One of the painful signs of years of dumbed-down education is how many people are unable to make a coherent argument. They can vent their emotions, question other people's motives, make bold assertions, repeat slogans—anything except reason.
That debate was garbage but this is the actual transcript of the white supremacy exchange. Trump didn't "refuse" to denounce white supremacy, as much of the media is now saying. Look at his first reply.
Sure, take issue with how he handled the q, but don't misinform people.
Abraham Lincoln once asked an audience how many legs a dog has if you count the tail as a leg. When they answered “five,” Lincoln told them that the answer was four. The fact that you called the tail a leg did not make it a leg.
It’s easy to stand against sins of the past and proclaim what the church should have done.
It’s much harder to stand against today’s sins and proclaim what the church should be doing.
@wotm_newsletter @buster_g_ @Annefy1@SamHarrisOrg@Bmofuni You’re shifting the goalposts, his podcast had nothing to do with drugs or drug arrests. Focus on the topic at hand, then we can move on and continue. As he said in his video, there ARE issues that need to be addressed - with a proper narrative we can have that discussion.
@wotm_newsletter @SamHarrisOrg@Bmofuni Sam went above and beyond saying that the protesters were peaceful. He said the videos of cops attacking the protestors and allowing the looting to happen were disgusting. I think he might have hit one of those tripwires he was talking about. Facts don’t change, emotions do.
@tophat7819@av@BharatRamamurti@itsjoekent Notice they don’t have Asian Americans on ANY of these graphs. It’s cuz they average more than whites but that would ruin the narrative...