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• FauxPseudo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Given your unwillingness to accept that you aren’t as informed on the topic as you think you are I can see why you have the ideas you do.

  Sam Harris has never been part of the rationalist or skeptical culture. He is much better known in the atheist and the “intellectual dark web”. In the skeptical community he is generally regarded as a close minded person who is too busy kissing the butt of people like Ben Shapiro and selling meditation.

  Even before Elevatorgate Dawkins was on the outs for being a sexist & misogynist who was contributing nothing to the movement except harm. If you are using him as an example you are operating on information that is more than a decade out of date and it might be time to update your priors.

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  • zqps@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    “I utilize a narrower definition of the word, shame you are too closed-minded to comprehend that I’m right.”

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    • FauxPseudo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Don’t you find it’s usually better to frame your opponent’s position in terms they would agree with? You’re using skepticism in a way that does not comport with today’s use by the community. Community exchange over time. Community exchange over time.

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      • zqps@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        The community’s use isn’t the point of reference to use here. It is also obviously biased, because the community understandably seeks to avoid association with these people.

        It’s not crazy or outlandish to recognize Harris or Dawkins as skeptics in the common use of the term. It’s core to their branding whether you like it or not. That’s what matters when you talk to people outside the community, not the insular definition you treat as objective fact.

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