The Review
Counterattacking the Agenda of Social-justice Advocates
Social Justice Fallacies, by Thomas Sowell, New York: Basic Books, 2023, 210 pages, hardcover.
You know you’re in a cerebral encounter when, right in the first sentence, French philosopher Rousseau throws a notional airball with his social-justice vision of equality, with everybody having equal chances, leading presumably to equal outcomes.
Then almost immediately, in two swift paragraphs, there’s a dunk on the other end with a sports allusion that leaves Jean-Jacques with his posterized mouth agape. The shrewder author has driven to the goal with real facts, slamming claims that racism is universally to blame for group-performance disparities — by vividly pointing out that blacks are very overrepresented in professional basketball, whites in professional tennis, and Hispanics in Major League Baseball.
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