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Originally Posted by simplicitus
Harris is always fine right up until he's not, and once he's not, he's really ****ing bad. Like when he says (paraphrasing) "Liberals are wrong to suggest that xenophobia/racism and economic anxiety are mutually exclusive" that's absolute bull****. The causal link between the latter and the former is a perennial leftist talking point - I mean it's classic Marxist reading of proletarian racism ffs. His position is like claiming that an oncologist who favours chemotherapy over quitting smoking is suggesting that there's no link between smoking and cancer. No, we know there's a link, Sam, it's just that quitting smoking/addressing economic concerns is not going to cure the cancer/stop those individual people from being racist *******s.
I listened a little further on and he starts talking about the need to 'name the problem', which sounds so bizarrely like a certain phrase I could mention, and unironically argues that the failure of various public figures to use certain phrases is like, the biggest problem besetting Western policy as regards terrorism.