Social Justice Fallacies by Thomas Sowell, Chapter Two: Racial Fallacies

A review of all four fallacies, one by one

I’ve been playing around with video discussions and will be publishing my videos here and on YouTube. I’ve got some editing and sound stuff down pretty well, and look forward to finishing this series and doing some more.

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In this video, I talk about the second of Dr. Sowell’s fallacies in his new book, Social Justice Fallacies.

This discussion on fallacies explores the fallacies of racial differences because of race (genetic determinism) and because of racism. Interestingly, popular narratives have pivoted off of only one determining factor to the other, as progressives have embraced univariate explanations for differences amongst groups.

The main lesson I pulled out of this chapter was that confirmation bias is dangerous to Reason, and it takes very little effort to pull apart theories that use only one factor to explain such complex situations.