Also requires ensuring you support & welcome the liberals in every population. This really shouldn't be difficult to understand.
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The idea that to be a properly liberal westerner one must support conservative Muslims &call liberal Muslims 'Islamophobes' is the most nuts
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The idea that to be a properly liberal westerner one must pretend Islam & the vast majority of Muslims are liberal is a close second.
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The idea that to be a properly liberal westerner one must support liberal values &oppose illiberal ones consistently shld be uncontroversial
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You are aware that in that clip Sam was playing the role of devil's advocate. Those are statements by him.
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He was presenting a view, yes. He's said many times that we need to think statistically & realistically & also welcome liberals
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He was presenting the reactionary view for Maajid to answer/counter. I thought you were defending him for what he said there.
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Please see my tweets & replies.
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It irks me when the statement "doing <bad thing> is rational for <group>" is taken to mean "I personally think that <bad thing> is good".
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We need to identify and dismantle the perverse incentives that lead to <bad thing>, rather than attacking just the symptoms or the people
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that point at the causal links. (ofc, there're some who think <bad thing> is good,it just doesn't follow from an out of contxt quote of 1st)
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Liberals can't afford to be Tolerant of the Intolerant
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That just whizzed straight over his head
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@rezaaslan lies again, surprise surprise!!! He gives dishonest people a bad nameThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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