The world of the anointed is a very tidy place—or, put differently, every deviation of the real world from the tidiness of their vision is considered to be someone’s fault. If employment or college admissions statistics do not match the preconceptions of the anointed, then that indicates discrimination.
— Thomas Sowell, The Vision of the Anointed: Self-Congratulation as a Basis for Social Policy (1995), p. 244
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