into the public domain in science fiction writing but there it has remained, dismissed as too terrible for most people to even mention.
Thus humanity blunders forth in time and space like a species of beings afloat on a great ark that was built by a handful of brilliant people yet is being steered by a separate group the members of which are only distinguished from one another by being morons or cretins.
The decline of intellect and respect over the years is apparent lol
Say that again👍🏽
The attention given to intellect is gone. Shouting nonsense always gets more views than a good conversation. A bratty loudmouth is president. Not an intellectual.
I wouldn't say the 'decline of intellect', I though, would agree there is a major 'decline of intellectual discourse' allowed by the predominantly leftist media. When intellectual discussion and comparison is allowed, leftist's arguments and claims can not and do not stand up to logical scrutiny and they can not let this happen. Their narrative MUST be preserved and provocated without decent.
The Affiliate Right wing media invented that. Now all mainstream media is doing that same populist model to survive. Left wing media used to be the only one having an intellectual oriented programming/ articles. Or at least 90% of intellectual oriented media is/ was leftwing. Now everybody copies the Fox news template of saying outrageous anecdotal bullshit to get every viewer/ reader upset about a non-existent left versus right war.
@@theaffiliate4208 The problem is the lack of logical scrutiny. The amount of people I am unable to have a calm, intellectual conversation about current events and issues is concerning. The fact that people will get behind extreme left ideas and policies and blindly vote without even considering facts is concerning. There just is no opportunity for discussion with some people.
It's not a coincidence that Thomas Sowell is trending in 2020 amidst the Black Lives Matter uproar.
The problem is, that it's always the same people who end up watching him. The people who are in desperate need of listening to him, very rarely - if at all - are watching his numerous contributions.
I have watched his discussions for years. Unfortunately people are currently ruled by emotion rather than facts, evidence and logic...
Yet people still spout points in contention to what this man was saying.
Those are all good points guys. Imagine being shown some of this stuff in school growing up?? But those who run the schools would never allow that
FOR REAL!
“Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it.”
― Thomas Sowell
Then why support socialism for the big banks. None of you clowns pushed for prosecution of the big banks for housing crisis or how they used the fed to steal trillions
@@truthbearer7891 What ?
magnus4g63 You have that same energy for bank bailouts and corporate subsidies which are greater than welfare programs ?
@@truthbearer7891
I don't think you will find anyone more opposed to the fictional legal shields called corporations, the fiat currency blood sucking banks, the insane war funding fed, the bailouts and all other government abominations than me and the other voluntaryist anarchists like me.
We STRONGLY and virulently oppose and condemn all institutions and actions based in the initiation of violence.
War is mass murder government is slavery and TAXATION IS THEFT.
Truth Bearer Actual conservatives support a free market and disagree with corporate welfare and excessive citizen use of welfare.
"Human beings are not random events." I've never heard this Sowell quote before and it might be my favorite.
Such a great quote. That's why individualism is so important.
No way, human beings are the most random events. Just to be alive, u need to beat over 200 million sperm to the egg. I think the lottery has better oddss
@@coreyslater2801 lol
He's good like that. Endless qoutes by this man. He's great.
I think it’s hilarious how he is not revered by black culture. The man speaks the truth, with evidence. #legend
Look no further than the sports narrative pushed by the media to that demographic? Greatest marketing or farming system ever!
Because too many blacks today are in the "Their Truth" culture, which is rarely true or concise -- It's just a pop culture saying.
@@tnewsome9121 "my truth" is simply a way to express false opinions while being exempt from any sort of rational critical thinking on said opinions
I worship no man but Thomas Sowell is definitely my main intellectual role model.
As a black man, I can openly acknowledge that way to many black people steer away from any sort of accountability. It's far easier to do that and cry foul. Instead of brilliant black men like Thomas Sowell or Elder, or even Candace Owens, we trott out Kamala Harris, Al Sharpton and Don Lemon....do i need to say anything more? We act like Clarence Thomas isn't a brilliant black man sitting in the Supreme Court lol. How is this man not revered by the black community is beyond me.
Sowell's like 10 Ben Shapiro's in one. His face is almost saying, "Really? Is this even a question at all?" He's bored by how stupid the supposed "problem" is and how easy it would be to show the lack of evidence.
thomas sowell influenced many of ben shapiros theories, many of his facts are from thomas sowells books. thomas sowell is one of the most brilliant economists and thinkers of our time
I think Ben learned a lot from individuals like Sowell, Williams. Friedman, and Elder.
Karl Hiramanek or maybe he is just the black version of Ben Shapiro and Ben Shapiro is the white version of Thomas Sowell
He's 1000 Shaprios in one. Dont discredit Sowell by comparing them.
Karl Hiramanek while Shapiro iss good this I 40 years ago and it's sickining that these questions are STILL being asked
I wish Mr. Sowell was still in the public eye, he was so intelligent and insightful.
Although Dr. Sowell has retired from writing a regular column, he still writes --- just not on a regular schedule. His most recent was published on 3/14/17, on the topic of "moral dry rot in academia."
What's needed are people who are worthy of carrying his torch. Someone like Ben Shapiro.
@sik3xploit Ben Shapiro is great, obviously. He's a very clear, direct, and charismatic speaker. Walter Williams is likely close to retirement like Dr. Sowell, but he's definitely worth reading and sharing. There's also Murray Rothbard, Ludwig Von Mises, Frederic Bastiat, Friedrich Hayek, Milton Friedman, Robert Nozick, and many others. That said, there are plenty of people who can carry Dr. Sowell's torch, and *we* are those people. We have to understand those truly liberal ideas, learn how to communicate them in ways that the average person will understand, and spread them as far and wide as we can. It's up to us, I think, as difficult and daunting as that challenge may be.
Sowell is alive in richard ayoade
Kubomi look up Larry Elder
If the world paid attention to this man, things would go much better
Unbelievable. Feminists haven't changed their tune even down the most pianissimo sixty-fourth note. And poor Mr. Sowell. He's spent, basically, his entire adult life having his hard work largely ignored more and more as our academic system fell victim to the simple minded weasels like our fair feminist here.
40 years later and people still don't understand that averages don't mean discrimination.
Back in the days when interviewers asked intelligent questions.
(17:43) - "Would it be your *FEELING* that if all the affirmative action programs were discontinued, women and minorities would go ahead much faster than they have under the affirmative action programs?"
I think he meant the male interviewer not the old school feminist. But atleast they let him have his say and did not interrupt him screaming so there's allready an improvement you miss nowadays.
this man is the Chuck Norris of rationality.
It's actually too easy for him, he's almost bored by how actually simplistic and true it is
Funny how truth comes easy but lies take effort.
wow sowell is a walking red pill dispenser
Are you suggesting the black man is a drug dealer? Racist.
Npc memes from the past
No he's just brilliant. He had a great grasp on economics and on current affairs in this country.
@@illusion466 lol nice
Darn those intellectual facts making me feel like I'm inferior!
"No, you don't know that of your own knowledge." *wipes smile off her face* LMAO!!
Vivin Viswanathan i loved how he said it with such confidence, plus how she waited to rebuttal that. nowadays a feminist would just scream thr place down while the guy talking would just laugh and make it a spectacle
Vivin Viswanathan lol
That was classic and what should happen today. But it does not. The Left states falsehoods as if they are facts simply by the conviction of their statements, and normally people back down, even when they know what was stated was wrong.
The single vs never married part was particularly satisfying.
that does show how wording can allow statistics to be skewed, doesn’t it?
and when it comes to the “wage gap”, there are many factors that contribute to the issue. age, marital status, education, children, etc on and then more abstract factors like culture, desire to move up, dedication, etc
That caught me as well, so obvious once its pointed out, but so easy to manipulate with wording
100%
I have watched this clip many times and it never gets old. Neither in listening to Sowell speak or the relevance of the topic. Sowell is timeless.
"It's not my opinion, the data indicates..."
That's funny, I hear Jordan Peterson being forced to say those exact words all the time...
Jordan Peterson is a clown lol
@@edwrdslee7427 why is that?
@@edwrdslee7427 Marxist spotted
Edwrds Lee
Dr. Peterson is a genius.
ben williams I like him but one of my friends said that he doesn’t think mental health issues are real. And idk where the fuck he got that information because from what I’ve seen that’s not true I think, have I just not watched enough of his videos? Isn’t he a psychologist? That would mean he clearly understands mental health which he seems to. I just know he’s a professor but idk what in.
In summary: "the data say STFU!"
While leftists tell the data to STFU.
This woman is just one example of people who look at oversimplified statistics and draw immediate false conclusions.
Now understand that there are millions like her, some of which are in positions of power to determine the laws that govern our lives.
It's at the minimum, very worrying.
lady? oh, I thought that was George Washington. It must be his wig.
Yes, but if you take her oversimplified example to draw immediate conclusions to become worried, would you not be just like her?
Dont take this the wrong way, I don't mean to be insulting. Just saying, that the mental reflexes, presented by her are present in all of us. And thinking, you're above that, cause you're not saying the exact things like her, is a great way to slowly become more and more blind to your own reflexes.
@@Kristoph567 Her example isn't oversimplified, it's very simple in it's nature. "There's a wage gap when looking at total yearly salaries, so gender based discrimination must take place", there's no "deeper meaning" to it. And my conclusion is based on experience and my own witnessing of countless liberal/feminist women spitting this same nonsense over and over again, whether it's in my life or online. I feel like we agree on this topic but you're trying for some reason to pick up an unproductive argument for the sake of arguing.
This was filmed in 1981.....the rhetoric and brainwashing since then has only gotten much worse, aided by 24/7 “news” and social media/the internet. I really don’t know what women in America can be complaining about in 2021. Maybe 1981, but today? Where is all this oppression? Like when the one man stated there aren’t more women in congress, my first though, how many have run?
This man is an intellectual machine-gun spitting facts and logically breaking down the opponent like a goddamn MG 42.
Worst enemy of every leftist 🤷♂️
And it's not even his final form
wow...if he worked for GOOGLE he would be fired for talking sense
Google in all its "insight" would hire and send him to valet the cars of the visiting "politically correct" and useful idiots.
@@stevejaubert2892 So as to make up their race quotas.
Why would he get fired for speaking sense?
Ian Shumway I would ask James Damore that question.
@jacob bogers haha haha
Is there a Thomas Sowell Bat signal? Cause we need him.
who is "we?"
Lmaoo and to 2K america needs him
Like never before.
The man was ahead of his time and thus is more prescient and relevant today.
Sowell is the chillest intellectual ever. I’d love to see him and Peterson talk.
This gentleman is brilliant. I'd love to hear more from him.
Dolce Dolente That is a very easy feat luckily.
There's plenty on CZcams.
Dolce Dolente discovered him today!
You should definitely dive into his writing. His books are nothing short of brilliant. "A Conflict of Visions" and "The Vision of the Anointed: Self-Congratulations as a Basis for Social Policy" are just a couple of of his works.
But definitely start with his books though. Obviously videos are better than nothing but the books go into much, much greater detail.
Thomas is 51 here. The interviewer is only 5 years older than him. Share that youth elixir bro
Just Moosing Around The elixir is called the Smarty Juice.
+VideaVice25 Black don't crack baby
nothing a little lotion can't fix
Just Moosing Around He looks like an eighteen year old dude.
Thor Show us the evidence!
Thomas is legitimately one of the sharpest men I have ever listened to. Actually, he may be the sharpest and most quick-witted of all of them. And his logical deductions and counter arguments get right to the core issues at hand. Incredible!
If I was told I had to debate and Sowell showed up as my opponent, I’d simply walk out and admit defeat.
It's not my opinion, it's the data!! Ugh Thomas Sowell is so awesome. Why can't we take the emotion out of things and look at reality as it is?
When talking to leftists that moralize everything, its damn near impossible.
Lefty are more complicated than Quantum Physics.
Because no one likes to face the music. People prefer a distortion of reality.
Everyone is so well spoken. Where the arguments haven't changed, the amount of respect for people who are speaking to each other sure has.
I think what you mean to say is as the liberal agenda is pushed further the situation in the country because of it is going down further aswell. It has managed to radicalize the far left and right into political correctness.
Agreed!
that's because 99% of what the left say in comments is pure cuckery!
You could not turn on the tv and see a conversation that even remotely resembles this one in the year 2020
Mr Sowell is refreshing, common sense and facts, razor sharp .
I never understood people’s obsession with race and sex, while screaming sex and race doesn’t matter
For the same reason Rambo set the whole town ablaze in First Blood, one building at a time
The buildings weren’t the objective, it was just to sow confusion, a smokescreen to get to his real objective. They’re at war with us while we just wanna get through the day
Its weird. Doesnt make any sense
It's because they believe that it *shouldn't* matter, but society (particularly in behalf of white men) targets and exploits such groups to maintain dominance (or has unwittingly acquired this privilege from history). They believe the fairytale that if you toppled that assumed power structure that everyone would basically have equal outcomes.
@Wills Pram killing is wrong unless in order to protect other lives.
@Wills Pram the blue Man shouldn't be killed without just cause, just being a criminal that was previously convicted doesn't mean it's ok for someone to shoot him. This analogy is lacking clarity.
Sowell’s processing power is so much faster than everyone he talks to.
Yep. Very impressive to watch. Almost a savant
Even faster than Joe Biden (of today)?
Come on man nobody is that fast that is a load of malarky.
Thats because it's like having to explain the same joke over and over again to people who are too simple minded to "get it."
Mr. Buckley would have threatened to punch you in the face if you had said that in his presence.
Thomas Sowell's column ran in the Detroit News when I was a kid. He gave me a great deal of grounding. He's awesome.
Respect for a man that won’t compromise his beliefs to their surroundings.
Snap a picture before they go extinct.
I cried when Thomas Sowell retired. He's still alive, but it still marked the end of an era.
This really was the golden age of journalism. Buckley challenges Sowell with new left arguments unapologetically. He doesn't say, "some would say that," or "tell me why feminists are so wrong about female representation in government." He just challenges Sowell with the argument. And not only that, but challenges him with a philosophically charitable version of the argument. I mean... this is almost unheard of today. I so took this for granted when I was young.
Man I know how you feel. Its great looking back on things you put aside and find that you can now understand what was being discussed.
Kenith Grimwalker technology has its good, I'm greatful for youtube!
Buckley was one of the last great conservative show hosts
Evidence is THE most important thing, and he's right, they don't use a proper method to get accurate results.
"Its as if these self evident truths have been brought down from the mountainside"
This video needs to be shown in every High School Social Studies class. At least once every year.
Thomas Sowell is one of the most intelligent economists to ever grace the subject.
Greatest contemporary philosopher. czcams.com/video/oww-4wdrvgI/video.htmlm53s
Why?
Steve True
@@diempardon4259 Fuck off
Thomas Sowell: a Gentleman and a Savage. Well played
It's SHOCKING how true his reasoning remain today and how old and flawed the arguments of systemic discrimination really are. This video should be viewed by EVERYONE.
It's so sad that this was said 40 years and we have learned nothing.
There was nothing to learn from the beginning. People have been peopling for a 100 000 years. The entire argument was, and continues to be manufactured to advance or destabilise a political controversy or position. Tom Sowell is absolutely secure in his grounding of history and anthropology. No doubts, hesitations, thoughtful pauses, etc. He just steamrolls ahead with realities of existence that we all knew instinctively before the obfuscation brought on by certain agenda driven minorities. Sorry for my drivel.
Learned nothing? Like basic grammar?
Communist subversion tactics
Unfortunately he still rejects the evidence when it comes to genetic differences and puts it all down to culture.
So you think black people havent gained anything in the last 40 years
Him catching the single vs never married was a good catch. Wow.
Yeah that was amazing
I heard that and was actually hoping he'd point out the significance of how much you "earn" compared to your hourly wage. Men often work overtime or at least full time, women do not as much, so men end up earning more, even if they have a lower hourly wage.
Citizen of Earth Women are more likely to use their days off as well.
@@SteveSmith-ty8ko This is true. 2 women on my team ran out of off time last year, I came into the yeat with 100+ hrs.
@First Last You're right, he is very aware of the abused terms around the illusory wage gap.
“Part time workers make less than full time workers.” The fact that this needs to be pointed out, wow.
“In a country where half the people are women, if they wanted to fill the Senate with women they could very well do it” - Classic Sowell
I would love to sit at a table with Dr. Sowell for the rest of my life and just question him on everything in life. I love this gentleman!
Jerome Danner we all love him Jerome!
nonya bidness Nope! But I am bound to pick up something if I have him for any question that I want answered. Haha!
Buy his books! He has written many books.
Alton Ego Yeah, I need to work on it.
Love him too. Bought a couple of his books. Great man. Could listen to him forever.
That's a quote to remember: Human beings are not random events.
but they are
Yeah, I also didn't like that when I heard him say that, but it made sense later. People are not random events in a sense, that they have a history and some non-random factors that have put them where they are.
nothing is random. Even random number generators aren't random
Radioactive decay is random. Say you had a bunch of radioactive atoms. You know the half-life of the element, so you know, that if you wait for that amount of time that half of the atoms would decay.
However, you cannot tell which of these atoms are going to decay and when. This is completely random.
You can use radioactive decay to create a true random number generator.
So, you see, you're wrong. Some things are random.
SapereAude1490 It is only random as far as we do not know or understand the nature in which it decay, for us it may very well seem random but it may be the opposite.
Thomas Sowell is an American treasure!!!
“Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.'” ― (Isaac Asimov)
"Human beings are not random events..."
Thomas Sowell
It's literally just a quote......hyper antithetical much😂😂😂
@@slickboyd ass u me the irony isn't lost on me. People like to assume stuff....like assuming that people are advocating creationism by posting a quote.
The quote is Sowell's and the only assumption is yours by admission directly after defending your original statement with claiming to want to avoid assumption.👌👌😂😂😂😭😭😭😭
@@slickboyd well that's why they say that about assuming lol.. makes an ass of u and me. 'We're not random events' means our lives intertwine and relate. Actions have consequences, if we live together we'll share knowledge and tricks
Make no mistake ... We were created
Love at 18:35 Sowell smacks down her attempted anecdote as evidence. Hate people who think they're singular experiences equate to statistical evidence. They're like tourists who think their two week venture makes them an expert on a country's citizens.
Mal Vane, I use the phrase "sure, but that's in your small bubble of experience" to quickly deflate the common pattern of attempting to inflate one's anecdote into a general principle. It works quickly and well and without disrupting the flow of the conversation
Jack Hack, Jesus your mind is lazy. He qualified it with "tourists who" not "all tourists"
When you remove the emotional appeal and the blaming from the discussion things are not so complicated to understand.
When someone starts to rock side to side in their chair after being asked a question, you know they’re about to drop some jewels.
Cooler, better spoken, and more intellectually sound than Obama. Why couldn't we get this guy as president for 8 years?!
Dan Moriarty Because he’s Conservative.
He doesn't want to run. No smart conservative wants to be president and that's the biggest problem we face in politics. Non of the well-known and smart pundits like Ben Shapiro want to run for office either. Politics attracts dishonest people, and those who like putting their noses in other peoples business.
The average decent person just wants to mind his/her own business and let others do the same.
People like Thomas and every one who knows who is really running the world also know that they would be assassinated if they tried to steer us away from the direction we're going. Just look at Trump and the intense fever of hatred directed at him, not just by the swamp, but the intellectually challenged left. He is working for free, doing things for their benefit and they hate him. They don't want a country that works or any of the things they claim to want, but prefer to see America destroyed. They would murder Trump if they thought for a second they could get away with it. Thomas knows he would suffer the same derision and ingratitude if he became president and tried to benefit the spoiled hateful left, and he knows he would be murdered by them.
Cooler? No. Better spoken? Nope. More intellectually sound? Arguable, but not obvious. Sowell as president? We've had neo-liberal economic policy since the Reagan era. It is arguable that the affects of having an extremely wealthy 0.1% and a shrinking middle class are yet to be seen. I few would argue that this is a desirable fruit of unrestrained neo-liberalism. (Erroneously called neo-conservatism)
Fully
Cause hes neither a douche nor a turd.
"I know that of my own knowledge"
"No you don't know that of your own knowledge"
Savage!
Making people prove what they claim to know is the quickest way to shut down a poser. This woman was clearly a poser who had no idea who she was dealing with.
Tommy Shuts them up with...THE FACTS ! Indisputable,pure FACTS! Lolololol...😊
A liberal reviewer writing about Sowell's book "Intellectuals and Society" had their article removed for including a comment that what Thomas was writing about was "easy for a rich white man to say" I believe this speaks volumes about how white liberals feel about the black population, it never could occur to them that a black person would dare disagree from their preassigned world view.
Someone who is too lazy to look up the person they are writing about surly must have a strong position that is well researched
Sowell is a treasure!
Thomas Sowell has such a brilliant logical mind.
I just stumbled on him. Ive been saying alot of the things he says for years just from personal experience. Growing up homeless and poor, then military, then school, career and owning a home. Im 33!and white. Liberals always blame my success on my race. This man breaks it all down. Blows holes in the liberal ideology and he grew up through the civil rights movement. Im in chapter 3 of his book on basic economics. The man is a genius.
Now why can't people do interviews like this now ? Very respectful and no shouting and calling each other names. These days it's a whole lot of shouting and no listening.
Wow! People back in 1981 actually had intellectual capacity to watch shows like this! I can't imagine something similar being aired today!
Knee-Cola oh how we have fallen...and they wonder how society changed. ..Our lack of desire for objective thoughts.
It was on PBS.
Dude, stuff like this is all over the internet. Podcasts. Audiobooks. Check them out.
There wasn't any of that in 1981
They also had bigger hair. xD
So you're saying I'm a lobster?
anthony orsi Haha!
Is that what you’re saying?
Do you feel like a lobster? Lol
The social importance of this comment is frightening.
What?
I long for the days of civil discourse.
“The unfortunate thing is that politics is about telling people what they want to hear “
"I know that of my own knowledge-"
"NO, NO YOU DON'T KNOW THAT OF YOUR OWN KNOWLEDGE"
😂😂😂😂
Her face after he said that was great.
Her reaction to that needs to be on the watch people die inside subreddit.
I love this old chat show. It’s just classy. No flashy colours and music. No annoying audience.
Bit sad that these logical arguments are still not getting though to some people.
Scott Williamson yeeh it’s awesome. Personally not a huge fan of Buckley but he did let people of different opinions speak on his show. And also the culture of debate seems different from now where people are just yelling at each other .
@@nicholasl8249
The media is at the heart of the decline of society. It is the very reason why most people do not care about important things in their life.
Why the likes of the media can push sugar tax and why the legislature can then introduce laws that then push the taxes.
@Critique Everything You say that as if you're not? Please explain why you think so.
I love to listen to Thomas Sowell.
Dr. Thomas Sowell: Putting idiots in their place for over 40 years
Even the lady is impressive. Calm. Reasonable. Let’s Thomas talk. Seems to take his point of view into consideration.
I guess times really have changed
Very true. Valid concerns the public is asking.
I feel bad too, cuz I took a look at her and went "Ah man, what kind of archaic-traditional values does THIS woman hold." Totally judging her by first glance. And you're totally right, she was respectful, she wasn't "trapping" at all, as in she was fairly straight forward with the phrasing of her questions. I respect asking the questions, I just think we need to be accepting of an answer and not so concrete in our idea that "My way will work" when it should be "THIS way SHOULD work". It's hard as shit to do cuz the first thing you gotta do to be objective is literally pretend you, yourself, are wrong. Just to allow you to actually look for holes in your theory from a standpoint you would otherwise not see. Thats what used to give people confidence in their opinions, knowing they thought of it from the other side, truly. Now people seem confident in their opinion if they can be louder than the other...
Calm, Reasonable and letting people talk apparently isn't what people want to watch and sells advertisement. I cut the cable years ago, but I'm taking care of my dad and get to overhear the yelling back and forth on his tv.
Yep how times have changed; pure tragedy. Now they've got that TOXIC TV Program titled "The View"! 🤣 The first day that trash came on TV it was definitely a sad, sad day for America 😥
Today he'd probably be said to be "mansplaining" 🤦🏻♂️ even though you could say the same argument to a man with exactly the same words.
He totally smacked down that Mozart cosplayer.
:'D hhaahah
Buckley was playing devil's advocate, he's actually a conservative.
Ruprec God Almighty, you're a stupid juvenile.
aaw shut up, that was a really great joke
😂😂😂
This is what everyone warns us about - the fact that history repeats itself if you don’t learn from it!
Here is a prime example!
Problems of the black community would be solved tomorrow if they idolized men like this even half as much as men like jay z
Anthony Thompson nobody said not to idolize Jay-z. He has achieved so much! I’m just saying to also look to men like Thomas as role models for living your life and to gain from his wisdom.
Rob Rose facts
@Hector Lewis Orange man bad for sure, but what's worse is the gross misinformation you provided. Just google your bullet points and you'll find countless resources that clarify these terribly muddied "facts" you've provided.
Same with white people as well...
@@evanjohn6934 everything Hector said is spot on! No need to google where there are a thousand different spinsters twisting the truth. I will give you source documents to prove every word Hector said! Say yes and give me your email.
This interview makes me wish modern news were more like the 80's and 70's. You might not like the interviewers but at least they are asking Sowell tough questions in an educated, professional fashion. They use terms like blacks, whites, and Hispanics because modern political correctness hasn't told them saying "African American" is better yet. Their manner of speaking and diction isn't attempting to appeal to a wider audience, the common denominator. This is an intellectual discussion on social issues with a legitimate intellectual as the interviewee...I love it.
Midironica What a perfect comment. I 100% agree.
I was slightly bothered by the way his lips barely moved when he talked.
Brice Hatcher 😂
Brice - Bothered? ............. Or maybe a little turned on?
it is not political correctness that resulted in 'african americans' being adopted, it was the consensus by intellectual blacks such as Dr King, on behalf of blacks, that requested that change. Are you seriously going to deny a group of people a request like that?
Sowell doesn't actually identify as a conservative or a liberal. Or a republican or a democrat. He understands that aligning yourself to a group identity based on your opinions is foolhardy at max
Just facts
Not just you're opinions but by prescribing to groupthink and picking a side you inherently adopt preconceived and preformed ideologues to be regurgitated which leads to the hypocrisy and cognitive dissonance that we see from these groups.
He is a classical liberal. And around the world he is considered a liberal (not in the american meaning of the word of course)
Joining a club tends to oblige you to adopt their ideas. It's the reason I'm not a part of BLM, I support the idea of racial equality obviously, but I'm not going to attach myself to people or movements because those things are inconsistent and unreliable.
Just look at what BLM is now afterall...
@@Gaboxxy96 he's mentioned in his interviews that he doesn't associated with either liberal or conservative. He's an economist and not a politician for that reason exactly
"It's simultaneously amusing and demoralising that basic common sense, evidence based arguments Thomas Sowell was making almost 40 years ago are still being ignored today in favour of emotions and feelings.
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well said!
Legend!
At 90 years old id STILL vote for him
Thomas Sowell is probably my favourite person ever. Great choice.
Thomas Sowell Milton Friedman and Ron Paul are all tied for my favorite people(outside of family)
I can watch this over and over. Thomas Sowell can explain better than anyone. Why don't we learn him in school?
Hard to say conclusively....my personal opinion is it would be the end of a poltical party as its currently constructed...empowering the individual is not high as a priority...this man could single-handedly change a generation ...its not an accident he isnt required reading