This may be generally true of nearly any dogmatic ideology. Because they root themselves in dogma and superstition (or appeal to a authority) rather than science, they can only guide society away from truth and justice, except perhaps by occasional accident.
Hi @kathleen_belew
Really great podcast w @SamHarrisOrg! I learned a lot. I appreciate the way you clearly explain how the danger of white nationalism is so much more than only body count. I feel the same way about Islamic extremism-the body count is just the tip of the iceberg.
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Right. But govts/ law enforcement are too fixated on body count to see the bigger picture. Islamic extremism gets a lot of attn because of high body count, while white nationalism gets less because of lower body count-but that’s inaccurate. It ignores the insidious dangers.
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Here's an article that i think outlines concrete steps that can be taken to tackle many of the threats we're concerned with:https://conatusnews.com/sajid-javid-fgm-british-anti-mafia-laws/ …
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Interesting read. One of my closest friends is a first-generation Canadian (his dad is from Sicily) and we make this comparison a lot in our discussions-as I’m first generation too. There’s a huge disparity btwn how his family were socialized into conforming vs mine that were not
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