@@planecrashes633 🤔…Somewhere here must be a germ of an idea for thriller screenplay… (😏Hey-how could it be any worse that the stuff Hollywood’s been dumping on us these past several years?…)
He's a snake in the grass. A whole-throated, anti-white racist who calls whites Crackers and believes we STILL are responsible for black failure. At some point in time, people might figure out the blacks cannot succeed for some other reason that white racism.
Oh my, such a mass of wisdom and knowledge in one short video! May God bless Dr Sowell and spread his books everywhere. And let us be humble enough to learn!
That quote from Sowell's book near the end of the video - talking about the intelligentsia making "excuses for moral squalor and barbaric behavior" applies even more today than even in the 1960s. Now, you have an "intelligentsia" that has institutionalized, promoted, and protected "moral squalor and barbaric behavior" among black americans nowadays. I'm younger than Sowell, having grown up in the 60s/70s, but that "moral squalor" among black americans still was not so common at all. But today that squalor and barbarism is ubiquitous and now spills out into the mainstream of american social life, creating dangers that no civilized society should endure. The middle class democrat blacks and their white liberal fellow travelers provide nutrient for this aberrant behavior by defending and protecting it supposedly in the name of fighting racism. But they in fact make it impossible even to reach, much less teach and put on a straighter life path the young men and women most directly impacted by this moral squalor and barbarism. This is tragic and shameful.
In the 60's the left started a war on Poverty but, actually put forth an polycy of driving fathers out of the lives of children creating single parent households.
This is the way to handle IQ and race, with facts and evidence. Insisting that even asking the question is racist will convince few people of much, but will convince some that somebody is afraid of a topic.
To me the whole idea of intelligence as measured by standardized tests needs to be re-examined. The sense is, some have argued, that overall intelligence involves far more than what is measured by standardized IQ tests. I don't think it can be denied that the tests can be usual...but only in a very limited way. After what I've seen of people over the past 2.5 years, particularly of people I once esteemed for their intellect, the whole idea of "intelligence" must be thoroughly reexamined. I watched smart and accomplished people accept all the crap coming out of the msm about the scam pandemic, BLM and George Floyd and Antifa, the white supremacy threat, the "safe and effective" vaccines for covid, and so on...simply swallowing whole, without the slightest question all the contradictory and inconsistent nonsense that was being pushed on them and everybody else. And even worse, I watched those same people even take up Biden's call to turn on and ostracize their own family members if they were unvaxxed...again without pausing to consider what was actually being promoted...which was the destruction of the family! Anyone who took the time to pause and examine the obvious lies, disinformation, and misinformation coming out of the msm (and still coming out) could immediately see that what the TV or the NYT were pushing was absolute propaganda garbage. By acting this way, these supposedly intelligent people are actually promoting their own demise and that of their offspring...as we're seeing everyday now. So yes, it's time to reassess the idea of "intelligence."
@@ltravail You think their intelligence should have them focus on truth. They use their intelligence to advance within the organization in spite of the truth.
Both you, and Sewell need to do more research on the topic instead of just calling it racism. There exists biological differences between all the races and one such proven difference is brain size and intelligence.
@@johnbloom1109 Hey John! I commented in appreciation of bringing facts and evidence instead of just calling the topic racism. And then you said that I and "Sewell"(sic) need to do more reasearch instead of just calling it racism. I suggest that in the future you read comments before you respond to them.
I totally agree with Dr. Sowell that IQ tests can be very biased towards certain cultures. Questions coming from an unknown culture can skew things. I remembered living in KwaZulu, right in the tropics. An example about the effect of surface size in heat transfer was, "Why do you break ice in small pieces in order to cool your drink?" This was asked of students who have never seen ice or owned a freezer. The boy that I helped did not have a clue what was asked. -- Until I asked why he used small branches for kindling to start a fire. Immediately his face lit up and he gave the correct answer! The wording of a question makes a world of difference!
What an enormous help this man has been to me in understanding the world in which I now live. Knowledge and data aid much in diffusing the prejudices and biases that surround us constantly. Thank you sir, I have read two of your books thus far and look forward to reading the next one!
I always hear about how President Wilson was the guy who created the progressive movement in America. I know that so much information today is filling in a lot of the blanks, and things we never learned in public schools growing up. We can understand where racism grew and spread long ago that flipped completely our viewpoint of who were racists and who wasn’t. Thomas Sowell and Dinesh D’Souza are two men smashing the liberal stereotype of the left versus the right, and they are doing it wonderfully.
The last couple of minutes in particular is the perfect summation of today's society. I'm just not sure we will ever be able to move beyond this crazy time. I fear things have gone too far.
What a brain Thomas Sowell has , so much intelligence i'm surprised his head doesn't explode ! So much of what he says is like a new insight into what was before our very eyes all along , it just needed someone like Thomas to open our eyes and help us to see it .
As part of my firearms business I administer the test that must be passed before receiving a California Firearms Safety Certificate. Around 80% of the people who were born in Mexico fail the test on the first try. However, 95% of Hispanics who were born in the US pass the test on their first try. Both groups have the same racial makeup, but one group vastly out performs the other on this test. Why? Are Hispanics born north of the Rio Grand somehow smarted than their cousins born south of that river? Somehow I doubt it. I believe the reason could be that in Mexico legally owning a firearm is much harder than it is in the US, so most young people in Mexico have not been exposed as much to firearms, (and firearms safety). But, because a large percentage of the US population owns some type of firearm, most young Hispanics born in America were taught by dad, or uncle Joe, about the basics of gun safety at a young age.
Natural selection is happening all the time. The hispanic born in USA are of the kids of the best hispanic that moved to states for better life. the were best of best and its same for all immmigrant community . s
@@siwach6394; what makes you think the Hispanics who come to the US are the "best" Hispanics? Do you claim people who decide to stay in Mexico, or any other Latin American country, are "stupid"? If that was true, then the Hispanics who come to America are the smarter ones, right, Then how does that explain why those "smarter" Hispanics have trouble with the test, but their kids and grand-kids don't? Like a boat with a large whole in it, your logic doesn't hold water.
@@amazingjason455; and what do you base your learned option on? Something some Left Wing Liberal Professor might have told you? Or have you done a real study on the subject complete with evaluating hundreds of volunteers and three different test the State issues? In fact, have you ever even seen the California Firearms Safety test, much less ever taken it? NO, you haven't! Because if you had, you would know how stupid your comment really is. By the way, of the 30 questions on the test, only 2 pertain to State law, (the other 28 questions are on gun SAFETY, NOT the law), and you can miss 7 questions and still pass. But then, you didn't know that, did you.
I'm not prejudiced against any type of person I hate everybody equally until they show me a reason not to. I'm just joking around I have respect for every body until they show me differently.
IQ between groups of people, separated by 1000s of miles, evolving for 1000s of years, in radically different environments, being exactly equal is an impossible and naive belief.
Agreed. Although Dr Sowell makes good points about the way that culture can affect IQ, I think he dismisses the genetic side of things a little too quickly. His points about how various groups used to have the highest level of civilization only to be supplanted by others are worth noting, but I think he too quickly discards any genetic component because he - like the vast majority of people - does not give natural selection enough credit for acting rapidly. In fact, we have fairly solid evidence for very rapid evolution among humans in the last 10,000 years, and really advantageous genes can sweep through populations in just two or three centuries to become almost ubiquitous where they were formerly absent. When you combine this swift shift in genes with cultural innovations you will sometimes get very big changes in a short time. As just one example, circa 1500 my Scottish ancestors were widely (and probably correctly) considered half-savage, and by the late 1700s the Scottish enlightenment and Scottish engineering had changed the world for the better in rather big ways, both in politics and in material culture. Although seldom so quick and dramatic, similar shifts appear to have happened in multiple populations and there is no reason to believe that it won't happen again. My chief objection to progressive views on race is that they completely misunderstood the mechanisms by which intelligence and other useful traits were selected for, and many of their interventions - especially the interventions made in the 1960s - made things worse. Especially the welfare state - which takes from those who are productive and by depriving them of their wealth makes it more difficult for them to raise children, while giving to those who are non-productive thereby making it easier for them to have more children - is essentially a subsidy of negative traits accompanied by punishment of positive traits - and in just a few generations can wreak havoc on a civilization. By contrast, good incentives can improve a civilization considerably within a few centuries - though it may be that positive change takes a bit longer than negative change. The other great thing about a system of good incentives is that they work fairly well regardless of what the original stock is. Convergent evolution among multiple species has demonstrated to us that similar incentives tend to produce similar results regardless of original stock - which should be regarded as good news for anyone embracing true meritocracy. In this sense Dr Sowell is correct to emphasize culture, as the culture itself can improve the genetics - or make them worse. But no doubt that genetics do play an important role as well.
The decline in every aspect started with the break up of the black family, the denigration of black fathers. No father; no leadership for the children to maintain proper behavior and self-worth. Plus, those fathers became burdens on society rather than leaders in their homes. Remove the cornerstone of the black society and it all eventually comes tumbling down.
If you can convince somebody that their lack of success is somebody else' fault, then you deprive them of all agency. When success or failure is not the result of your own actions, then to take action at all is a waste of time.
Pretty evil, when you think about it. Edit; I just had a thought: isn't this what the Democrat Party does to every "minority" group? Then blames all their woes on white men?
FA Hayek wrote in Road to Serfdom “you have to know what can go right, before you can know what will go wrong”. Sowell takes this to socioeconomics when he says “Don’t look at who did what wrong, look at who did it right”. This will give more conclusive answers and evidence.
Touchy subject "IQ & RACE!" Even the brillient Sowell was struggleing. IQ testing is nothing more than a tool to determine what ones apptitudes are and whether one is qualified for certain tasks. Due to the man shortage during the Viet Nam War the military IQ Standard was lowered. We were called McNamaras Morons as many of the draftees should never have been inducted. With idustrialization manual labor which fitted the market for lower IQs became scares, so society has a pool of unproductive members. Professor Jorden did an exallent video just on IQ.
@@theisheep2676 It tests one area of cognitive ability. That evening said some people are naturally more intelligent than others but I don't believe race has anything to do with it.'
@@theisheep2676 Hard to say. National testing shows Asians with high IQs, then Caucasians, Latin Ameicans then African Americans. Maybe it has to do with enviormental conditions where a harsher climate produces a more industrias people in order too survive.
@@markwarnberg9504 No it doesn’t. Also your completely forgetting west Asians and south Asians. There are no races within the human species. And nobody can evolve a certain threshold of intelligence. There’s a bell curve for a reason and you can find smart a d dumb people in all population groups. Only difference is the average cos of numerous factors. Iq has a level of inheritance but it takes a couple generations of high socioeconomic living standards to increase the IQ
@@theisheep2676 Yes we are ALL of the Human Race! it is within that group there are differances and differences with in those sub groups. The Bell Curve is to find the average. Prof. Jorden Peterson has some good videos on IQ.
If we had more Educators like Dr. Thomas Sowell. Parents wouldn’t have to worry about someone Transgenderlysing and Indoctrinating our Children. All day long Yahoo
Every single time I hear this man speak, I am always surprised that he is not a senator or congressman or (i wish) president of the US. Imo, he should have been the 1st black president of the US...
If all people measured exactly the same IQ the test would have no meaning. But if you measure the IQ of red bearded men in Ireland vs red bearded men in America you will find variability even in the same race. Is it significant? I don't think so. You still have to assess each and every person on their own merrit.
@@amazingjason455 well yes thats true but not really what I am commenting on. To rephrase another way, you cannot tell the IQ either by pre judging what race or group they belong to no matter the averages of the group. You can only assess each person for their particular IQ. For sure you're not going to get a PHD in physics with a low IQ but there are PHD physicists from all races.
@@BB-cf9gx Correct. I agree that we should view people as individuals who are not constrained in any way by their race. I also believe, however, that the iq bell curves for different “races” are not perfectly aligned and that these differences are significant at the population level.
@@amazingjason455 there is no significance except for racist bigots who want to stereotype groups of people by their skin color or other attribute to exclude them. As in the red beards analogy there are insignificant statistical variations amongst any cross section you can think of but cannot be considered except as merely interesting but irrelevant.
@@BB-cf9gx The problem comes when Asians or Jews are overrepresented in the most cognitively demanding fields and positions. If people don’t accept the realities of IQ, they might assume that the playing field is tilted in favor of some races and against others.
The human Genome unites us. Culture separates us. We are mostly equal at birth but society's norms (family, educators, business practices, etc.) will try to limit the development of each child. IOW Science is the open road approach, held back by humans who need to think they are in control. Hint: the most powerful society will be the one that best preserves human autonomy as part of the quest to extract the best from each individual. This requires _Distributed Systems_ and that means philosophically accurate _Democracy, Capitalism and Science:_ the three pillars of human excellence.
11:39 Sowell: "... what's the same in both places is that the intellectuals have told them the world is unjust, that other people are keeping them down ..."
To be accepted into public housing in pre-war Britain, you also had to have proven good character. It was only in the 60s and 70s when large public housing projects also became dumping grounds for the very worse parts of society.
Dr Sowell is amazing in how he so succinctly and elegantly debunks a LOT of nonsense. And when leftists want to tar all us Caucasians with the same casual racist brush. that can be dismissed in two words. Thomas Sowell. A man with whom it is very easy to admire and respect,
The industrial revolution happened in England and not Ireland because all the capitol was in England, and ruled Ireland and had no desire for it to prosper.
I LOVE Dr. Sowell. But it was a blk male You Tuber who convinced me that there is indeed a disparity between race and eye que. And he believes culture is created from the race. We call him the “ Thomas Sowell of the Streets”. He just has a keen, unclouded sense of perception and interpretation. Ak Nation.
I'm not familiar with him, but I do think Dr Sowell is a little too quick to dismiss the effect of genetics on IQ. On the other hand, I think most people are a bit too quick to dismiss the effect of culture on genetics. Good incentives matter, and the welfare state is about as bad as incentives get, as it forces the productive to subsidize the unproductive, allowing the unproductive to have more children while forcing the productive to reduce the number of children they can have. I have worked on many jobs where the best men all had one or two children at most because that was all they could afford, while some of the most useless helpers had eight or more children by several different women with the help of government assistance - paid for by the most productive members of society. One interesting point is that examples abound of convergent evolution, where similar environments have produced similar results even when starting with different stocks. History suggests that many populations could improve quite rapidly - at least, within two or three centuries - if they can maintain good incentives for that long.
@@llbean6931 - partly, but in practice there are both genetic _and_ cultural factors at play, and they can reinforce each other - whether it is in a virtuous circle creating a healthier culture and civilization with each cycle, or a vicious circle (such as what the welfare state has created) in which everything gets worse with each cycle.
One of the most distinct and actual genetic racial difference that cause an advantage is the ability to drink milk after infancy. This trait is felt the most by me.
what Menckin said is true for everyone. Based on a realistic assessment of my own skills and abilities many of my ambitions and asperations went unrealized. If you don't dispel notions of being able to do anything with accurate assessments of your abilities you end up like Jethro Boudin who aspired to be a Brain surgeon or fry cook. Where Menckin is wrong is using race as a catagory.
10:49 Q: ... that you're not merely making the view that liberals were _mistaken_ ... you're making the argument that they were _culpable._ A: Yes. ... 11:03 You can go to England and see the very same pattern emerging.
Ironic that it was an Irish monastery priest/monk they traveled around Europe building churches..and spreading early ideas of abstract thought. I can't remember his name >.< but he is a saint in the catholic church I believe
Its mind blowing that here we are in 2022 and still discussing race and people are still racist! The fact that it is still a topic and a problem is troubling but says humanity is still living mentally in the dark ages. When we cannot come to terms that ALL humans, regardless of race, gender or anything else are NOT factors we should base intellect or status in society on, then we cannot assume humanity is maturing in any way shape or form!
You miss the point that lots of politicians benefit from such racism topics. These are the really evil people who are good at instigating racism and make sure the society is never mature (per your terms).
@@theBear89451 No, racism has been decreasing the past 10 years, at least in western societies. For example, if you go back to 1950s, you are likely to be whacked when you spill out some racial stuffs u r saying right now. If you go back to 1850s, you are likely to be lynched. Please say something using ur brain, not ur hormone.
@@theBear89451 I disagree, racism is not what is increasing. Only the losers that want to claim victimhood from it that are making it sound like it is!
So let me get this straight...the same impoverished socioeconomic classes that culturally minimize abstract thinking are being introduced to abstract thinking through a victimhood len, and not from a critical thinking objective position? If a member of this tenable group then clears the hurdle of ignorance and denounces the victim mentality they are considered to stupid because of race? Progress is extremely subjective, like success and happiness. Each is defined by the individual and vary widely. Each therfore is a feeling. Feelings are real, but they are not facts. Each of these feelings are important to One's own idea of self worth and production in society. I guess anyone could be a progressive they just gobbled up the name before someone else did... obviously the progress they bring is not in balance with the foundations of US political theory.
Subjectivism is extremely subjective, not progress. Being trapped in false means you only choose false, which is no progress, which leads to justifying the stupidity of that decision as "progress is extremely subjective". The better option (the progress) is to simply reject the false.
We are lacking serious conversations that we need to have in our society… I’m now limiting social media for myself and my daughter. Guess what it’s already gotten better just in a couple weeks
Dr. Sowell must be protected at all cost.
yes absolutely right 👍
@@planecrashes633
🤔…Somewhere here must be a germ of an idea for thriller screenplay…
(😏Hey-how could it be any worse that the stuff Hollywood’s been dumping on us these past several years?…)
I got it bro chill🙋🏽♂️
YES, just like our SCOTUS Judges and Schools. I enjoy your content Mr. Sowell! Thank you.
Can you elaborate on what that means? Protected from what? All costs? Really? Seems a touch hyperbolic.
Today, June 30, Dr. Sowell turns 92! 🎉 I would love to hear his perspective on what's going on today. I'm sure he's enjoying his family. God bless.
Bruh💀
He's 92! Happy belated to Dr Sowell. I thought he was in his 70's 80's but then again he speaks like he's been around for a very long time.
Awesome. He shares my birthday. This rocks. I can celebrate both MY bday and HIS!
He's a wonderful Cancer sign.
I love listening to Dr Sowell , he teaches me something every time .
So, basically we need a Dr. for a president. K, got it🤣
He's a snake in the grass. A whole-throated, anti-white racist who calls whites Crackers and believes we STILL are responsible for black failure.
At some point in time, people might figure out the blacks cannot succeed for some other reason that white racism.
@@the2ndcoming135 stupid comment
@@the2ndcoming135 no a " Philosophy King ".. if you have study Plato's Republic...
@@dionysius1b870 thanks peasant butt🤣🤣🤣🤣
Dr. Sowell is such a brilliant man. One of the great minds of our time. He ought to be celebrated on a far larger scale than he is. Shame.
Oh my, such a mass of wisdom and knowledge in one short video! May God bless Dr Sowell and spread his books everywhere. And let us be humble enough to learn!
Thomas Sowell, not just a national icon, but a worldwide icon, a giant among men!
That quote from Sowell's book near the end of the video - talking about the intelligentsia making "excuses for moral squalor and barbaric behavior" applies even more today than even in the 1960s. Now, you have an "intelligentsia" that has institutionalized, promoted, and protected "moral squalor and barbaric behavior" among black americans nowadays. I'm younger than Sowell, having grown up in the 60s/70s, but that "moral squalor" among black americans still was not so common at all. But today that squalor and barbarism is ubiquitous and now spills out into the mainstream of american social life, creating dangers that no civilized society should endure. The middle class democrat blacks and their white liberal fellow travelers provide nutrient for this aberrant behavior by defending and protecting it supposedly in the name of fighting racism. But they in fact make it impossible even to reach, much less teach and put on a straighter life path the young men and women most directly impacted by this moral squalor and barbarism. This is tragic and shameful.
In the 60's the left started a war on Poverty but, actually put forth an polycy of driving fathers out of the lives of children creating single parent households.
“Fellow Travelers” indeed.
Communists must be destroyed.
What garbage, allleftist drivel ...
And the bad behavior does nothing to narrow the racial divide, it only widens it.
It's really good to hear someone actually talking about racism not just denying it in a very angry manner without argument.
Enjoying my Birthday today listening to Sowell ❤️🙏
Happy Birthday!
Well - Happy Birthday !!!
Thanks Dr. Sowell.
Thomas Sowell is a national treasure
This is the way to handle IQ and race, with facts and evidence. Insisting that even asking the question is racist will convince few people of much, but will convince some that somebody is afraid of a topic.
To me the whole idea of intelligence as measured by standardized tests needs to be re-examined. The sense is, some have argued, that overall intelligence involves far more than what is measured by standardized IQ tests. I don't think it can be denied that the tests can be usual...but only in a very limited way. After what I've seen of people over the past 2.5 years, particularly of people I once esteemed for their intellect, the whole idea of "intelligence" must be thoroughly reexamined. I watched smart and accomplished people accept all the crap coming out of the msm about the scam pandemic, BLM and George Floyd and Antifa, the white supremacy threat, the "safe and effective" vaccines for covid, and so on...simply swallowing whole, without the slightest question all the contradictory and inconsistent nonsense that was being pushed on them and everybody else. And even worse, I watched those same people even take up Biden's call to turn on and ostracize their own family members if they were unvaxxed...again without pausing to consider what was actually being promoted...which was the destruction of the family! Anyone who took the time to pause and examine the obvious lies, disinformation, and misinformation coming out of the msm (and still coming out) could immediately see that what the TV or the NYT were pushing was absolute propaganda garbage. By acting this way, these supposedly intelligent people are actually promoting their own demise and that of their offspring...as we're seeing everyday now. So yes, it's time to reassess the idea of "intelligence."
@@ltravail You think their intelligence should have them focus on truth. They use their intelligence to advance within the organization in spite of the truth.
Both you, and Sewell need to do more research on the topic instead of just calling it racism. There exists biological differences between all the races and one such proven difference is brain size and intelligence.
@@johnbloom1109 Hey John! I commented in appreciation of bringing facts and evidence instead of just calling the topic racism. And then you said that I and "Sewell"(sic) need to do more reasearch instead of just calling it racism.
I suggest that in the future you read comments before you respond to them.
@@barryon8706 I replied to the wrong person. Meant to reply to (sic) Honzan00n
A true national treasure
Happy Birthday, Dr. Sowell!
Thomas Sowell is such a breath of fresh air.
Thank you so much!
He so eloquently communicates clear wisdom
I totally agree with Dr. Sowell that IQ tests can be very biased towards certain cultures. Questions coming from an unknown culture can skew things.
I remembered living in KwaZulu, right in the tropics. An example about the effect of surface size in heat transfer was, "Why do you break ice in small pieces in order to cool your drink?" This was asked of students who have never seen ice or owned a freezer. The boy that I helped did not have a clue what was asked. -- Until I asked why he used small branches for kindling to start a fire. Immediately his face lit up and he gave the correct answer!
The wording of a question makes a world of difference!
Dr Sowell is a treasure.
Why could I not have this man as a Professor?? I HAVE BEEN CHEATED!!!!! 😁
I love listening to him speak. There is something in the quality of his voice that draws me in while learning. Wonder combination.
So smart...and the opposite of what our government and corporations want us to think.
Well, they’re not doctors. They’re rich criminal justice and economic fanboys🤷🏽♂️
Happy Birthday Mr. Sowell. I treasure all you taught me. Thank you. 🎂
Quite possibly the smartest man of our time. I could listen to him forever.
Happy Birthday Dr Sowell
What an enormous help this man has been to me in understanding the world in which I now live. Knowledge and data aid much in diffusing the prejudices and biases that surround us constantly. Thank you sir, I have read two of your books thus far and look forward to reading the next one!
He has given us many words to live by
Wow! This is a man who has gotten the facts and really thought about the issues; Not just drawn conclusions after a brief observation.
Finally subscribed. After weeks of reflection, I have not come up with even one good counter-argument to anything Dr. Sowell has said.
I always hear about how President Wilson was the guy who created the progressive movement in America. I know that so much information today is filling in a lot of the blanks, and things we never learned in public schools growing up. We can understand where racism grew and spread long ago that flipped completely our viewpoint of who were racists and who wasn’t. Thomas Sowell and Dinesh D’Souza are two men smashing the liberal stereotype of the left versus the right, and they are doing it wonderfully.
Thomas Sowell is the “intellectual’s intellectual!!!
It’s hard to believe more people haven’t heard of him.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, DR. SOWELL!
Happy Birthday, Sir.
Happy birthday sir!
I love Sowell's calm, reasoned manner. Not wild about that sweater. It was probably a Christmas gift.
AMEN amen amen amen amen amen
Happy birthday!
I’ve been showing Dr.Sowell to my friends and family (especially the children) for many years,should be required learning.
The last couple of minutes in particular is the perfect summation of today's society. I'm just not sure we will ever be able to move beyond this crazy time. I fear things have gone too far.
What a brain Thomas Sowell has , so much intelligence i'm surprised his head doesn't explode ! So much of what he says is like a new insight into what was before our very eyes all along , it just needed someone like Thomas to open our eyes and help us to see it .
If I haven't already commented on this, Great Clip!! thanks guys
As part of my firearms business I administer the test that must be passed before receiving a California Firearms Safety Certificate. Around 80% of the people who were born in Mexico fail the test on the first try. However, 95% of Hispanics who were born in the US pass the test on their first try. Both groups have the same racial makeup, but one group vastly out performs the other on this test. Why? Are Hispanics born north of the Rio Grand somehow smarted than their cousins born south of that river? Somehow I doubt it. I believe the reason could be that in Mexico legally owning a firearm is much harder than it is in the US, so most young people in Mexico have not been exposed as much to firearms, (and firearms safety). But, because a large percentage of the US population owns some type of firearm, most young Hispanics born in America were taught by dad, or uncle Joe, about the basics of gun safety at a young age.
Natural selection is happening all the time. The hispanic born in USA are of the kids of the best hispanic that moved to states for better life. the were best of best and its same for all immmigrant community .
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@@siwach6394; what makes you think the Hispanics who come to the US are the "best" Hispanics? Do you claim people who decide to stay in Mexico, or any other Latin American country, are "stupid"? If that was true, then the Hispanics who come to America are the smarter ones, right, Then how does that explain why those "smarter" Hispanics have trouble with the test, but their kids and grand-kids don't? Like a boat with a large whole in it, your logic doesn't hold water.
I think iq tests are less culturally biased than knowing the local laws and regulations of a firearms test.
@@amazingjason455; and what do you base your learned option on? Something some Left Wing Liberal Professor might have told you? Or have you done a real study on the subject complete with evaluating hundreds of volunteers and three different test the State issues? In fact, have you ever even seen the California Firearms Safety test, much less ever taken it? NO, you haven't! Because if you had, you would know how stupid your comment really is. By the way, of the 30 questions on the test, only 2 pertain to State law, (the other 28 questions are on gun SAFETY, NOT the law), and you can miss 7 questions and still pass. But then, you didn't know that, did you.
I'm not prejudiced against any type of person I hate everybody equally until they show me a reason not to. I'm just joking around I have respect for every body until they show me differently.
My wife my Fetus😂
Where else can you find such intelligent conversation as one with Thomas Sowell?
Good discussion. It ended pretty much on the crux of the matter. Would have liked to see more. Time to buy some books ...
What a legend!! Great Insight, it looks so obvious now that he has mentioned it.
Excellent
Thank you Dr Sowell. I wish you could help me to save water leaks in public networks.
Sowell's books must become required reading both in highschool and college
According to a recent report, blaming outside forces (e.g. unjust discrimination) for your circumstances even causes loss of teeth.
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IQ between groups of people, separated by 1000s of miles, evolving for 1000s of years, in radically different environments, being exactly equal is an impossible and naive belief.
Agreed. Although Dr Sowell makes good points about the way that culture can affect IQ, I think he dismisses the genetic side of things a little too quickly.
His points about how various groups used to have the highest level of civilization only to be supplanted by others are worth noting, but I think he too quickly discards any genetic component because he - like the vast majority of people - does not give natural selection enough credit for acting rapidly. In fact, we have fairly solid evidence for very rapid evolution among humans in the last 10,000 years, and really advantageous genes can sweep through populations in just two or three centuries to become almost ubiquitous where they were formerly absent.
When you combine this swift shift in genes with cultural innovations you will sometimes get very big changes in a short time. As just one example, circa 1500 my Scottish ancestors were widely (and probably correctly) considered half-savage, and by the late 1700s the Scottish enlightenment and Scottish engineering had changed the world for the better in rather big ways, both in politics and in material culture. Although seldom so quick and dramatic, similar shifts appear to have happened in multiple populations and there is no reason to believe that it won't happen again.
My chief objection to progressive views on race is that they completely misunderstood the mechanisms by which intelligence and other useful traits were selected for, and many of their interventions - especially the interventions made in the 1960s - made things worse. Especially the welfare state - which takes from those who are productive and by depriving them of their wealth makes it more difficult for them to raise children, while giving to those who are non-productive thereby making it easier for them to have more children - is essentially a subsidy of negative traits accompanied by punishment of positive traits - and in just a few generations can wreak havoc on a civilization.
By contrast, good incentives can improve a civilization considerably within a few centuries - though it may be that positive change takes a bit longer than negative change. The other great thing about a system of good incentives is that they work fairly well regardless of what the original stock is. Convergent evolution among multiple species has demonstrated to us that similar incentives tend to produce similar results regardless of original stock - which should be regarded as good news for anyone embracing true meritocracy. In this sense Dr Sowell is correct to emphasize culture, as the culture itself can improve the genetics - or make them worse. But no doubt that genetics do play an important role as well.
I did really well counting those blocks and spatial perception sections of the ASVAB test.
The decline in every aspect started with the break up of the black family, the denigration of black fathers. No father; no leadership for the children to maintain proper behavior and self-worth. Plus, those fathers became burdens on society rather than leaders in their homes. Remove the cornerstone of the black society and it all eventually comes tumbling down.
Fascinating
happy B-day Mr. Sowell. your work has been wonderful and under taught in a monumental way.
If you can convince somebody that their lack of success is somebody else' fault, then you deprive them of all agency. When success or failure is not the result of your own actions, then to take action at all is a waste of time.
Pretty evil, when you think about it.
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I just had a thought: isn't this what the Democrat Party does to every "minority" group?
Then blames all their woes on white men?
These early progressives would defend themselves by saying "I'm just following the science".
LOL...Wonderfully said! And on point! The eugenicists absolutely believed that their program was fully grounded in science.
Didn’t factor the whole biracial angle into the equation huh?😏
Sowell is a giant
FA Hayek wrote in Road to Serfdom “you have to know what can go right, before you can know what will go wrong”. Sowell takes this to socioeconomics when he says “Don’t look at who did what wrong, look at who did it right”. This will give more conclusive answers and evidence.
1Q tests are different than SAT scores.
Touchy subject "IQ & RACE!" Even the brillient Sowell was struggleing. IQ testing is nothing more than a tool to determine what ones apptitudes are and whether one is qualified for certain tasks. Due to the man shortage during the Viet Nam War the military IQ Standard was lowered. We were called McNamaras Morons as many of the draftees should never have been inducted. With idustrialization manual labor which fitted the market for lower IQs became scares, so society has a pool of unproductive members. Professor Jorden did an exallent video just on IQ.
IQ differences largely have to do with birth rates, parentage, nutrition, healthcare and exposure to educational training over generations.
@@theisheep2676 It tests one area of cognitive ability. That evening said some people are naturally more intelligent than others but I don't believe race has anything to do with it.'
@@theisheep2676 Hard to say. National testing shows Asians with high IQs, then Caucasians, Latin Ameicans then African Americans. Maybe it has to do with enviormental conditions where a harsher climate produces a more industrias people in order too survive.
@@markwarnberg9504 No it doesn’t. Also your completely forgetting west Asians and south Asians.
There are no races within the human species. And nobody can evolve a certain threshold of intelligence. There’s a bell curve for a reason and you can find smart a d dumb people in all population groups. Only difference is the average cos of numerous factors. Iq has a level of inheritance but it takes a couple generations of high socioeconomic living standards to increase the IQ
@@theisheep2676 Yes we are ALL of the Human Race! it is within that group there are differances and differences with in those sub groups. The Bell Curve is to find the average. Prof. Jorden Peterson has some good videos on IQ.
If we had more Educators like Dr. Thomas Sowell. Parents wouldn’t have to worry about someone Transgenderlysing and Indoctrinating our Children. All day long Yahoo
Sounds like get out !
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Every single time I hear this man speak, I am always surprised that he is not a senator or congressman or (i wish) president of the US. Imo, he should have been the 1st black president of the US...
The last 2 minutes summarize the thesis in a very profound way.
If all people measured exactly the same IQ the test would have no meaning. But if you measure the IQ of red bearded men in Ireland vs red bearded men in America you will find variability even in the same race. Is it significant? I don't think so. You still have to assess each and every person on their own merrit.
It is significant if the scores correlate with levels of success.
@@amazingjason455 well yes thats true but not really what I am commenting on. To rephrase another way, you cannot tell the IQ either by pre judging what race or group they belong to no matter the averages of the group. You can only assess each person for their particular IQ. For sure you're not going to get a PHD in physics with a low IQ but there are PHD physicists from all races.
@@BB-cf9gx Correct. I agree that we should view people as individuals who are not constrained in any way by their race. I also believe, however, that the iq bell curves for different “races” are not perfectly aligned and that these differences are significant at the population level.
@@amazingjason455 there is no significance except for racist bigots who want to stereotype groups of people by their skin color or other attribute to exclude them. As in the red beards analogy there are insignificant statistical variations amongst any cross section you can think of but cannot be considered except as merely interesting but irrelevant.
@@BB-cf9gx The problem comes when Asians or Jews are overrepresented in the most cognitively demanding fields and positions. If people don’t accept the realities of IQ, they might assume that the playing field is tilted in favor of some races and against others.
The human Genome unites us. Culture separates us. We are mostly equal at birth but society's norms (family, educators, business practices, etc.) will try to limit the development of each child. IOW Science is the open road approach, held back by humans who need to think they are in control. Hint: the most powerful society will be the one that best preserves human autonomy as part of the quest to extract the best from each individual. This requires _Distributed Systems_ and that means philosophically accurate _Democracy, Capitalism and Science:_ the three pillars of human excellence.
This guy, the one who, in virtually all situations, is the smartest one in the room; is a black man who doesn't think he's a victim.
yes because all black men view themselves as victims
They weren't bad or malevolent I have to disagree Wilson was evil to the core of his being.
So why did the English think in such an abstract way?
GBS was a monster! He was indeed malevolent !
10:20 From the book: "[T]he intelligentsia ... became more prone ... to make excuses ... for moral squalor and barbaric behavior."
11:39 Sowell: "... what's the same in both places is that the intellectuals have told them the world is unjust, that other people are keeping them down ..."
the 60 were irrational, LOL the 2020 are making them look rational.
To be accepted into public housing in pre-war Britain, you also had to have proven good character. It was only in the 60s and 70s when large public housing projects also became dumping grounds for the very worse parts of society.
Dr Sowell is amazing in how he so succinctly and elegantly debunks a LOT of nonsense. And when leftists want to tar all us Caucasians with the same casual racist brush. that can be dismissed in two words. Thomas Sowell.
A man with whom it is very easy to admire and respect,
The industrial revolution happened in England and not Ireland because all the capitol was in England, and ruled Ireland and had no desire for it to prosper.
I LOVE Dr. Sowell. But it was a blk male You Tuber who convinced me that there is indeed a disparity between race and eye que. And he believes culture is created from the race. We call him the “ Thomas Sowell of the Streets”. He just has a keen, unclouded sense of perception and interpretation. Ak Nation.
I'm not familiar with him, but I do think Dr Sowell is a little too quick to dismiss the effect of genetics on IQ. On the other hand, I think most people are a bit too quick to dismiss the effect of culture on genetics. Good incentives matter, and the welfare state is about as bad as incentives get, as it forces the productive to subsidize the unproductive, allowing the unproductive to have more children while forcing the productive to reduce the number of children they can have. I have worked on many jobs where the best men all had one or two children at most because that was all they could afford, while some of the most useless helpers had eight or more children by several different women with the help of government assistance - paid for by the most productive members of society.
One interesting point is that examples abound of convergent evolution, where similar environments have produced similar results even when starting with different stocks. History suggests that many populations could improve quite rapidly - at least, within two or three centuries - if they can maintain good incentives for that long.
@@alanlight7740 culture comes from people and their genetics though.
@@llbean6931 - partly, but in practice there are both genetic _and_ cultural factors at play, and they can reinforce each other - whether it is in a virtuous circle creating a healthier culture and civilization with each cycle, or a vicious circle (such as what the welfare state has created) in which everything gets worse with each cycle.
One of the most distinct and actual genetic racial difference that cause an advantage is the ability to drink milk after infancy. This trait is felt the most by me.
That classes of people have material differences is Race, not racIsm.
what Menckin said is true for everyone. Based on a realistic assessment of my own skills and abilities many of my ambitions and asperations went unrealized. If you don't dispel notions of being able to do anything with accurate assessments of your abilities you end up like Jethro Boudin who aspired to be a Brain surgeon or fry cook. Where Menckin is wrong is using race as a catagory.
They never said the statement was wrong apart from the race factor.
*IQ:* is, One thing.
*RaceTheory:* Another..
He is describing the Chicanos
10:49 Q: ... that you're not merely making the view that liberals were _mistaken_ ... you're making the argument that they were _culpable._
A: Yes. ... 11:03 You can go to England and see the very same pattern emerging.
Ironic that it was an Irish monastery priest/monk they traveled around Europe building churches..and spreading early ideas of abstract thought. I can't remember his name >.< but he is a saint in the catholic church I believe
Look up his story. It is very interesting
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I can comfirm that what he says about lower working class white kids in English schools is 100% correct. The lack of ambition is so sad.
10.55 True.
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Everything. The devil does everything backwards so do his followers backwards, wrong.
One correction: Woodrow Wilson was bad.
Its mind blowing that here we are in 2022 and still discussing race and people are still racist! The fact that it is still a topic and a problem is troubling but says humanity is still living mentally in the dark ages. When we cannot come to terms that ALL humans, regardless of race, gender or anything else are NOT factors we should base intellect or status in society on, then we cannot assume humanity is maturing in any way shape or form!
You miss the point that lots of politicians benefit from such racism topics. These are the really evil people who are good at instigating racism and make sure the society is never mature (per your terms).
I'm afraid that one facts about the human population we'll never get past is that some of us are idiots.
No just still a problem. Racism has been increasing the past 10 years.
@@theBear89451 No, racism has been decreasing the past 10 years, at least in western societies. For example, if you go back to 1950s, you are likely to be whacked when you spill out some racial stuffs u r saying right now. If you go back to 1850s, you are likely to be lynched. Please say something using ur brain, not ur hormone.
@@theBear89451 I disagree, racism is not what is increasing. Only the losers that want to claim victimhood from it that are making it sound like it is!
So let me get this straight...the same impoverished socioeconomic classes that culturally minimize abstract thinking are being introduced to abstract thinking through a victimhood len, and not from a critical thinking objective position? If a member of this tenable group then clears the hurdle of ignorance and denounces the victim mentality they are considered to stupid because of race?
Progress is extremely subjective, like success and happiness. Each is defined by the individual and vary widely. Each therfore is a feeling. Feelings are real, but they are not facts. Each of these feelings are important to One's own idea of self worth and production in society. I guess anyone could be a progressive they just gobbled up the name before someone else did... obviously the progress they bring is not in balance with the foundations of US political theory.
Subjectivism is extremely subjective, not progress. Being trapped in false means you only choose false, which is no progress, which leads to justifying the stupidity of that decision as "progress is extremely subjective". The better option (the progress) is to simply reject the false.
We are lacking serious conversations that we need to have in our society… I’m now limiting social media for myself and my daughter. Guess what it’s already gotten better just in a couple weeks
I have listened to him a lot, but much of what he says I can't relate to it.