After the week of progressive blather from the Democrats, you need to dust off your James Burnham, Kenneth Minogue (The Liberal Mind), and above all Thomas Sowell as an emetic. Social Justice Fallacies is a good place to start:
Many assumptions and phrases in the social justice literature are repeated endlessly, without any empirical test. When women are statistically “under-represented” in Silicon Valley, for example, some people automatically assume that to be due to sex discrimination by Silicon Valley employers. It so happens that the work done in Silicon Valley is based on an application of engineering skills, including computer software engineering—and American women receive less than 30 percent of the degrees in engineering, whether at the college level or the postgraduate level.
When men receive less than 20 percent of the undergraduate degrees in education, and only 22 percent and 32 percent of master’s degrees and doctoral degrees, respectively, in the same subject, is it surprising that men are under-represented among school teachers and women under-represented in engineering occupations?
