In politics, the goal is not truth, but votes. If you can get people to believe that their problems are all due to racists, you will get their votes. But if you look at a lot of data, you discover that's not the case.
— Thomas Sowell, Uncommon Knowledge: Social Justice Fallacies (Robinson) (2023)
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