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I Used To Be A Fan But I Am Now Shocked, Disgusted And Appalled With Sam Harris
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RE: I Used To Be A Fan But I Am Now Shocked, Disgusted And Appalled With Sam Harris

(May 28, 2017 at 1:39 pm)Khemikal Wrote: @Crunchy

I bet it feels like that to a bigot, but, it would...wouldn't it?

Wink

Personally, bigotry isn't a deal breaker for me, regarding friendship.  I'd have been a lonely, lonely person if it were.  My bigoted buddies know that I think they're a bigot, I've got lots of jokes.

By your own definitions you're the biggest bigot on this site, and (again by your line of reasoning) that makes you a racist as well. Don't try to deny it.

Quote:Hammy Wrote:
It's not. It's his complicit laughter in the face of statements that transgender people are "weirdos" or men with penises, that makes him an ignorant bigot. 

It's beyond obvious that both him and Murray think this is acceptable. It's far from funny. It's indefensible.

This is the heart of where we disagree. "complicit laughter" is how you see it but that doesn't mean it's how it is. People laugh at all kinds of inappropriate humor without supporting the racism/sexism/pedophilia etc... implied in the joke. Even if you yourself don't like the joke or don't find it funny.

With Harris, there are way more than enough statements/books/ interviews of him in the past to show that he is a liberal in accepting all types of humans including gays into the family of humanity. So suddenly he's been outdated as transphobic because of a chuckle? IMO it just doesn't fit.
I am willing to reconsider any of this if anyone can show me some actual transphobic statements from Harris.
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RE: I Used To Be A Fan But I Am Now Shocked, Disgusted And Appalled With Sam Harris - by Crunchy - May 29, 2017 at 10:06 am

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