An Unofficial Thomas Sowell Fan Page

Affirmative action around the world, by T. Sowell.
He argues that everyone loves in in principle, but no one measures the results which he says ALWAYS make things worse.
It was nice to hear a calm discussion about affirmative actions. He presented a nice case, and I suspect that there might have been some serious shouting if there was anyone questioning his conclusions.
And the polite interviewer was not so bold as to show the man where he was simply wrong in his conclusions.
Because in fact the results WERE measured, and Sowell was measuring them and he chose what he wanted to measure: game, set, match.
And yet, it IS something that should be discussed, and there should NOT be name calling and shouting, nor should their be dispassionate disregard for the repressed, inadvertent or deliberate.
We have concluded that separate is perforce not equal, and in that we may be very very wrong. Unless one insists on giving all the Amish a TV and a mini van.