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General Category => Politics & Current Affairs => Topic started by: Nearly Sane on November 28, 2016, 02:18:42 PM

Title: Sam Harris - the gateway drug to neo nazism
Post by: Nearly Sane on November 28, 2016, 02:18:42 PM
I have to hope this was written by someone on the far right with a sense of humour because if it's real I want to cut off the writer's arm with a rusty penknife and beat the whinging little sadsack to death with it.



https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/nov/28/alt-right-online-poison-racist-bigot-sam-harris-milo-yiannopoulos-islamophobia?CMP=twt_gu
Title: Re: Sam Harris - the gateway drug to neo nazism
Post by: ad_orientem on November 28, 2016, 02:32:32 PM
Vague, anecdotal and ultimately bollocks.
Title: Re: Sam Harris - the gateway drug to neo nazism
Post by: SqueakyVoice on November 28, 2016, 06:05:49 PM
I have to hope this was written by someone on the far right with a sense of humour because if it's real I want to cut off the writer's arm with a rusty penknife and beat the whinging little sadsack to death wth it.
Really? I read it as a rather good example of how it isn't just computers that suffer from GIGO syndrome.
Title: Re: Sam Harris - the gateway drug to neo nazism
Post by: Free Willy on November 28, 2016, 07:14:57 PM
Is that the same Sam Harris as some guy on the New Scientist seemed to portray as the Father of Religious Neuroscience?
Title: Re: Sam Harris - the gateway drug to neo nazism
Post by: L.A. on November 28, 2016, 10:13:42 PM
The problem is that the internet provides a free conduit for views of every shade of opinion, from the totally Loonie Left to those who consider Hitler a liberal - and sadly, most people are too naive/uneducated/stupid to analyse all this junk - hence Brexit and Trump.