Holy shit, you’re right my mind is boggled. I used to follow both of these guys. I was a subscriber to Sullivan when he first introduced the subscription model for the Dish, and I was pleased as a teenager to receive a reply from Sam Harris when I emailed him my appreciation for The End Of Faith. I’m greatly disappointed that they’re being so ridiculous. Sam Harris says Trump is unironically worse than Hitler? Wtf? So much of what they believe about Trump you can tell is just a result of the most histrionically uncharitable interpretation of some innocuous comment or gesture that wouldn’t raise an eyebrow if exhibited by someone else. It’s incredibly irrational and I expected better of both of these men. You can hear/read the raw emotion in their statements, and the whole schtick of both of these men is that they are unbiased and rational assessors of the cultural landscape. I remember James Lindsay recently said that a large part of the reason that it took him a long time to admit he needed to support trump is because he didn’t want to admit that he had been wrong. It seems that sort of dissonance it at play with Harris and Sullivan (they can admit all the problems with Biden) but they can’t seem to get over their emotional hurdle. Sullivan has always had an irrational bitchy-gay-guy side to him but to see Sam Harris, Mr Atheist, be such a little fucking bitch is something. -10 respect
Gender is just a damn synonym for biological sex that came into use because the word “sex” was just a little risqué. This whole notion of gender as some sort of mental sex-based-but-not-really orientation is one of the most useless and navel-gazing thought experiments ever. I love asking people to define gender and then watch them struggle to give a coherent explanation. “It’s like... how you dress...and think about yourself...and stuff”
You see this all the time don’t you? They fabricate something out of thin air and commit 100% to believing it. Ritterhouse is a good example; there is an abundance of exonerating evidence but they declared him a white nationalist terrorist and act like even suggesting otherwise is obscene blasphemy.
This is why I’ve started to hear SJWs on the cutting edge of bullshit starting to use the term “racialized” instead of “minority” — because whites are in the minority in many urban centres now, and it conveniently allows them to group other high performing groups into the oppressor category.
Fucking hamplanets.