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“You hear this phrase — systemic racism, systemic oppression — you hear it from our college campuses, you hear it from very wealthy and fabulously famous sports stars, you hear it from media types. First of all, what does that mean, and whatever it means, is it true?”

Here’s Mr. Sowell:

“It really has no meaning that can be specified and tested in the way that one tests hypotheses.”

“It does remind me of the propaganda tactics of Joseph Goebbels in the age of the Nazis, in which he was supposed to have said that people will believe any lie if it’s repeated long enough and loud enough. And that’s what we’re getting.”