Steel-manning @ezraklein:
1. @SamHarrisOrg is not a racist.
2. Harris is not an anti-Muslim bigot.
3. Harris has criticised Islam, Islamism and conservatism in Muslim communities.
4. That criticism has been misused & co-opted by genuine anti-Muslim bigots, esp the AltRight.
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5. Many people on the Left have smeared Harris's legitimate criticisms of Islam as bigoted and even racist criticisms of Muslims. Most have done this out of well-meaning ignorance, but some have done it deliberately & dishonestly. 6. Harris has been scarred by this experience.
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7. The Middlebury Riot caused Harris to examine the way in which
@charlesmurray has been treated by the Left. 8. Harris has come to see in Murray a fellow victim of Regressive Left hysteria. 9. This empathy has blinded Harris to Murray's arguably sinister policy agenda.2 replies 0 retweets 3 likesShow this thread -
10. Harris seems unable to appreciate that a lot of the aprobrium heaped upon Murray is justified, not by his science, but by the policy agenda he uses his science to sell.
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11. Harris seems incapable of realising that, to the extent there is good science about genetic IQ differences, Murray is NOT the best posterboy for that science. 12. Nevertheless, Harris is right that the science is either true or false, regardless of who is it's posterboy.
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13. All in all, Harris has once again been damaged by his almost autistic political naivetè. He seems committed to repeatedly blundering blindfolded into minefields to tapdance, but seems shocked when he gets his legs blown off.
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Why are you autism shaming? Why should the burden be on aspies to anticipate all the bizarre, ever changing triggers that Leftists might find offensive?
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Replying to @primalpoly
1. I assume you're joking. 2. The landmines here were not "ever changing". Indeed this minefield is one of the oldest & most famous ever planted by the left - and like.manybreal world monefields, there were many damn good reasons to have planted it at the time!!!
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