On Thursday, The New York Times ran a letter tearing into Bari Weiss’ excellent column about the so-called Intellectual Dark Web. That letter, from Berkeley engineer Susan Fowler, suggested that the reason so many members of the IDW have been excised from open discussion is because their ideas are so toxic. First, she attacked Sam Harris, suggesting — without even bothering to quote him — that he’s in favor of racial profiling. Then she goes after me:
[O]ne of the conservative commentator Ben Shapiro’s “dangerous” ideas is that “Arabs like to bomb crap and live in open sewage.” This idea is not discussed because we collectively agree that it is wrong — and not merely wrong insofar as it is not factual but insofar as it is unapologetically racist.
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