Glenn Greenwald Trashes Sam Harris

Glenn Greenwald posts The Problem with Sam Harris. I have posted negative criticism of Harris many times.

I did not know that Harris had rich Hollywood parents. Or that he had a personal grudge against Greenwald.

What is most striking about Harris is that he pretends to be an anti-religion rationalist, but he recently admitted in an interview that he is an "unapologetic Zionist". That makes him a firm believer in Judaism. He also subscribes to some Buddhist beliefs.

20:21 And Sam Harris is Jewish. He was raised 20:23 Jewish. And he wants you to believe it's 20:24 a coincidence. 20:27 that he's finally at the point in middle 20:29 age where he's willing to admit 20:33 every principle that I've said that I 20:35 have, every principle on which I built 20:36 my career, every principle that 20:38 supposedly defined my brand, that made 20:40 me rich, that created a huge following 20:41 for me, I want you to know I subordinate 20:43 all these principles. I have a huge 20:45 exception to all of them called Israel 20:47 and Zionism.

20:50 And you know what? I'll tell you my the 20:52 one of the things I hate most about Sam 20:54 Harris. The reason why I believe he 20:55 deserves a particular level of disgust. 21:00 I can have a certain baseline respect 21:03 for people who have whatever views they 21:05 have, even if I find them repellent, who 21:07 are honest about those views, who don't 21:10 hide them, who don't pretend that they 21:12 have an agenda 21:14 that's different from their actual 21:16 agenda, 21:18 whose express values and beliefs are 21:21 actually their their values and beliefs, 21:24 and they're willing to stand up and 21:25 defend it. 21:28 Sam Harris is one of the most blatant 21:30 brazen frauds 21:33 ever to present himself as a public 21:34 intellectual.

Greenwald puts his finger on what is so annoying. Harris is adamantly against anyone having sectarian allegiances, except for Jews.

18:20 And we seem to have arrived at this 18:22 consensus, especially after the excesses 18:23 of me too and the Black Lives M matter 18:25 movement that, you know, we've gone way 18:27 too far in that direction. 18:30 A lot of these historic bigotries and 18:32 and repression aren't nearly as strong 18:33 as they've been. They we've made a lot 18:35 of progress from them. There's still 18:36 lingering effects of them, but we've 18:38 made a lot of progress. And maybe the 18:39 best way to move forward isn't to keep 18:42 reinforcing them by dividing everybody 18:43 up into groups and treating them 18:44 differently based on their race or 18:46 gender, sexual identity, but instead or 18:48 religion, or instead say, you know what, 18:51 we're all actually the same, and we're 18:53 going to work to make sure the treatment 18:55 of everybody is the same, but not 18:56 endlessly treat people differently by 18:59 emphasizing their divisions based on 19:01 these demographic characteristics. 19:04 That was certainly a unifying view of 19:06 the right, without doubt.

19:10 And yet there's so many people who claim 19:12 that Sam Harris is one of them who like 19:15 you know what there's one group and only 19:17 one group 19:19 that has a meritorious claim to that 19:23 self victimhood defense 19:27 and that just so happens to be Jews 19:28 which a lot of people creating that 19:30 exception 19:33 happened to be coincidentally like hey 19:35 you know what I can't stand victimhood 19:38 narratives for any other group. It's 19:39 total totally whiny and snowflake 19:42 behavior all fabricated. 19:45 Time to buckle up and 19:48 stop being so frightened and demanding 19:51 safety and your little with your little 19:53 blankets and your therapy dogs. But the 19:57 my group, 19:59 that's the real one that's 20:00 discriminating against. That's what you 20:01 heard uh the host of the show say. It's 20:03 like, yeah, Paris is finally realizing 20:05 like everybody everybody hates us. That 20:07 guy hates us. That guy hates us. 20:08 Anti-semitism is everywhere. And we 20:10 alone are entitled to form sectarian 20:15 allegiances based on our sectarian 20:17 religious identity. But nobody else is 20:19 but we are.

Lots of ethnic groups promote their own group. Jews are unusual in devoting so much energy into dividing and undermining other groups.

Harris is not really anti-religion. He subscribes to core Jewish religious beliefs. All his attacks on Christianity are really just ways of promoting the Jews. All of his attacks on Trump also are just expressing his Jewish beliefs.

I am not attacking his Zionism here. If he want to be pro-Israel, and partisan to his fellow ethnic Jews, that\s fine with me. But he is so incredibly dishonest about it.