Like I quoted it in the other thread but dudeoflife is running his mouth like he isn't the stupid trolling side here. But he is.
So I'll link it now,
https://www.vox.com/2018/4/9/1721024...script-podcast
And what I want to draw everyone's attention to because it's such a telling small thing:
"Sam Harris
...I felt this article was totally unfair. It accused us of peddling junk science and pseudoscience and pseudo scientific racialist speculation and trafficking in dangerous ideas. Murray got the worse of it, but at minimum, I’m painted as a total ignoramus, right? One line said while I have a PhD in neuroscience I appear to be totally ignorant of facts that are well known to everyone in the field of intelligence studies.
Ezra Klein
I think you should quote the line. I don’t think that’s what the line said.
Sam Harris
The quote is, this is the exact quote: “Sam Harris appeared to be ignorant of facts that were well known to everyone in the field of intelligence studies.” Now that’s since been quietly removed from the article, but it was there and it’s archived.
[I went back and looked into this and, as far as I can tell, the original quote that Harris is referring to is this one: “Here, too briefly, are some facts to ponder — facts that Murray was not challenged to consider by Harris, who holds a PhD in neuroscience, although they are known to most experts in the field of intelligence.” Here is the first archived version of the piece if you want to compare it with the final. — Ezra]"
Literally the same dynamic, where Klein, generously, nicely, ever so civilly tried to alert Harris to the fact that his core ****ing grievance over the article didn't happen, that he was allowing his personal poor reading skills to invent insults... and despite Klein trying to clue him in Harris confidently asserted an exact quote that literally did not appear. And Harris, apparently vaguely self-aware enough realize that the line wasn't there, INVENTED THAT IT WAS EDITED OUT. The man is just really ****ing dumb, guys, he's a stupid thin skinned ******* who 100% believes black people are stupider than white people.