Dr. Sam Harris
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And insofar as our politics resembles religion, it's awful.
And so I think we need to break the spell of sectarianism and tribalism and identity politics across the board and become much lighter in how we hold these divisions between ourselves and others.
You are positively advantaged being black now.
And this is just a fact.
Whether you want to be black, applying to the best medical schools in the country, or to try to get a job at Netflix, or to get a job with the Ford Foundation.
If you look at the numbers of admissions, the criteria for admissions.
I think everyone will acknowledge at this point that if you have black applicants.
where if it's a toss-up with respect to their qualifications on paper, you know, everyone's got the same scores, they went to, you know, they got the same letters of recommendation, whatever it is, they are desperate to hire black, qualified black employees at every point along the way to run their conferences, to write for their magazines, to edit, etc., etc.
It's just, it's hypocrisy.
I can't say they've shifted much apart from the growing conviction that started fairly early on that atheism as a concept is not one we really need, right?
I was an unconventional atheist in that
When I got inducted into the pantheon of public atheists after I wrote my first book, The End of Faith, I had never visited an atheist website or gone to an atheist conference or really read many atheist books.
And the truth is I never even used the term atheism in my first book, The End of Faith, which is what brought me onto the radar of so many atheists.
Because I just think it's a...
It's a concept we don't need.
I mean, this is a point that I've made many times before, but it's just, you know, to reject astrology, you don't have to become a non-astrologer, right?
You just have to talk about things like reason and common sense and evidence and science, right?
And if astrology ever became ascendant in our society, if you couldn't become president unless you took astrology seriously, you know, we could criticize all that without
forming a political movement around being a non-astrologer, right?
So I just think there's some conceptual confusion in defining atheism as a political identity, although it's understandable that so many people have because atheism is
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