Filed with Politics MOC · Related: Ideology & Foundations · 60.10 Argumentation
- You can always find a crazy PhD who has a hobby horse to say whatever you want to say
- Example: Cigarette companies with PhD’s saying nicotine is not addictive in front of Congress
- People scared about the backlash from that are a minority
- Social media distortion; Thinking everyone agrees because they see it on social media
- Example: Most celebrities don’t want to support Israel or are scared when 75% of Americans support Israel
- Social media wants you to be terrified of the world and racist both ways
- Lethal police violence distortion
- confirmed fatal police shootings of unarmed African-Americans number about 22 per year
- Lethal police violence distortion
- Weaponizing the high integrity values of a culture ^b57bf5
- Freedom of thought
- Refugees
- Tolerance of diversity
- Western source code easily hacked
- At the core of our ethical integrity
- Being done by Islamists
- Greater effect in Western Europe
- Examples
- al-Qaeda caught and put into prison and claim to be tortured and Amnesty International would gum up the whole situation
- Enemies would torture themselves with their own ethical scruples and they’d laugh about this
- al-Qaeda caught and put into prison and claim to be tortured and Amnesty International would gum up the whole situation
Sam Harris
All of these awful experiments that we’ve seen, communism being salient, but obviously fascism and all these variances that we are right not to want. What we have coming over the transom and up through the floor is a political movement and a religious tidal wave of conviction coming into Western society, which is using our values against us. Our values of tolerance, openness, wanting to help, and self-criticism, where we have looked back on our history of colonialism, racism, and all of our tendencies to xenophobia and selfishness. We have grown sufficiently embarrassed by that, rightly so, and critical of that, rightly so, and not disposed to ever make those mistakes again, rightly so.
Now we have genuine bad actors who know that whenever they merely use the term racism, it settles all arguments, at least left of center in our politics. You just call someone a racist, and you’ve won; you’ve revealed them to be a racist, and you’ve won the argument. We have Islamist stealth groups in every Western society, certainly in America and the UK, really trying to advance a theocratic agenda. We have Qatar, which is literally the largest funder of universities in Britain and America now, more than any other country on Earth. Qatar is governed by a theology that comes straight out of the Muslim Brotherhood. All of this is insidious and is in part what explains the frank delusion of our ostensibly most educated kids in the country.
In the immediate aftermath of October 7th, literally before Israel had done anything in response, this has nothing to do with dead babies in Gaza. This has to do with a knee-jerk reaction against Israel being the bad guys, even when you had over a thousand people, innocent for the most part peace activists, murdered in their bedrooms at dawn by a genocidal death cult. Our smartest kids, who are spending $9,000 a year on tuition, couldn’t figure out who the bad guys were on October 7th. We are the victim of a kind of scope, and it’s our own values that are being weaponized against us.
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Democracy + Capitalism + Political Freedom = Engine of Wealth and creativity
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