[WIRE] Economist and bestselling author Dr. Thomas Sowell said that relying on the government to enforce so-called "social justice" would only lead to a loss of freedom in an interview with Daily Wire Editor Emeritus Ben Shapiro.
In an interview posted to YouTube, Sowell joined Shapiro to talk about his new book, "Social Justice Fallacies," and the dangers of the ideology that has been widely embraced across college campuses, large corporations, and by Democrat politicians.
When asked what the greatest dangers of social justice ideologies were, Sowell pointed to the belief held by many on the Left that the government should be used to make everything equal.
"When you simply give more and more power to the government on the illusion that they can [make everything equal], all that you’re doing is setting yourself for more and more of your freedom to be taken away by other people," he said.
Shapiro and Sowell also discussed the social justice fallacy of assuming that disparity was caused by discrimination. Sowell pointed to the representation of black players in professional basketball and white tennis players as examples of disparities that were not caused by anything malicious.
The two also discussed what the future would look like and how to fight back against the spread of social justice ideology, especially among young people.
Shapiro pointed to polling showing that young generations had embraced the social justice mindset, saying that "it’s hard to be optimistic in the face of a lot of the polling statistics that are showing that younger Americans believe an enormous number of these fallacies."
Sowell responded by saying that educational resources not steeped in leftist ideology needed to be made available to young people.
[Red State] We've covered the new series of ads from the U.S. Army looking to try to get more people to join up.
Suddenly, they're not showing ads about people having two moms or catering to the woke. Instead, they're showing what I would call a classic military "Be all you can be" ad, emphasizing jumping out of a plane and achievement, rather than what people's sexuality might be.
As my colleague Brandon Morse wrote:
By 2022, the Army's recruitment numbers had indeed plummeted. Their attempts to recruit with virtue signaling resulted in very few people signing up, and not just from the pool they were looking to siphon from, but the average middle-American male stopped coming too.
Some also wondered if this might be a sign that the military-industrial complex was trying to ramp up again, with the Biden administration looking like it might like to involve us in more wars. But they're desperate to try to get more people to sign up.
Now they're even implicitly acknowledging -- at least on some level -- how wrong they were to boot people out for refusing to take the COVID-19 vaccine. A letter that they're sending out to people is circulating on social media.
Another indicator the US Army is in panic mode on the personnel front. A mass letter has gone out to soldiers who were involuntarily separated from the service over COVID vaccine refusal. The Army is now offering to correct service records with an eye towards encouraging people... pic.twitter.com/IRztZAYdUx
Task and Purpose has confirmed with the Army that the letter is real.
"As a result of the rescission of all current COVID-19 vaccination requirements, former soldiers who were involuntarily separated for their refusal to receive the COVID-19 vaccination may request a correction of their military records," according to a letter signed by Brig. Gen. Hope Rampy, Army Director of Personnel Management.
It also instructs soldiers looking to return to service to contact an Army, Army Reserve, or National Guard recruiter. It was not immediately clear to an Army spokesperson if soldiers who rejoin would return to their former unit or MOS.
So part of it is the rescission of the requirement. But the other part is how desperate they are. Task and Purpose says the Army missed its recruitment goals by about 15,000 people. They must be hard up to hire new people who can put out such letters without typos too, as they made a mistake on the spelling of "Military" in the signature block, as my colleague Streiff picked up.
They booted 1,903 people over not getting the vaccine, and now have sent out 1,900 letters to try to get people back. But even if they got all those people back, they still would be far below their goals. And why should people who were separated trust that it might not happen again? This is an admission that the decision was political.
Rep. Ben Cline (R-VA) called for them to be reinstated at rank and with back pay.
But while the Defense Department had suggested people who were separated might get back pay, they walked it back in January. So, I'm not sure how many people would go back at this point.
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Understand anyone with a star is a politician in the bureaucracy. They need to be purged. We have more general officers today than we had in WW2 with full mobilization. Managers not leaders. Careerist who work the system.
[Gateway] Biden’s pompous jet-setting ’climate envoy’ John Kerry spoke at the 2023APEC summit.
Elon Musk was bumped as a keynote speaker at this year’s APEC summit at the last minute and was replaced by John Kerry.
John Kerry, the yachting, private jet-setting cosmopolitan elitist thinks he’s a farming expert. He hates farmers.
Earlier this year, John Kerry targeted family farms. Kerry said farms produce too much greenhouse gases. He wants that to stop in order to combat the climate "crisis."
Farms also happen to produce food. Kerry is not worried about that. The global elites are not worried about that. "We don't need farms. Our house manager gets food at the store for Lovey and I"
"A lot of people have no clue that agriculture contributes about 33% of all the emissions of the world," Kerry said earlier this year during his keynote address. "We can’t get to net-zero, we don’t get this job done unless agriculture is front and center as part of the solution. So all of us understand here the depths of this mission."
"Food systems themselves contribute a significant amount of emissions just in the way in which we do the things we’ve been doing," he continued. "With a growing population on the planet — we just crossed the threshold of 8 billion fellow citizens around the world — emissions from the food system alone are projected to cause another half a degree of warming by mid-century."
Kerry continued his war on farmers this week at the APEC summit and complained that many farmers use highly effective tile drainage to improve their yields.
[IMETATRONINK] The Eisenhower CSG is indicated by the bright green number 5 on the map.
Map with various naval group deployments can be seen at the link, including a number that are not American.
I am very dubious it has ventured into those dangerous waters.
Many believe the strike group will transit the straits, and take a cruise in the Persian Gulf.
I do not believe that will happen.
It would be, in my opinion, an extraordinary blunder of hubris.
That said, it will be a sure indicator of US intent towards Iran.
If the Eisenhower enters the Persian Gulf, it means the US aims to put it in optimal position to strike Iran — or at least to raise the stakes of its bluff to a level that it will very likely be called. Obama: "Don't call my bluff"
In other words, if the USS Eisenhower and its escorts enter the Persian Gulf, it will almost certainly compel an engagement with Iranian forces — likely ignited by an Iranian shoot-down of US ISR assets.
If, on the other hand, the Eisenhower remains sailing in the relatively safe deep blue waters of the broad portion of the Gulf of Oman and the Arabian Sea, then you can be sure the US actually has no desire to escalate to war with Iran.
That would be, in my estimation, a very wise course of action.
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/\ In other words, if the USS Eisenhower and its escorts enter the Persian Gulf, it will almost certainly compel an engagement with Iranian forces — likely ignited by an Iranian shoot-down of US ISR assets.
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No military advantage. The transit is tight with more small boat traffic than you can imagine. Why walk into a trap? They can mine the straights behind you.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
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