RE: I Used To Be A Fan But I Am Now Shocked, Disgusted And Appalled With Sam Harris
May 31, 2017 at 10:35 am
(This post was last modified: May 31, 2017 at 10:41 am by Edwardo Piet.)
(May 31, 2017 at 9:27 am)Crunchy Wrote:Quote:Hammy Wrote:
Yes lots was said. Including transgender people being referred to as "weirdos" while his friend laughs along and agrees.
Well that's the point I made. You can't just cherry pick out one part of a rant.
That's not cherry-picking. Cherry-picking is when you throw out the parts you don't agree with and only focus on the parts you agree with. i.e. exactly what you're doing.
I'm recognizing the parts I don't agree with and consider bigoted; not ignoring them.
(May 31, 2017 at 9:27 am)Crunchy Wrote: And to pretend to know what is in someone's mind when they are laughing at a long rant that contains more than one idea is poor reasoning and in the long run, that type of behavior will rob the words transphobic and racist of their meaning. Those are strong accusations that require strong evidence, they're not labels to be applied on an assumption of intent.
You're just burying your head in the sand about complicity in the face of bigotry. If we agree that referring to transgender people as "weirdos" is bigoted and we agree that it's bigoted to be complicit in the face of bigotry then we agree that Sam Harris is being bigoted.
The reason why you agree with premises that entail a conclusion but you deny the conclusion is simply because, like many people, you're terrible at logic and full of bias.
