>Is he really? >I don't claim to be an 'expert' on everything Sowell has done, but nothing I've seen is all that remarkable. His main claim to fame seems to be that he's a black man saying certain common sense things out loud that would get a White in trouble with zog. He debunked the gender wage gap myth in the 1970s. And went on national television to debate it. This was back in the day when you could still call a black man a nigger to his face and not get cancelled. He was a couple of decades ahead of his time because the earliest I can remember it being popular to debunk the gender wage gap myth was Freakonomics and that was late 1990s. However, I'm far too young to "remember" so it is possible that folks debunked it publicly long before then. But the earliest date I've found is 1970s from Thomas Sowell. That's when the gender wage gap myth started. Not just that, but obviously a bunch of other things he's done related to economics. But his most important contribution is holding black people accountable for the problems they cause with science and facts. Many modern conservative thinkers do not realize it but they are parroting talking points from Thomas Sowell that Thomas Sowell has been saying for decades. They don't even know it. He's most certainly not the father of the modern conservative movement but he is one of the top contributors. I am not a conservative, I'm a libertarian. But there's enough overlap that I do like some of the work that conservative thinkers put out. >So, I don't think Sowell's stupid, but I don't think he's anywhere near as smart as many people on the right are desperate to believe he is. I'm not from the right at all. >If you base your expectations on the exception rather than the rule I don't. But I'm also not stupid enough to throw the baby out with the bathwater. Sowell is an extreme exception by any race, not just black people. He's most definitely a very rare genius. This is true of multiple black people throughout history. Frederick Douglas is likely a genius, for example. This is why he stood out and what contributed to his success. Also, his combination of conscientiousness and intelligence. If he were alive today, he'd lament the backwards progress of black people in the US and he'd also hold them accountable for their willful ignorance, violence, and voluntary destruction of the black family unit.