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In reply to the discussion: ‘Enlightened’ USA: FBI warns of right wing militia attacks against Muslims [View all]AtheistCrusader
(33,982 posts)I thought he had encouraged genocide at one point, likely based on your enthusiastic misinterpretation of what he wrote. This is the second time I've had to correct my long-term memory/perception of Harris's position.
Pretty sure it's your hyperbolic willful misinterpretation of his claim.
The scope of the statement is right there in the paragraph. I highlighted and bolded it for you.
It doesn't even apply to people who, like much of Afghanistan, simply exist within a state that either actively or passively harbors 'terrorists', which the Bush Doctrine singled out as a fair game to bomb the everloving shit out of.
Obviously emotions were running high when Harris wrote that, and he probably wishes he'd specified the scope inside that sentence, rather than later in the paragraph, but that's not to fix his point, it's to forestall people like you trying to beat him about the head and neck with some shit you took out of context.