Big, Sweeping, Ideological/Theoretical, All-Purpose Explanations--e.g. ("institutional") Racism

One of Sowell's point is:

The less you know about the details of some problem, and the more you're inclined to think like a humanist, the more you're inclined to accept big, sweeping, ideological/theoretical explanations. For example, people who are familiar with the details of police shootings, give much more specific, partial explanations. Men commit more violent crime that women and resist arrest much more frequently. Same for black men as compared to white men. The rates of police shootings are proportional to the background violent crime rates of the two groups, hence probably driven by those tendencies to use violence. Police shootings are almost always found to be justified. Even in cases in which the person shot was not armed in a narrow sense, that person tends to have been armed in a broader sense--e.g. with a car he was using to try to kill the cops...and so on.

   Compare the other side, that just repeats ("systemic") racism over and over, no matter what, as their all-purpose explanation. 

   It has the marks of a pseudoscientific / ideological / philosophical explanation. Certainly not a scientific one... 

   Note that such explanations require no actual knowledge of the actual facts. And they're so amorphous that you can always make up a story that leads there.