Fighting Fire with Ire: 3 Lessons from Noam Chomsky’s Takedown of Sam Harris
…or calling time out,” Coates states, “it exposes itself as a ruse.” Similarly, for Chomsky to politely return to the philosophical premise of Harris’s choosing would be to ignore the larger context that makes his arguments flawed in the first place. The Take-Away: Calls for “civil discourse” ought to be criticized and ignored if such civility would exclude facts and perspectives necessary for questioning dominant powers. 3. Drop the Mic on Your Wa…
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