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#230 — An Insurrection of Lies

Making Sense with Sam Harris

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Is This Black Cop Shooting a White Boy?

It's a half truth, and a slightly paradoxical one when you look at the details. When something is this easy to see and it isn't being seen, you really have to worry about what's happening in our culture. It would be wrong even if it were right, even if it were obviously true. But there are so many ways to see that it is probably not true. At best. This double standard was operative there. He would have shot a black rioter and not a white one....

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