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#265 — The Religion of Anti-Racism

Making Sense with Sam Harris

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Is It Easier to Exaggerate?

Oceso: The educated america is taught to exaggerate. That can only happen when things are pretty good, which means that there's an awful lot of mendacity going on. Only then can you develop a recreational victimization complex - and this is not just black people. We're being encouraged now to think of that larval state one psychology as something that you're supposed to stop at or return to. I don't like being told that we're supposed to be immature. And that's what a lot of this is. It wasn't real. In fact, it doesn't even pretend to try to achieve anything. Trying to be pragmatic is identigrated as i think the term

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