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Originally Posted by PepsiFree
Sparingly, if possible.
I just find it curious he doesn’t make a bigger effort to engage with “the left” directly, as opposed to the right, who is very very often given an audience. I’m not posing this as some evidence that Harris is ______, it was in response to Cliff’s “where is the left?” Honest, “rigorous” left leaning thinkers are out there, they just aren’t represented on Harris’s program in a proportionate way, so if you are consuming things in your bubble, you’re going to miss a lot.
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Sam Harris (in a recent subscriber-only "Ask me Anything" podcast) has said more or less the following about why he doesn't feature more people from the "social justice warrior" subgroup of the Left.
"The problem that I'm running into on the Left, and again it's not something that I run into on the Right, is that there are modes of attack that are obviously illegitimate, that are more or less omnipresent on the Left. One of them is what I've come to think of as leftist mind reading. SJW telepathy. Where the person criticizing me is criticizing me for thoughts that he is quite sure that I'm thinking in the privacy of my own mind...This mind reading move is incredibly frustrating. It is unfalsifiable, it breaks the conversation."
And he requests that listeners suggest good people to talk to on the SJW-left, and acknowledges there will be plenty of opportunity for these discussions because the SJW phenomenon is not going away.