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Mufaddal

(1,021 posts)
Wed Mar 9, 2016, 05:24 PM Mar 2016

My secret debate w/ Sam Harris: A revealing 4-hour dialogue on Islam, racism & free-speech hypocrisy

"When I wrote an essay critical of the famous atheist, he asked me to debate the issues. Now he refuses to air it"
Omer Aziz

Harris referred to me as a “young Muslim writer,” echoing his remarks during our debate where he referred to the same Middle Easterners he considers backward subhumans as “your fellow Muslims.” Imagine the grotesque stench of anti-Semitism if I called Sam Harris a “Jewish neuroscientist” or referred to Jewish terrorists in the West Bank as Harris’s “fellow Jews.” This is what white supremacy does: It reduces another person’s complex humanity to a two-dimensional stick-figure and allows the objectifier to remain so ignorant of how other people actually live that this ignorance becomes a privileged badge of honor rather than a mark of impoverishment. One should pity individuals like Harris, so blinded by arrogance that they live in a world removed from the struggles of every day people who they assume to be knaves and fools.

This is an long but great read: http://www.salon.com/2016/03/07/my_secret_debate_with_sam_harris_a_revealing_4_hour_dialogue_on_islam_racism_free_speech_hypocrisy/
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My secret debate w/ Sam Harris: A revealing 4-hour dialogue on Islam, racism & free-speech hypocrisy (Original Post) Mufaddal Mar 2016 OP
Its also completely wrong. Hollandscotts Apr 2017 #1
Sam Harris is a disgusting bigot and something of a bad joke in philosophical circles. YoungDemCA Jul 2017 #3
Thank you Alameda May 2017 #2
 

Hollandscotts

(14 posts)
1. Its also completely wrong.
Mon Apr 17, 2017, 02:33 PM
Apr 2017

Having actually listened to the podcast, I completely take Sam's side. Omer is disingenuous liar. He's an intellectual nobody.

 

YoungDemCA

(5,714 posts)
3. Sam Harris is a disgusting bigot and something of a bad joke in philosophical circles.
Fri Jul 21, 2017, 04:42 PM
Jul 2017

Not a good perspn for you to lend your spoort.

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