Has @bariweiss, @SamHarrisOrg, @jordanbpeterson, @benshapiro, or @charlesmurray responded to @NathanJRobinson's article on @curaffairs yet? It's been four months. Nothing but crickets. https://www.currentaffairs.org/2018/05/pretty-loud-for-being-so-silenced …
Peterson & Harris haven't written long essays about why specific thinkers are bad--recommending they not be taken seriously by sane ppl. When you do that you shouldn't strawman, mischaracterize, and not contend /w the true and useful things that explain some of their popularity.
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No, Harris just blithely compares Vox journalists to the Klan. What a fundamentally unserious man undeserving of attention. https://twitter.com/aiizavva/status/1007622441487695873 …
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This is the exact thing I'm critiquing Robinson for. Dismissing a person using a half-sentence out of context quote that uncharitably understands what he's trying to get at is hack. You wouldn't accept someone doing that to Popper or Quine. It's not good to do in general.
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If I wrote an essay critiquing Coates it would be hack to find the dumbest most implausible thing he wrote and use that to say no one should listen to him.
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