Comments by "justgivemethetruth" (@justgivemethetruth) on "Sam Harris Discusses His Ben Affleck Debate on Real Time with Bill Maher" video.

  1. +EDITHFIVE >> there is such a large percentage of Americans who agree with anything a celebrity says. Not so much. Before this interview I had no problems with Affleck, but no positive feeling about Affleck would have overridden the nutso stuff he was saying about Islam. I'm also thinking that Affleck has to be cool because if he is seen as too activist he is going to have problems with Islam after his movie about the Iranian hostages. This whole interview seemed to me to be a kind of propaganda engineered operation to accomplish something. Something that I mostly agree with and I think went well. Who knows what Affleck believes, but the right point got through in my opinion.
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  2. Maybe Liberals have failed us ... but that is a really poor way to state that because it focused on just one piece of of failure, thus implying that Conservatives have not. This is the same dishonest tactic that Palestinian sympathizers use when they focus only on the damage that Israel defending itself does without providing context of the whole history of the region. I basically agree with Sam, but I still that one piece does that. Islam is 25% of countries ... and those countries are significantly backwards. It is a problem for the developed world, and everyone. Affleck is irrational on this issue.
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  3. On this wacked out issue of Islam in the world and its effect on the world, the minute it gets mentioned it flips people into "reptile mode" where they take a stand, dig in, and everything becomes black and white. No one is thinking at that point, and even though Maher and Harris made their point, the other side is going to be looking at their best defense, and since they have no logical defense it becomes, what is their best claim to get traction .. and it is always racism or islamophobia.
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