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An Outsider’s Perspective on American Culture Wars

The Michael Shermer Show

CHAPTER

The Importance of Soul Searching

I became a trending topic on Turkish Twitter for about a couple of hours. I never saw myself as a victim, but that was the beginning of a process of soul searching and rethinking. The people who were canceling me were not the far right. People who were coming after me were so-called progressives, feminists, trans, LGBTQ rights activists. So I said, okay, there's something going on here. Maybe I shouldn't be looking at the right, but should be looking at what passes as the left.

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