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WUT and LOL: Nikole Hanna-Jones asks about Thomas Sowell’s expertise in slavery and history.
Twitchy ^ | 11 Feb 2023 | ArtistAngle

Posted on 02/12/2023 3:53:46 AM PST by Rummyfan

Nikole Hanna-Jones, author of The 1619 Project is pretty well-known to Twitchy readers for saying really stupid stuff and today is no different.

She initially tried to dunk on FOX News for writing about a different silly tweet, but that is not the stupid part! The stupid comes in when a user suggested she read Thomas Sowell and she then made one of the most ignorant tweets Twitter has ever seen tweeted.

That is the initial tweet.

SAM MYERS

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Read Thomas Sowell’s essay The Real History of Slavery. I think you’ll find it interesting.

Then the user kindly made a reading suggestion to Hannah-Jones.

Ida Bae Wells

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Other than being Black, what exactly is Sowell's expertise in slavery or history?

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1 posted on 02/12/2023 3:53:46 AM PST by Rummyfan
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To: Rummyfan

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2 posted on 02/12/2023 4:01:22 AM PST by sauropod (“If they don’t believe our lies, well, that’s just conspiracy theorist stuff, there.”)
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To: Rummyfan

“ Other than being Black, what exactly is Sowell’s expertise in slavery or history?”

What’s funny is normally she’d say that’s enough to be an expert.


3 posted on 02/12/2023 4:18:13 AM PST by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: Rummyfan
Speaking of Sowell, a highly recommended read...

Black Rednecks and White Liberals, by Thomas Sowell.

4 posted on 02/12/2023 4:22:53 AM PST by mewzilla (We will never restore the republic if we don't first secure the ballot box.)
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Wonder if Ms. Hanna-Jones has ever read anything Sowell has written...?

Someone should get her on the record.


5 posted on 02/12/2023 4:24:45 AM PST by mewzilla (We will never restore the republic if we don't first secure the ballot box.)
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Wonder if Ms. Hanna-Jones has ever read anything Sowell has written...?

I wonder whether she's ever read anything at all, outside comic books and "Karl Marx for Dummies". Maybe the instruction for her hair dye?

6 posted on 02/12/2023 4:34:43 AM PST by Chad C. Mulligan (eleutheromaniac)
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To: mewzilla

Just finished Discrimination & Disparities. Finished Black Rednecks a couple weeks ago & mailed to another Freeper. Going to start Vision of the Anointed when done with my current book.

Liberals will write & publish things that they “feel,” but God help us when people like Dr. John Lott or Dr. Sowell write and source a book like they do.


7 posted on 02/12/2023 4:37:58 AM PST by Mean Daddy (Every time Hillary lies, a demon gets its wings. - Windflier)
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To: mewzilla

Ditto for Ida Bae Wells...


8 posted on 02/12/2023 4:38:07 AM PST by mewzilla (We will never restore the republic if we don't first secure the ballot box.)
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To: Mean Daddy
His book, Basic Economics is the best book I have ever read on the subject.
9 posted on 02/12/2023 4:39:19 AM PST by mewzilla (We will never restore the republic if we don't first secure the ballot box.)
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To: Rummyfan

From her wiki page, she has a black father and white mother, and attended nearly all-white schools growing up.

I suspect that she was academically inferior to her average white classmate, and this may account for her anger and bitterness towards whites.

In this, she resembles Obama.


10 posted on 02/12/2023 4:43:57 AM PST by SauronOfMordor (The rot of all principle begins with a single compromise.)
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To: Mean Daddy

Vision is a great book. It is over 25 years old now, and still extremely relevant and applicable.


11 posted on 02/12/2023 5:09:33 AM PST by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: ifinnegan

What’s also funny is that as a “historian” of U.S. racial relationships, she doesn’t know the answer. Keep in mind why Afrcian-American studies departments exist: this way, “establishment” academics, despite their nearly universally Marxist ideology, had no say in the correctness or even reasonability of theses. Her very discipline exists because it cannot withstand even the most sympathetic demand for accuracy.


12 posted on 02/12/2023 5:15:06 AM PST by dangus
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To: Rummyfan

Drugstore owner...We need to demean our customers. How can we do that and add some expenses and overhead because things are going so well for us? /obvious sarc.


13 posted on 02/12/2023 5:18:47 AM PST by xp38
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To: Mean Daddy

I have read “Vision of the Anointed”, and highly recommend it.
Haven’t read any of the other ones, yet.


14 posted on 02/12/2023 5:20:05 AM PST by telescope115 (My feet are on the ground, and my head is in the stars.)
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To: ifinnegan

reminds me of something hilarious but tragic I encountered: a PRINCIPLE at a HIGH SCHOOL who got her doctorate degree at the University of Pittsburgh with a paper on how white and Asian teachers don’t know how incompetent their race makes them (based on seven interviews). She was so stupid that I kid you not: she wondered why people on campus wore “pit” and “up it” sweatshirts. (Pitt and U Pitt)


15 posted on 02/12/2023 5:21:11 AM PST by dangus
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That also tells you something about the “scholars” who awarded her the doctorate, doesn’t it…


16 posted on 02/12/2023 5:35:38 AM PST by telescope115 (My feet are on the ground, and my head is in the stars.)
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To: telescope115

I very highly recommend Sowell’s “Knowledge and Decisions”, which covers how real people have to make decisions without having a totality of facts, and how stereotypes arise.

Also “A Conflict of Visions”, which preceded “Vision of the Annointed”.


17 posted on 02/12/2023 5:46:08 AM PST by SauronOfMordor (The rot of all principle begins with a single compromise.)
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To: mewzilla

Silly, she can’t read...

CC


18 posted on 02/12/2023 5:51:14 AM PST by Celtic Conservative (My cats are more amusing than 200 channels worth of TV.)
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To: SauronOfMordor

This might help give a little insight into her. It’s a little over an hour long. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eYdhm6XfTVQ


19 posted on 02/12/2023 5:51:47 AM PST by EvilCapitalist (81 million votes my ass.)
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To: mewzilla

Agreed. Finished that one about a year ago. Should be taught in every school.


20 posted on 02/12/2023 7:50:06 AM PST by Mean Daddy (Every time Hillary lies, a demon gets its wings. - Windflier)
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