This is a thoroughly ignorant article pretending that privilege is in our past. Fails to address 1) current voter ID laws targeting black voters, 2) law enforcement bias to shoot black suspects first, and much more. Cites black-on-black violence to refute privilege...irrelevant.
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Cites Starbucks incident as example that the pendulum has swung in the other direction, ignoring completely that a law abiding person had the police called to throw him out of a store because he was black. This is not historical. This is happening now.
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@samharris have been mistreated and defamed by the left, and do a service by pointing out their excesses. But I see no evidence that this pendulum has swung anywhere near the other side. -
Coates, by the way, was not commenting that 9/11 responders are a menace, for God’s sake. His comment was about how profoundly he was affected by his friend’s shooting, and the extreme psychological damage it caused. Definition of a straw man argument.
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Sam come on. You're better than this.
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This is an exceptional article.
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This article commits the same type of bad faith quoting out of context regarding Coates that you constantly whine about. Show some consistency.
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Which quotes do you think are out of context?
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Coates is clearly not endorsing the feelings about 9/11 he felt. He is merely honestly expressing that he felt them. You know, the type of honestly the intellectual dark web so values. The article is trying to say Coates believes these things.
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Would you hold him to such a low standard if he wasn’t black?
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I don’t think I’m holding him to a low standard at all. I’m saying the author took him out of context, like Harris himself is, and that Harris should be more aware of this kind of false attack.
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But the writers only point is that a white author being so candid would have resulted in immediate backlash. Do you think a Jewish writer just being ‘honest’ about his contempt for some German tragedy would have been tolerated ?
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If that was his point, he could have made it clear Coates was not endorsing the view. It’s a cheap shot, even if there is some validity to the idea a white author may have gotten more flak.
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I would have to reread that part .... but maybe it’s not a 100 percent fair to Coates. I still like his Black Panther comics ... Lol
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The arguments in this are spectacularly flawed and it's very telling that you can't see that
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I thought the article was asking a lot of valid questions and not really answering them sufficiently, but it’s a short article, not a book so that’s fine. Is it that you’re saying that the author is naive or willfully obtuse?
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The complete dismissal of the history of racism as being something that affects the world today is beyond obtuse. The Coates quote about 9/11 leaves out important context where he says it's not right to think that way, and pairing it with Weiss being mocked for her tweet is dumb
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When it’s Coates you’re all about context. When it’s Harris ehhhh not so muh
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Harris does this a lot personally too. With Chomsky he continued strawmanning him even after Chomsky explained to him in simple words what his position actually is
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Ew Chomsky sucks
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That's no excuse to repeatedly strawman him
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