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Thomas Sowell is revealed as a liar and a fraud in Manning Marable's book How Capitalism Underdeveloped Black America: Problems in Race, Political Economy, and Society. Sowell lies about being a leftist in tweets and articles as a nationally syndicated columnist. The appenix of Marable's book lists him as always having been right wing.

Sowell is in my local newspaper every week. He is there to Trump supporters that there is no racism left. Only the local white people like his columns.

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Like John Stossel, Glenn Beck, Greg Gutfeld, and most of Fox Business, Thomas Sowell is a Libertarian who teaches conservatives to hate gubmint instead of the ruling class.

To be honest wikipedia has become a mess beneath the surface. They're trying to delete the article on racial IQ because racists keep going there and editing the page and they're sick of the eternal back and forth. It takes 30 minutes to refute 10 minutes of lies by a racist, and the cycle of keeps the Bell Curve just keeps repeating.

There are also assholes in positions of moderator or administrative power, and if you try to criticize something, alt-right or rationalists will bandwagon to vote you down, wiki-lawyer you, and report you to one of the admins on any technicality they can find. I think that after gamergate a lot of reactionary males made it their personal mission to plant themselves and control positions of power at Wikipedia. They're now part of an establishment.

I don't want to give identifying examples, but I will draw attention to the underlying philosophy of the project. Wikipedia started as a libertarian project by Randians who loved Ayn Rand, and has often failed for thr same reasons that Randian philosophy fails. The vested interests can hire wiki-lawyers to monitor Wikipedia pages, edit them, and protect the reputations of their clients. It happens.

There are also cases of Wikipedians editing Wikipedia to get revenge on their ex-girlfriends. https://thenextweb.com/insider/2012/10/13/wikipedias-dark-side/

Take a look at how tame the article on the Intellectual Dark Web is and tell me that fanboys or vested interests haven't been shielding that article from criticism of their favorite pundits. Always look at the edits and the talk pages to find out how information is being manipulated.

Midwest is interesting as there are still traces of immigrant culture left in some communities in places like Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Chicago obviously (some have argued that even Red State/Blue State divide can be explained by ethnic background). But, these really go on to show that change takes place over generations, and you cannot expect somebody who just moved to, say, Kansas City, Missouri from, Dhaka, Bangladesh to "be like the Romans" and change their dress, food, family relations, etc. in a matter of years (think of the obverse move and you might realize the magnitude of difficulty involved ;)

> It's all just poetry.

I would suggest poetry is serious business and we'd do well to pay attention to its power :)

https://www.amazon.com/Rhetoric-Reaction-Perversity-Futility-Jeopardy-ebook/dp/B00IUF9L16

https://www.amazon.com/Kenneth-Burke-Sociology-Knowledge-Dramatism-ebook/dp/B007CL4YYI

['Poetry' in this case is a stand-in for 'Rhetoric' which is an ancient liberal art--part of the Trivium--and to not be aware of its reach and power is to be truly vulnerable to grifters of the type wreaking havoc on millions of minds]

Sure, but here it's actually worse. Most people don't have a "social connection" to their bank. But Spotify with their social media component makes it even worse to leave, or at least that's how people think.

I mean, moving your playlists etc. is pretty easy: https://freeyourmusic.com/

I even offered some people to help them move if they wanted to, but in the end it really came down to: "But then I can't share stuff with X anymore. 🤷‍♂️