Sam Harris podcast: Beyond the Politics of Race

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Re: Sam Harris podcast: Beyond the Politics of Race

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Pwns wrote:https://samharris.org/podcasts/134-beyo ... tics-race/

Interesting podcast with an undergrad at Columbia (a black guy BTW) who has taken a lot of heat basically writing on Quillette that (among other things) racism and slavery cannot account for all of the wealth gap that exists between blacks and whites.

Essentially, the left has made it taboo to say social gaps between white people and black people are due to anything other than past and present white racism. Even people who are liberal should see a big problem with that and question whether it will actually do black people any good, but Harris has been taking a lot of heat in Twitter for this and will probably get a lot more.

It seems there's a lot of people on the left that are all about evidence-based and data-driven policy until one of their sacred cows are standing in the way.

I thought we taught them darkies everything they needed to know about free enterprise at Tulsa, back in '21... :coffee:
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Re: Sam Harris podcast: Beyond the Politics of Race

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houndawg wrote:
Pwns wrote:https://samharris.org/podcasts/134-beyo ... tics-race/

Interesting podcast with an undergrad at Columbia (a black guy BTW) who has taken a lot of heat basically writing on Quillette that (among other things) racism and slavery cannot account for all of the wealth gap that exists between blacks and whites.

Essentially, the left has made it taboo to say social gaps between white people and black people are due to anything other than past and present white racism. Even people who are liberal should see a big problem with that and question whether it will actually do black people any good, but Harris has been taking a lot of heat in Twitter for this and will probably get a lot more.

It seems there's a lot of people on the left that are all about evidence-based and data-driven policy until one of their sacred cows are standing in the way.

I thought we taught them darkies everything they needed to know about free enterprise at Tulsa, back in '21... :coffee:
You're not being very helpful dawg...

:lol:

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Re: Sam Harris podcast: Beyond the Politics of Race

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Chizzang wrote:
houndawg wrote:

I thought we taught them darkies everything they needed to know about free enterprise at Tulsa, back in '21... :coffee:
You're not being very helpful dawg...

:lol:

This is a thread about healing and deeper understanding
:mrgreen:

I was referring to the Tulsa slaughter of 1921. Wasn't any wage gap there and it didn't set too well with white folk.
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