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#207 — Can We Pull Back From The Brink?

Making Sense with Sam Harris

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Black Lives Matter Is the Most Visible Symbol of Black Live's Matter

The left is in the midst of a moral panic. People are simply refusing to speak honestly about problem of race and racism in america. And by protesting the wrong thing, even the slightly wrong thing, we're damaging our society. We have to make the political case for major reforms to deal with the problem of inequality. To be just these policies will need to reduce inequality in our society. But it's not at all ear that progress along these dimensions primarily entails us finding and eradicating more racism in our society. What would utter progress look like? Here's what i think it would look like. As i've said in various places, skin color would become like hair color in its political...

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