I got up this morning and was moved to churn out a YouTube video before 9am. It was really easy because Sam Harris said some incredibly bigoted things about that sinister theocrat
, Zohran Mamdami.
Making videos is easy when you get inspired by looney-tunes creeps.
The Zionist project is imperiled, perhaps most by the attitudes of younger generations towards Israel. Their propagandists have been scrambling to improve the situation, and the most surefire way they know of to get Israel’s approval numbers up is with a fresh injection of fear: to turn the anti-Arab racism and Islamophobia up to 11, non-stop.
I wonder if Sam Harris is dutifully doing his part in response.
Sam Harris has always been a horrible person.
It isn’t like he is ever going to change either.
So what hate filled bigotry did he say lately?
(I don’t watch Youtube videos so the link in the OP isn’t going to help me.)
So here it is. The tl;dr version.
.1. Sam Harris is a mindless hater of Muslims.
The mayor of New York City is a Muslim.
Sam Harris hates Zohran Mamdani.
.2. Sam Harris lies a lot.
Sam Harris lies about the mayor of NYC.
I didn’t have to read that to know that Sam Harris is still a horrible person and a waste of time.
A quote from the same article above.
Sam Harris hates almost everyone all the time.
Sam Harris lies a lot.
Sam Harris is usually wrong about everything.
I actually figured all that out myself many years ago.
I read his book, The End of Faith, when it came out.
I got half way through and said, “This is garbage and a waste of my time” and took it back to the library. At least I didn’t spend any money buying the thing.
He mostly just Muslim and Islam bashes.
I can’t even say it was wrong.
But it isn’t our main problem with religion in the USA.
We have our own version of militant Islamists called fundie xians.
They are here, they are powerful, and they want to take our society back to the Dark Ages.
Bigoted aholes like S Harris don’t even have an conscience. Mamdani is one of the most decent people in the garbage bag that is government. He is ethical and moral and works for the betterment of his constituency without pushing his Muslim faith.
Speaking of aholes: B Maher and J Fetterman spent time pushing the billion dollar taxpayer funded ballsroom as just couch change. WTF
http://www.smirkingchimp.com/thread/sarah-k-burris/116998/couch-money-fetterman-and-bill-maher-defend-cost-of-trump-ballroom
Bingo, my thoughts re Sam Harris exactly. “He had nothing” — and he still doesn’t. He’s been banging the same broken drum for 20+ years. I wasn’t impressed by The End of Faith at the time, and a recent re-reading of the first chapter or so lowered even that low judgement. (BTW: I’ve never seen Harris adequately taken to task for his credulity re reincarnation and Rupert Sheldrake — does anyone know if he’s walked that back?) I recall being in a bit of a minority for taking a more moderate and nuanced attitude towards religion than was popular at the time. PZ seems to have come around closer to my way of thinking. So I get to feel smug ;-). Religion can play a role in radicalization and general nastiness, but the roots are as much social and political. Give people some economic security, some dignity and life prospects, and their religion tends to get moderated or abandoned, no matter what their holy book says.
It truly is embarrassing how self-styled skeptics fail to examine their own biases, and just swallow any old crap that bears the label “Anti-Religion” (against Islam in particular, also Christianity, except that some atheists now cozy up to that because it’s not Islam, which is the bogeyman-du-jour). There’s a certain kind of person for whom atheism is basically the lazy way of fancying themselves the smartest person in the room (because doing that the honest way is out of the question), and an uncritical adulation of Sam Harris et al is a red flag. (Yes, I have a specific individual in mind). Tim O’Neill is also somewhat responsible for disenchanting me with the atheist movement, and Harris has been among his targets.
This comment turned into a brain-dump ;-). To tidy up loose ends:
– Yes, Spouse and I were at the Creation Museum that day. Good times.
– Not enough cat in that video.
@2 raven
My interpretation: Mamdani is a decent fellow who “really” cares about garbage trucks and “helping the city,” but because he is a Muslim people keep asking him questions about things that don’t have a lot to do with being mayor and have a lot to do with Israel and Islam.
I had to look up who Harris is. Sweden has its own humanist philosophers.
The most important was Ingemar Hedenius, who had been criticizing religion and Christianity since 1947.
The big debates were already over by the time I had grown up.
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Regarding islam, my beef has always been the theology, not the immigrant in the food shop. The immigrants will outgrow the religion once they have economic and physical security, just like other Swedes did.
Ingemar Hedenius – Wikipedia
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