RE: I Used To Be A Fan But I Am Now Shocked, Disgusted And Appalled With Sam Harris
May 27, 2017 at 4:36 pm
(May 27, 2017 at 4:06 pm)Moros Synackaon Wrote:(May 27, 2017 at 3:28 pm)SteelCurtain Wrote: I think his point (Murray) is that the regressive response to disagreement by progressives gets often taken way too far, where it's not even about disagreement, it's about punishment.
You sort of proved his point here, Hammy.
What possible punishment are we claiming Ham asked for? I got lost in the meandering paragraphs which centered on a "On one hand, ... On the other hand..." pattern.
Not necessarily legal punishment, but personal, retributive punishment for not toeing the progressive line. I get not being a fan anymore, but this is the ideological purism that is going to give us Donald Trump for 8 years. It is toxic in the liberal movement, I think.
The left will nominate someone who is 90-95% progressive, but once voted against party lines or isn't a proponent of one cause, and they will be demonized by a sector of progressives as not good enough, and hatred will brew, meanwhile the right sits back and votes along party lines because the numbers dictate it.
"There remain four irreducible objections to religious faith: that it wholly misrepresents the origins of man and the cosmos, that because of this original error it manages to combine the maximum servility with the maximum of solipsism, that it is both the result and the cause of dangerous sexual repression, and that it is ultimately grounded on wish-thinking." ~Christopher Hitchens, god is not Great
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