Lest anyone accuse me of not loving my parents, my mom has sent me a Sam Harris podcast about the protests and I'm going to make a good-faith attempt to listen to it He is opening by talking about how "terrified" he is to talk about this. For 5 minutes
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It seems these protests are destroying our ability to have a conversation Funny, I don't remember having this conversation before these protests. Seems like these protests have kicked off conversations we've never had as a nation before, including this podcast actually
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I'm sorry for tweeting through this but it's the only way I can do it This motherfucker just said that the protests exacerbate police violence. In related news, burning dinner exacerbates domestic violence. Please stop burning dinner so we can make domestic violence go away
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Hey guys Sam Harris has a lot of questions. Like is all this just a media spectacle? Maybe the cops are mostly fine. Who can say? No way to know! Guess we'll just disguise the cowardice of not evaluating the evidence at hand as a rational position
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Is racism actually worse under Trump? Well, one could look at statistics that indicate yes but one could also NOT look at it and say, who's to say? He's just asking questions, people I mean, doesn't all this help Trump?
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Intellectual standards on the right are so low that you can make a career out of "huh maybe some facts are out there who knows"
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I'm in the wrong profession, if only I hadn't joined the Army and gone to UChicago like I almost did I could be rich as fuck right now but NO
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"leading conservative intellectual..."
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