Thomas Sowell vs. Critical Race Theory

‘Intellectuals give people who have the handicap of poverty the further handicap of a sense of victimhood,” wrote Thomas Sowell, who himself grew up in poverty and was orphaned in early childhood. Continuing the thought in Intellectuals and Society (2010), he reflected on the damage done by our supposedly smartest thinkers:

At 91 Sowell doesn’t participate in every cultural dustup that breaks into the news, but his books and other writings are a standing riposte to many zombie ideas that just won’t die. In particular much of his work is a kind of pre-buttal to the various forms of racial special pleading that have come to be collected in the public consciousness under the sobriquet of critical race theory.

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‘Intellectuals give people who have the handicap of poverty the further handicap of a sense of victimhood,” wrote Thomas Sowell, who himself grew up in poverty and was orphaned in early childhood. Continuing the thought in Intellectuals and Society (2010), he reflected on the damage done by our supposedly smartest thinkers:

At 91 Sowell doesn’t participate in every cultural dustup that breaks into the news, but his books and other writings are a standing riposte to many zombie ideas that just won’t die. In particular much of his work is a kind of pre-buttal to the various forms of racial special pleading that have come to be collected in the public consciousness under the sobriquet of critical race theory.