We are fighting for the preservation of Western civilisation - Glenn Loury
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- Опубликовано: 3 окт 2024
- Professor Glenn Loury's opening remarks from the Towards the Common Good: Rethinking Race in the 21st Century conference, hosted by The Equiano Project (www.theequiano... ). This clip is a section from the panel discussion: What do we know about progress in racial equality and the disparities that exist?
Professor Glenn Loury
Merton P. Stoltz Professor of the Social Sciences, Brown University
@GlennLoury
Glenn C. Loury is Merton P. Stoltz Professor of Economics at Brown University. He holds the B.A. in Mathematics (Northwestern) and the Ph.D. in Economics (M.I.T). As an economic theorist, he has published widely and lectured throughout the world on his research. He is also among America's leading critics writing on racial inequality. He has been elected as a Distinguished Fellow of the American Economics Association, as a Member of the American Philosophical Society and of the U.S. Council on Foreign Relations. He is a Fellow of the Econometric Society and of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Books:
The Anatomy of Racial Inequality (2002, Harvard University Press)
Ethnicity, Social Mobility and Public Policy: Comparing the US and the UK (Co-edited with Tariq Modood and Steven Teles; 2005, Cambridge University Press)
What do we know about progress in racial equality and the disparities that exist?
The evidence about racial inequality is varied and complex. It is often hard to draw singular conclusions about how and why certain groups fare differently. Added to this are the myriad definitions of inequality and racism; terms which are used in different ways and often have political connotations. Can we use evidence to reconcile disagreements, engage the 'moderate middle', and reach a shared understanding? What kind of inequality should we all be concerned about? What do we understand or not about the driving factors?
Speakers:
Professor Glenn Loury
Merton P. Stoltz Professor of the Social Sciences, Brown University
Lord Dr Tony Sewell CBE
Chair, Generating Genius
Katharine Birbalsingh CBE
Headmistress, Michaela Community School; Former Chair, Social Mobility Commission
Paul Johnson CBE
Director, Institute for Fiscal Studies
Chair:
Munira Mirza
Chief Executive, Civic Future
I'm always just blown away by Glenn's intellect. I wish I had his vocabulary too.
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Absolutely Dave
@@brettweary8491 ✋️
(Blinking White Guy - GIF)
I'm blown away by his dishonesty
What a Guy! In 5 minutes he was able to encapsulate and elucidate most of the problems troubling this society / world, while offering solutions, when others, so called experts, take years haggling about and never come to any conclusion. Good on you Sir!
This Man and Sowell are beyond Great Minds.
You, sir, are no longer a mere economist, you have stepped into the role of the moral philosopher, and I for one am very pleased to be rooting for you! Black conservatives will lead the charge to save the union!
I think that this is an ideology of us liberals as well. You are being binary in a very complex world.
😂🤣🤣 More like blaq eunuchs.
He neva says anything abowt economics.
@@ondolite3789 Another Sexist Troll
He has no morals
I could sit and listen to this man talking all night.. intellect and common sense are beautiful things.
That last quotation is going to stick with me a very long time.
"It's a surrender of dignity. You will not be equal at the end of that argument even if you get what you ask for. There's no substitute for earning the respect of your peers. If they grant it to you out of guilt or pity, *they have reduced you.* Not elevated you."
Wow. I didn't know how to say it until just now. Thanks for giving me the words to express my own discomfort with this whole idea.
Really, Cody? Lol.
How are YOU discomfited?
By 'equity,' distribution via 'Affirmative Action,' in corporate hiring?
Are you a recruiter?
A recruiter deluged with unqualified candidates, who feels guilt for pushing them through the process because of Affirmative Action? That doesn't happen Cody. Don't pee on our leg.
Here's a fun fact that Glen omitted: the biggest recipient group of Aff Action policy has been people that look like you Cody.
Now let me ask you something- do you think, as Glenn mentioned, that your white female relatives are anguished at the notion they might not be good enough, or qualified?
LOL, uh, no.
Especially when said candidate might be married to the middle manager who can't spell, can never find his files, is stumped by SharePoint and who gave his meth head fckup nephew a job in sales. She knows what's up.
But Glenn, and you-- somehow believe that those of us who, courtesy of Aff Action, MAY get a shot at JUST an interview with a company, should feel insecure...
You believe we should feel shame when methhead Kev in sales, who's bringing up the rear on the leaderboard, wonders aloud how I may have gotten the job?
Glenn needs therapy for his self-esteem issues, and YOU need to stop looking towards conservative Black coonish mouthpieces to give YOU a reason to discriminate and NOT have to hire people different from you.
If you thought your white mom has always been 'qualified,' for the corporate come-up she was invariably denied through the years, because...woman-- then why TF would you think my mom & I are any different?
Your first mistake, is believing that Black folk, give a fck what bigots think.
Remember, Aff Action is correcting a problem of yours(collective), not mine.
The predominant group is the one that says, 'We don't want more competition, and we don't want to share, we don't want to be challenged or have to compete with more people in the workplace.'
The predominant group of white males said that. They hired friends, relatives and people in their network- not always qualified or successful, but usually getting paid twice as much as the token Black guy and white woman in the dept.
Glenn clearly has very little experience in corporate hiring and he's way to self conscious and concerned about what YOU think of him, Cody.
Now THAT shit, is pathetic.
If only school boards and teacher associations spent 10% of the energy they put into pushing CRT and LGB+++... if only they've spent it on conveying these biblical magnitude ideas of Glenn Loury and Thomas Sowell to the kids, America would have been cured in a matter of one generation.
Glenn speaks truth so succinctly every time I hear him.
Fantastic.
Hell yeah!! That was incredible. Need to repeat that around the world on speakerphones 🔊✊🏻
I wish I could give this many thumbs-ups!
Dr. Loury was one thousand percent on point as usual. The best.
Rubbish!🗑️
“Discrimination and Disparities” by Thomas Sowell is a fantastic book. Prof. Sowell is concerned only with empirical evidence which grants tremendous weight to his arguments. Thank you, Prof. Loury, for your eloquent and logically reasoned argument.
Every Sowell book is fantastic. Cannot recommend enough.
Glenn Loury once called my writing "brilliant" and was "blown away" by my site and signed up. How many of his followers can say that? So if I've dealt with him directly and you haven't --- you don't really know for certain that he's all that you believe him to do, do ya? I believed -- until I discovered otherwise. You just sang Sowell praises for being "concerned only with empirical evidence which grants tremendous weight to his arguments." So if I use empirical evidence to prove that he doesn't always use empirical evidence -- shouldn't you consider those arguments on the very premise upon which he's put on a pedestal?
In you're like his army of apologists -- you're already ramping up to defend him (and you don't even know what the subject matter is). You assume you know -- and that, all by itself -- is a gross breach in Thomas Sowell's tenets. You should know that, shouldn't you?
I'm practically spit on by people who promote principles I followed to find he didn’t. Let that sink in for a moment.
I'm not here for chatter -- so if you're not interested in putting some time & effort into the story referenced below, we have nothing to talk about. Good day.
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Do You Want to Solve Problems or Protest About Them?
For 20 years, I’ve been practically spit on for following principles people worship purveyors of virtue for peddling. I wrote and produced a documentary to address such behavior, but in the last 18 months - I’ve seen savagery beyond anything that inspired it. The smorgasbord of sub-cultures has created another dimension of delusion in America - hardening minds, not broadening them.
Bari Weiss wrote: “But we’re all here because we share . . . a commitment to reason, curiosity, independence, decency, and a hunger for honest conversation. In our upside-down world, holding fast to these ideals can sometimes feel lonely. More than ever, we crave the company of people who share our core values.”
What people crave is the company of those who see themselves as they do. Without “commitment” and “holding fast” - it’s just wishful thinking, and it shows!
The doc was designed as a tool for honest debate. Now? It’s intended for a larger framework to clear the clutter that’s crippled this country. I’ve got an idea - and it’s got teeth. I need fiercely independent thinkers for my Clear the Clutter plan to be fully realized, but right now - one will do.
How do we make people realize they’ve been lied to? You have to knock down one small pillar that’s easier to reach. I’ve got the perfect pillar - on the biggest and most costly lie in modern history, no less.
Fighting the problems of today with conventional tactics is colossally counterproductive, dangerous, and even deadly. But almost everyone is operating on faith-based belief that their efforts will prevail (bolstered by the fact that they’ve achieved some fashion of success). At what cost?
“Dealing on the moment” is what America does “best.” Even those I agree with - don’t look at the totality of a problem (and exacerbate it by failing to do so). They isolate issues within their wheelhouse - without understanding the dimensions that derail their efforts outside of it.
As Barbara Tuchman put it in The March of Folly:
“Like many alternatives, however, it was psychologically impossible. Character is fate, as the Greeks believed. Germans were schooled in winning objectives by force, unschooled in adjustment. They could not bring themselves to forgo aggrandizement even at the risk of defeat.”
America is “unschooled in adjustment.”
Someone on Twitter once replied, “The solution to this problem is more truth, not less.” “More” won’t make a dent in today’s trench warfare between armies of unreachables. Conventional methods are not working, but they would when combined with unconventional tools to address problems in a manner that could actually solve some.
Please visit One Voice Became Two dot life to find “Do You Want to Solve Problems or Protest About Them?”
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Sowell has NEVER written a book.
@Mount Everest of the Obvious Sowell and Lousy always make me howl with laughter.
Dreadful pick mes with no scruples or values whatsoever.
Both obsessed with holding blaqs 'accountable'.
Both satanists.
@@mounteverestoftheobvious1182 What principles did you find that Thomas didn't adhere to? I'm a little confused by the tone of this message, and a bit more confused about what the mini-essay is to convey. Do you mind elaborating?
That"s 5 minutes of brilliant, articulate, thoughtful and pragmatic observation/analysis of today"s culture of victimhood, blame shifting,and identity politics. Exactly what the world needs to hear. Having read many of Thomas Sowell"s books, how is it that I have never heard of this man? I want to see him on Joe Rogan getting 10m views!.
Glen is on his way to becoming a national treasure
He's already there in my view.
@@cavemanben 😳
@@cavemanben National Treasures come pretty cheap these days. Since Loury once called my writing "brilliant" was "blown away" by my site and signed up, I suggest you take time to pause before you start slinging assumptions:
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These guys have done some great work over the years, but you watching it is not work - it’s entertainment (unless you leverage their work when doing your own).
Work is a journey in which you welcome challenge. Work is difficult and demands discernment. Work does not rest on who’s right and who’s wrong: Work wants to know if there’s something more to see, something to learn, something that sharpens the mind. Work never stops building on the foundation of your own work and what you learn from the work of others.
Work works its way through material that is not easy. Work recognizes complexity and the demands of in-depth explanation. Work will go on a trip to ideas that take time and effort to understand. Work knows that you can’t see a solution without understanding the different dimensions of a problem.
Work does not defend before you consider. Work does not race to conclusions - work arrives at them through careful consideration. Work is willing is rethink what you think you know. Work takes integrity, courtesy, curiosity, courage, and decency. Work comes with the willingness to be wrong.
Work is not self-satisfied. Work does not sling snippets of certitude - work crafts argument on the merits. Work is an exchange where each party takes information into account. Work does not issue childish insults - work demands that you act your age. Work respects your intelligence by using it - and shows respect to others as we work our way to mutual respect. Work doesn’t have to be pretty (and often won’t be) - but work will do what it takes to work it out.
And if you wanna start solving problems - work is what it’s gonna take.
I’ve got an idea - and it’s got teeth. Naturally, it takes work - and will put you to the test in ways you’ve never been. As RUclips has cracked down on including non-RUclips links, here’s your options for the work that awaits you:
Please visit One Voice Became Two dot life to find a post called “Do You Want to Solve Problems or Protest About Them?”
Or you can go to ruclips.net/video/p4hMfZfN8WA/видео.html -- where you’ll find a link in the description.
If you’re unwilling to do either of the above, you’re not the type who’d do the work in the first place. I don’t do chatter, but if you’d like to have a serious discussion on what I have in mind, please contact me through the site (as I won’t respond here). But be advised: If you won’t put the time and effort into hearing me out by reading the whole thing, we have nothing to talk about and I wish you well. By all means, if you have some sincere questions along the way - feel free to ask.
Thank you for your time.
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Yeah I can see his forehead up there on that mountain with Jefferson, Washington, Sowell and Thomas!😆
@@ondolite3789🤡🤡
One of those rare and wonderful speakers
Well said!
Mr. Loury is the best!
Thank you for posting this. I respect and appreciate Glenn.
Spot on!
Wonderful. I've been following Glenn for some time, he reminds me of Christopher Hitchens, he's incapable of being dull, is always brilliant, insightful and witty and never suffers fools.
But he is a fool.
@@AndyMann-vs3sf Everyone can see the fool who outed himself here AndyMann
@@lmp9256 Thxfallettinminnoe.
@@AndyMann-vs3sf yvw
I just discovered this intellectual gem of a man. Wow.
Another impassioned and insightful talk by Glenn Loury 👏
When??
@@ondolite3789Grow a brain
He sums it up perfectly.
Brilliant, yet he just spoke truth and common sense !
Glenn is great. I hope we can watch more of this talk.
We love Glenn.
Love it.
👌 bravo sir 👏 🙌
I love Glenn's clarity and passion...and his twinkling eyes! I wish this channel would post more.
Oh I know. His eyes really do twinkle! I love Glenn and John so much. I feel so lucky to have access to their daily thoughts!
Clarity??
This is one of the clearest and most articulate arguments against pie-in-the sky equity and identity politics I've heard.
Absolutely spot on!
this man just restored my belief in humanity, he should be President for real
The man is brilliant.
"Equity" just breeds suspicion of unearned promotion.
last 30 seconds of the clip was probably the most insightful, honest and powerful ideas I have heard on the subject.
Wow, Glenn. I listen your podcast while I work, so I rarely get a chance to actually _watch_ you speak. I don't even know how to describe this video. I've watched it a few times over. The authenticity and intensity with which you delivered this blew me away. I'm rarely rendered speechless but I'm struggling to find words to describe what I've just watched. You're an intellectual giant, Glenn, and I cannot tell you much I appreciate the fact that I have access to your thoughts every day. Thank you so much. I can't wait to hear what's up next from this speech.
P.S John McWhorter is the man, too.;)
Wow brilliant 👏
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Most people don't really want total freedom. Because total freedom involves self responsiblity and accountability... It's easier to claim inequality than take on the full responsibility of total freedom.
This guy is pretty smart, he should be a professor or something
Glenn Loury is the man!
And he is 100% correct.
Curtis!
@@brittneywitherspoon8530 Howdy!
Always EDUCATE your youth and promote by MERIT not by colour.
delusion cant be represented by no one better then Glenn Loury
Dr. Loury continues to stimulate my thinking in ways I never imagined capable. Thank you sir!
My dad was fairly high up in the DOT at the time.
He told me Hector the Cat was a ploy, by the department head, to get the minister out of the office.
So the minister was doing all these Hector the Cat community events. At the same time the department head was attending high level talks.
I was just bragging yesterday about all the stuff I knew😂😂 and I've never heard of Glen lowrey... That's insane! Top goat!!!!
Glenn Loury , professor of Based
you have no intelligent reply to discredit the argument of Glenn so you throw out a millennial buzz word used when there's no sufficient intellectual grounds for disagreement. Please use your brain and formulate a sentence that contains contrary information or at least opinion. I doubt that will happen because you're probably a white college student trying to discredit a black PHD professor of an Ivy league school. He is light years your senior in all intellectual discussion.
I can’t hear enough from Glenn Lowry ….. I hope there is LOTS more content from this panel to come.
I also see Tony Sewell and Katharine Birbalsingh at the same table - this should be some amazing festival of wisdom and heterodoxy!!
This guy is one smart cookie. Good for him.
Powerful stuff!
Perfect, the noticing of the contradiction between the self professed difference in identity whilst griping about disparities between groups is amazing.
Based
I recommend people interested in Loury’s opinions to listen to his conversations with Sam Harris.
Smart man.
I cannot take another speech on race from anyone.
Good to hear this man talk there are normaln people out there who see the obvious dangers in jumping on the trendy woke marxist banwagon and also the dangers of not standing up for commonsence based on the content of a persons charactet ?
"it's a surrender of dignity." Exactly! I never could validate a job that someone didn't earn on their merit. To not earn on merit, is in fact, a surrender of one's dignity, and how any soul can mitigate that is beyond me.
Is it a surrender of dignity for the historical Equiano to demand release from slavery? If his overseer says "well work harder and prove your worth" do you think that would be a just meritocracy? Or do you think that enslaving Equiano to a system that robs him of agency and demands he work for others for his survival is the true theft of dignity?
@@thezpn clever detour😄
Brilliant but the sadness in his voice is that he must say these things and very few are listening and many are fighting those ideas. Keep it up, your voice is powerful and inspiring
Only to racists.
This channel came up on my feed and I just fell in love with the direct and accurate approach that was given in this speech! Based on social facts & historical research...not just feelings. The problem is that a well read man like this finds himself arguing against those who refutes what he says based on nothing but what they see within their own bubbles. Thank you for this snip and look forward to seeing more.
“When you read the history of the world you are reading a saga of bloodshed and greed and folly.
And yet we imagine that the future will somehow be different.”
-As delivered by Samuel L. Jackson in the movie ‘Sunset Limited.’
That was Tommy Lee Jones. Great movie though
Love this man. They don’t create many like him these days.
I wish I was intelligent enough to be considered your peer Professor Loury, but you most certainly still have my respect for whatever that's worth!
Out of the park. Why is he not famous?
Because, a lot of what he says, is B.S., Dr. Claud Anderson, would destroy him in a debate.
So well spoken.
Incredible opening...
Love this man.
“There’s no substitute for earning the respect of your peers. If they grant it to you out of guilt or pity, they have just reduced you, not elevated you.”
It’s gone, they gave it away.
Wow...
Excellent, hope to see more of this...
I’m always inspired by Glenn.
Glenn Lowery my hero!
Respect 💯
Marvellous man.
Very well stated
Glenn is a real one!
Excellent as usual, Doctor
This dude just earned my respect!
What a great man. Admire him enormously. A brilliant intellectual leader. Guts. “There’s no replacement for the respect of your peers.”
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That line about guilt and pity was a mic drop
Preach it brother!!
Great communicators make things simple. Glenn's a great communicator.
"I am your client" .... "and you have reduced me"
I visit my politician every time I need medical advice.
SCOYUS has just validated everything he said about equity by overturning Affirmative Action!
What is western Civilization? We’re did they get their, so called western Values? - Malcolm X
Thomas Sowell work needs to be taught in school
Full video?
Glenn, the strongest voice I know
Wow! That was well said.
Off the cuff? Wow 🔥 I thought he was standing till the camera angle changed - he was sitting and being a standup guy.
I love this man -he’s brilliant, fearless and honest -reminds me of Thomas sowell
Two of the greatest intellectuals of the era. I really can't think of anyone better. If the world could come around to this way of thinking, the rate of progress would be unimaginable.
As a black man, I so hate this pandering that he does. He's read and forgot more than I've read, but stacking up the volumes of books doesn't mean he's right. I'm sorry, he knows better.
There will sometimes and often times be in-group preferencing, for the matter of cohesion and comfort. But, quality skills and behavior-character will win most of the time.
RUclips has censored my comment here twice.
What he said was so powerful when he ended it lightly with "That's all I have to say in five minutes!" the crowd let out a laugh after a deep breath in awe of what he had just said. It was literally ironically hillarious because he spelled out the entire equity problem in a short and eloquent speech.
Alright, you get the prize.
I think he's FOS!
my hero
The problem is that American blacks pale in comparison to their immigrant Nigerian, Mediterranean, Indian, and Asian counterparts which are incredibly successful and prospering in this country.
But, for some reason, the blacks underperform across all metrics.
That’s because, Asians: Indians, Arabs and some Latino groups, get loans from banks, and the government. To start up business in the black community or like mine the Mexican community. These immigrants, can never open up, a business in a white community.
Search Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations for
"read, write and account" he used the phrase multiple times. He used the word 'education' Eighty Times.
Does that have anything to do with Western civilization?
Glenn on panel with the brilliant educator Katharine Birbalsingh, finally!
Glen just dropped the mic.