Laura Jedeed (Misanthrophile)

I had to take a rage break, back at it After talking about how simplistic identity politics and "wokeness" is, Sam Harris has some good news: racism is gone because we had a black president and the police who beat Freddie Gray were black So like, we did it guys. Yay?

Harris does something very interesting where he cites facts to back up his assertion that racism is real, then uses opinions to explain how maybe it's not that bad So the facts-to-opinion ratio is pretty good, it's just that the facts are all on the side he's trying to debunk

OK wow he just came out for reparations as fair Sorry belay that, "But if we do reparations where does it end?" Turns out it's unworkable, maybe, he's not sure, oh god he doesn't know anything, who can know anything?!

This episode brought to you by the word "but," which is doing more heavy lifting than should be asked of any word

"But with that as preamble, let us talk about George Floyd" -40 minutes in That is not a preamble that is an entire podcast. Jesus Fuck how does anyone listen to this, what drug can I take to make this bearable

Stop talking about how brave you are to ask questions challenge 2020

Oh my god, "the real problem is police violence against white people" I'm fucking done I hate this My mom had like a two-second window of awareness and then assholes like this crushed it with their pseudorational bullshit Obviously my mom has agency here too but fuck this guy

I'm not done, I'm deeply masochistic, fuck If you are still reading this hell thread, so are you. Go outside Harris is now spending about 5 minutes telling us that what he's about to say will make us disgusted but that this is irrational and that offense isn't an argument

JUST SAY FACTS DON'T CARE ABOUT YOUR FEELINGS, JUST SAY IT YOU FUCKING ASSHOLE Ben Shapiro Lite

It turns out there are only 1000 police shootings, out of ten million police interactions I'm not going to fact check this, but let's say it's true: why are we assuming that murder is the only thing the cops are doing wrong? Fuck a prison industrial complex amirite

"Cops have a very hard job"

"I don't know if we have racial date for arrests but it seems like" bitch what it seems like is that you should have googled that and if there isn't data maybe you should ask why

Straight copaganda: "[if you don't understand the pressure police are in, how can you judge them?! How can you possibly know how hard it is?!]" I know murder is wrong, how about that "Most cops don't get the training they need" Yeah, we know

Twenty minutes ago Harris told us not to get super mad at him and to ignore any emotions we might feel, but that that cops are more violent towards white people than black people, statistically. He said he'd back that up with facts later This is how these fuckers operate.

The listener assumes there will be proof and incorporates it into their minds as fact In another twenty minutes Harris will probably back it up with facts, at which point the average listener will have stopped listening because this is two fucking hours long

But even if the listener persists, by the time "proof" arrives they've already accepted the statement on faith. So whatever garbage evidence he offers will play into their worldview and be way more compelling than if he'd said it initially Jordan Peterson is the master of this

Harris is now saying that even videos of justified murder by cop look horrific. It will always happen, and it will always make us angry, and we need to be more rational about this y'all, just be rational ok??