Harris faces the twin handicaps of relying on reason and empiricism in a social media environment that is hostile to both. It seems that thinkers like Harris and Steven Pinker catch even more flack from the left than they would if they were actually right-wing. The ideologues who dominate social discourse these days tend to be so passionately partisan, and so obsessed with their enemies in the opposite camp, that they can't get their heads around the notion of social debate that doesn't hew to the conventional left vs right dogma.
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