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[–] AntifaSuperWombat@hexbear.net 20 points 2 days ago (1 children)

This guy's Wikipedia article is quite the trip. He went from being a Marxist in his 20s to becoming a full-blown chud in his 30s because he supposedly found out that minimum wage is bad for sugar-industry workers in Puerto Rico, because it leads to higher unemployment.

He goes further to argue that minimum wages disproportionately affect "members of racial or ethnic minority groups" that have been discriminated against. He asserts, "Before federal minimum-wage laws were instituted in the 1930s, the black unemployment rate was slightly lower than the white unemployment rate in 1930. But then followed the Davis-Bacon Act of 1931, the National Industrial Recovery Act (NIRA) of 1933, and the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) of 1938 – all of which imposed government-mandated minimum wages, either on a particular sector or more broadly... By 1954, black unemployment rates were double those of whites and have continued to be at that level or higher. Those particularly hard hit by the resulting unemployment have been black teenaged males."

Sowell has been a prominent critic of government and civil rights policy approaches on race, and has argued that systemic racism is an untested, questionable hypothesis, writing, "I don't think even the people who use it have any clear idea what they're saying", and compared it to propaganda tactics used by Joseph Goebbels because if it is "repeated long enough and loud enough", people "cave in" to it.

So which one is it? madeline-deadpan

[–] Keld@hexbear.net 19 points 2 days ago (2 children)

This guy's Wikipedia article is quite the trip. He went from being a Marxist in his 20s

The only source for him being a marxist is that he says he used to be a marxist iirc. I think he is genuinely just lying about it.

[–] DragonBallZinn@hexbear.net 12 points 2 days ago

I highly doubt it. If he was he’d actually have the upmost patience for people to the left of him, but all he does is masturbate over how he knows everything because chuds are automatically correct about everything because chuds are just that awesome.

Fart-sniffing condescension is fine when the so-called “real elites” are doing it.

[–] AntifaSuperWombat@hexbear.net 4 points 2 days ago

He did write about Marxism as a student, that much is true. The question is if he was just doing it out of academic reasons or if he was actually convinced by those ideas