The Immorality of the Jews

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How can any values be shown to be objective? It helps to start with some very simple examples. Think about kindness versus cruelty. Kindness is objectively more reliable promoter of shared welfare than cruelty is. A sutistic just put a fine point on that with an example. So the right of a white supremisis to march and say, the jews will not replace us should be legally protected as long as no violence ensues from his march. Ah, but that doesn't mean we shouldn't stand up and say, no, you're wrong about this. Your beliefs about the jews are simply wrong. And worse than wrong, they're really immoral. And here's why they

Astonishingly irrational ideas are spreading. COVID-19 denial, anti-vaxxers compromising public health, conspiracy thinking hijacking minds and inciting mob violence, toxic partisanship cleaving our nations, the return of Flat Earth theory… What the heck is going on? Why is all this happening, and why now? More important, what can we do about it? Does our “right to our opinion” trump our responsibilities? Does the resulting ethos effectively compromise mental immune systems, allowing “mind parasites” to overrun them? Are conspiracy theories, evidence-defying ideologies, and garden-variety bad ideas all species of mind parasites, each of which employs clever strategies to circumvent mental immune systems? In this conversation, based on the book Mental Immunity, Andy Norman shows that minds and cultures have immune systems, and that they really can break down. Fortunately, he assures us that they can also be built up: strengthened against ideological corruption. Can his ideas revolutionize our capacity for critical thinking?