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Richard Sander about Sowell and Racial Preferences in Admissions

The Genius of Thomas Sowell

CHAPTER

The Power of Magic and Misdirection in Politics

I think it gives me because quite a lot of these issues we don't actually think about in that way. And I mean this is a technique that's been used for many years, and with this fascinating research under Vietnam more where the with all the peace protests now it was very hard for the media and the government to be used to protests. But what they did is they reframe the focus of the debate so rather than having a debate about peace movements, it asks questions well are these protesters patriots or not now. And again these are very clever ways in which principles of magic and misdirection can be used to change the change of political narrative. So do you notice anything in the UK

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