Social Justice Fallacies by Thomas Sowell, Chapter One: Equal Chances Fallacies

My first Substack video!

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

Thanks for watching.

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

This fallacy, the "equal chances fallacy", looks at how incredibly diverse our world and humanity is, and how those diverse backgrounds create diverse inputs which guarantee diverse outputs. The very idea that equity or equal outcomes is expected much less desirable is put to the empirical test.

In the first chapter alone there are 149 references to evidence and ideas presented which is typical of his style. Dr. Sowell has a question, and provides mountains of evidence to support his conclusions and help the reader understand the 'why?'.

"The seemingly invincible fallacy that only human bias can explain different economic and social outcomes among peoples is belied repeatedly by hard facts in societies around the world. Whatever the condition of human beings at the beginning of the species, scores of millennia had already come and gone before anyone coined the phrase 'social justice'"

Here’s the YouTube link for those that prefer it.