Posted on 10/05/2015 2:20:41 PM PDT by jazusamo
One of the many painful signs of the mindlessness of our times was a recent section of the Wall Street Journal, built around the theme "What's Holding Women Back in the Workplace?"
Whenever some group is not equally represented in some institution or activity, the automatic response in some quarters is to assume that someone has prevented equality of outcomes.
This preconception of equal outcomes requires not one speck of evidence, and defies mountains of evidence to the contrary. Even in activities where individual performances are what determine outcomes, and those performances are easily measured objectively, there is seldom anything resembling equal representation.
For 12 consecutive years — from 2001 through 2012 — each home run leader in the American League had a Hispanic surname. When two American boys whose ancestors came from India tied for first place in the U.S. National Spelling Bee in 2014, it was the 7th consecutive year in which the U.S. National Spelling Bee was won by an Asian Indian.
We all know about the large over-representation of blacks among professional basketball players, and especially among the star players. The best-selling brands of beer in America were created by people of German ancestry, who also created China's famed Tsingtao beer. Of the 100 top-ranked Marathon runners in the world in 2012, 68 were Kenyans. The list could go on and on. Although blacks are over-represented among professional football players, even the most avid National Football League fan is unlikely to be able to recall seeing even one black player who kicked a punt or a point after touchdown.
Should there be an article titled: "What's Holding Black Kickers Back in the NFL?" Could it be that blacks are more interested in playing positions where there is more action and — not incidentally — more money?
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Oh the Irony of this article coming from a Chamber of Amnesty sell out.
The natural disposition is always to believe. It is acquired wisdom and experience only that teach incredulity, and they very seldom teach it enough. The wisest and most cautious of us all frequently gives credit to stories which he himself is afterwards both ashamed and astonished that he could possibly think of believing. - Adam Smith, Theory of Moral Sentiments (1759)
“The republican principle demands that the deliberate sense of the community should govern the conduct of those to whom they intrust the management of their affairs; but it does not require an unqualified complaisance to every sudden breeze of passion or to every transient impulse which the people may receive from the arts of men, who flatter their prejudices to betray their interests.” ― Alexander Hamilton
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Your keywords are childish, Edd.
I loved this!
On to Part II!
Not buying your personal assertion that stumping for amnesty was no betrayal.
It doesn’t matter if you continue to whine that defense of our borders is “childish.”
That won’t embarrass me, it will just make me mock you.
Sowell doesn’t get a pass, and no matter how okay you personally are with making the US into north Mexico or west Somalia, I opposes that.
It’s not okay if he did it because he has always favored open immigration.
It doesn’t become okay if he was blackmailed.
It doesn’t become okay if he was given a whole bunch of money.
A nation without borders is not a nation.
Perhaps he has joined “the anointed.”
Alas, that is probably a majority of Americans these days. As long as the government writes them a check, way too many Americans are willing to accept this crap.
Yep, the ones that feel entitled will always be there looking for a handout if the government will dole it out.
Just exactly where are the 4'3" Asian women in pro sports? It's institutionalized racism! Black privilege! Short Asian women's lives matter!
That was then.
And I agreed.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3336954/posts
This is now.
Trump isn’t my guy.
But his numbers aren’t based on emotions.
They are based on a perception that he will enforce the borders.
This has become (on the Republican side) a race primarily about the flood of illegals. Many of whom are islamists.
No sale on your weak deflection.
So because he’s come out against Trump that now makes what he’s stated about illegal aliens in the past all null and void. I’m not buying that even though I believe what Trump is saying needs to be said.
I’m for Ted Cruz and Sowell doesn’t support him either but that doesn’t make Sowell for open borders and amnesty.
I didn’t agree with Sowell on his columns about Cruz or Trump but to say he’s for amnesty for the illegal aliens here now is crap.
No deflection here but you’re really reaching associating illegals and Islamists being supported by Thomas Sowell.
Next thing you know, I guess anybody who doesn't praise Dear Leader Trump enough will be labeled as a GOPe RINO hack sell-out commie Uniparty agent.
Yep, I guess it’s all about purity. barf
Great read! Thomas Sowell nails it. As usual.
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