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   Sally Strange (sallystrange@strangeobject.space)'s status on Friday, 04-Aug-2023 09:15:13 JST Sally Strange

   Y'all are passing around a quote from Sam Harris, author of "The End of Faith," among other books. It's a perfectly nice quote. And Sam Harris is a bigot. A non-exhaustive list of bigoted positions he holds:

   -women avoid atheist conferences because their "estrogen vibe" makes them averse to conflict
   -Islam is so radically different from other world religions that a nuclear first strike against an Islamic regime would be warranted
   -racial profiling of Muslims is warranted
   -Charles Murray is just misunderstood

   He's not a good person and his ideas are not that interesting. Now you know.

   #SamHarris #racism #sexism #WhiteSupremacy #Islamophobia #TheMoreYouKnow

   https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/3/27/15695060/sam-harris-charles-murray-race-iq-forbidden-knowledge-podcast-bell-curve

   https://the-orbit.net/heinous/2014/09/12/sam-harris-estrogen-vibe/

   https://www.salon.com/2015/10/10/sam_harris_dangerous_new_idiocy_incoherent_islamophobic_and_simply_immoral/

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     novatorine 🏴🏳️‍⚧️ (anarchopunk_girl@kolektiva.social)'s status on Friday, 04-Aug-2023 09:14:55 JST novatorine 🏴🏳️‍⚧️

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     @SallyStrange Yeah. I'm an atheist and horrible bigotry aside, his ideas are *fucking boring* and superficial. He's just like the average "skeptic" STEM bro who left religion but didn't do any intellectual or personal legwork beyond that. The Moral Landscape is the best example of this. Dude claims to "derive morality from science" and A) it's the most vague, meaningless morality possible and B) it doesn't work and he'd know that if he had more than a passing familiarity with philosophy.

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     novatorine 🏴🏳️‍⚧️ (anarchopunk_girl@kolektiva.social)'s status on Friday, 04-Aug-2023 09:18:53 JST novatorine 🏴🏳️‍⚧️

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     @SallyStrange he still beat the pants of JBP in their debates lol, but I think that's more a testament to what a pseudointellectual JBP is than anything positive about Harris besides him being a very clear communicator (great, he can clearly communicate shit ideas, perfect)