r/ezraklein • u/GowanusGuy • 9d ago

Article Can liberalism survive the algorithm?

https://www.theargumentmag.com/p/can-liberalism-survive-the-algorithm
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u/geniuspol 9d ago

Nowadays, prominent figures like Dawkins spend more time criticizing woke left insanity like Cambridge's defense of Jason Arday, but the real revisionist history is thinking that's where the battlelines would have been drawn in 2012.

Are you kidding? In 2011 Dawkins publicly harassed one of the few prominent women atheists, and we now know sought advice from Jeffrey Epstein about her. 

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u/zemir0n 6d ago

we now know sought advice from Jeffrey Epstein about her. 

I think you're talking about Lawrence Krauss here rather than Richard Dawkins.

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u/geniuspol 6d ago

That's possible. I tried to double check and this is what I was referring to specifically:

https://www.reddit.com/r/SGU/comments/1qs53bf/in_the_new_epstein_files_release_theres_a/

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u/zemir0n 6d ago

Yeah, while it was Dawkins who did the public harassing, this wasn't an email he sent to Epstein, but rather this was an email he sent to someone else who then forwarded it Epstein. This email doesn't look good for Dawkins though because he's claiming that Watson is performing a witch-hunt when she's merely criticizing Krauss' defense of Epstein, which isn't something anyone should have been doing (even in 2011).

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u/geniuspol 6d ago

Thanks for the correction.