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“A word invented by fascists and used by cowards to manipulate morons”

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  • jon-nycJ Online
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    jon-nyc
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    Sam Harris’s latest Making Sense podcast: “What is Islamophobia?”

    Only 12 minutes long. Couldn’t recommend it enough.

    Thank you for your attention to this matter.

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      Copper
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      #2

      https://www.samharris.org/podcasts/making-sense-episodes/343-what-is-islamophobia

      $8.33 per month
      $99.99 annual subscription (go with the monthly save $0.03!)

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      • jon-nycJ Online
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        I thought they had a non-subscription feed.

        Thank you for your attention to this matter.

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          Link to video

          Education is extremely important.

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            Copper
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            #5

            Yes, it took me to the subscribe button, so I gave up.

            But! There is a "Preview Episode" button. That gives me an 11:50 recording of #343 - What Is "Islamophobia"

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              Horace
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              Sam releases what he considers to be important thoughts of his for free on YouTube. Same reason why I post here rather than behind a paywall.

              Education is extremely important.

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                #7

                Anyone get the feeling that every sort of media preaches to the choir now. I got big into podcasts a few years ago - and topics felt exciting because it felt like there were really well-thought out counter-mainstream perspectives out there.

                No one talks to each other though - all of this is yelling into some sort of void. Not a ground breaking insight, I know. Just had a feeling of, "you're right, but who cares", listening to this.

                But agree, great episode.

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                  #8

                  We run up against the impossibility of proving a cultural perspective with facts and logic. Sam didn't lie or stretch any truths in that monologue, but neither did he prove anything about how we should all feel about Israel/Palestine. People on the opposite side can produce a bunch of truths in support of their perspective too. There are rarely factual disagreements underlying these cultural issues. Maybe there's an objective way to measure how correct each side is, but if there is, humans don't reliably employ it to make their judgments.

                  Education is extremely important.

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                    I have released some of my serious thoughts on this and many other topics. They're behind a paywall. I release my less important and occasionally even rather stupid thoughts free of charge as a service to the community.

                    As Horace should note, you get what you pay for.

                    I was only joking

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                    • jon-nycJ jon-nyc

                      Sam Harris’s latest Making Sense podcast: “What is Islamophobia?”

                      Only 12 minutes long. Couldn’t recommend it enough.

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                      @jon-nyc

                      Agreed. Very well presented.

                      Elbows up!

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                        After watching the Harris podcast I recalled this segment on the Bill Maher Show years ago with Christopher Hitchens:

                        Link to video

                        Elbows up!

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                          Gawd, Hitchens was something, wasn't he?

                          "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08

                          The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.

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