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Related: About this forumMy 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
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 Harriss fellow Jews. This is what white supremacy does: It reduces another persons 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
Sam Harris is a disgusting bigot and something of a bad joke in philosophical circles.
YoungDemCA
Jul 2017
#3
Hollandscotts
(14 posts)1. Its also completely wrong.
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.
Not a good perspn for you to lend your spoort.
Alameda
(1,895 posts)2. Thank you
Interesting article. Clearly, Mr. Harris was being disingenuous.