Sam Harris

You might think that was a horrific evil.

It wasn't a genocide, and no one calls it a genocide.

We vaporized 100,000 people instantaneously, and then we killed another 100,000 slowly by radiation poisoning and fire and infection.

No one calls that a genocide.

No serious person calls that a genocide.

And no human rights organization calls that a genocide.

Amnesty International does not call that a genocide.

But do you know what they call the war in Gaza?

A genocide, right?

So that's the moral confusion.

We know our dropping atomic bombs on Japan wasn't a genocide because what did we do after Japan surrendered?

We went in there and we occupied them and we rebuilt their society.

And by 1952, when we left, they had ceased to be our enemies.

They were our allies, right?

At no point did anyone think that our goal was to eradicate the world of Japanese people, right?

So that's what a genocide is, the eradication project.

And the fact that people are confused about what this word means is culturally appalling.

But this confusion has been engineered by people who know what they're doing.

This is my problem with the Hassan Pikers of the world and the people who influence him.

And it's a problem with the Zoran Mamdani's of the world, which I'm sure we'll get to.