Thomas Sowell to Mark Levin: concept of systemic racism ‘has no meaning’

Who needs meaning anyhow?

Chicago Newspapers

That catchphrase for purposes of steaming up the narrative and bamboozling the country.

It has the sound, you know. If you need it explained, you are part of the problem.

Economist and author Thomas Sowell told “Life Liberty & Levin” in an interview airing Sunday evening that the left’s claim that America is beset by “systemic racism” has no definitive meaning and cannot be “tested” in any empirical manner.

“You hear this phrase, ‘systemic racism’ [or] ‘systemic oppression’,” host Mark Levin told Sowell. “You hear it on our college campuses. You hear it from very wealthy and fabulously famous sports stars. What does that mean? And whatever it means, is it true?”

“It really has no meaning that can be specified and tested in the way that one tests hypotheses,” answered Sowell, who added that the currency of the phrase reminds him of the “propaganda tactics” of Nazi Germany…

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