Sam Harris Vs BBC on Racism

I own nothing, I am invisible.

[harryrobertson]

"Who are you to tell black Americans how to feel?" and then Mr BBC goes on to explain what Black people really feel.

[xytras]

"If you're gonna find racists everywhere, you're gonna find the real racists nowhere."

That's kind of a powerful line.

[katynewt]

"You are too logical so let's change the subject..."

[JBTFan]

Stephen Sackur's estimated net worth $1 - $5 million dollars. Sam Harris estimated net worth $2 million dollars

Stephen Sakur: we are both middle class

[jakedee]

Did Stephen Sackur just say to Sam Harris "who are you to tell black people how to feel ?" and then Tell Sam Harris how black people really feel ?
Nice self awareness Mr BBC

[Dnmac]

Why does Sam Harris look like a GTA character in this video

[nooneofconsequence]

"You claim to be rational and not persuaded by emotion over evidence. My emotion-based ideas have just made me feel uncomfortable at you bringing up evidence that contradicts them, so let me totally ignore the extremely important and telling fact you raised, quickly shift the topic to other data points that I think validates my emotions so I can go on believing that my emotion-based ideas are supported by evidence."

[Galaxy]

It's fascinating how listening to Sam Harris is amazing even when he's talking to a wall

[zonianfjb]

Stephen Sakur has never impressed me as an interviewer. That trend continues.

[chanpluschayne]

This is painful to watch. Sam is one of the few intellectuals still publicly sharing sane views on this topic (and many others). There’s a reason why both the hard left and right don’t like him - because he’s rational. People need to grow up

[godbyelebenohnegott]

A very telling point: Sam Harris cites statistics, and the interviewer immediately accuses him of a lack of compassion. Facts don't count?

[bryankinney]

well, that was a terrible waste of sam's time...

[johnthorpe]

Douglas Murray: "There is a great of demand for racists these days but there is a supply problem". ( I know, we'll just redefine it. )

[craiggrocott]

Sam argued on facts and statistics, the BBC was having non of that, simply focusing on emotion and white self loathing.

[sarinat]

"Who are you to tell black Americans how to feel?"
Missing the point so completely he might as well have been listening to the wall behind Sam. He's not "telling black Americans how to feel". He's questioning whether or not the facts support the actual reality claimed, which is that there is a completely disproportionate amount of force used by police against black people, and the source of that disproportion is racism. "Feeling" that some event was racist doesn't actually prove it WAS racist. And it is HARMFUL to throw racism accusations around willy-nilly.

[firstandforever]

Sam Harris: “Author and Philosopher”

Sam’s PhD in neuroscience: “Am i a joke to you?”

[RobManser]

A good example of a major problem we have in the UK, particularly with the BBC, where interviewers are only interested in conflict, rather than extracting an interviewee's point and exploring it. People like Stephen Sakur, and the BBC, desperately need to understand that they are not presenting their point of view and squeezing and squashing other people's opinions through that, they are supposed to be the conduit for other people's points of view.

[aafgahfah]

BBC: Who are you to tell black people how to feel?

Sam Harris: ok let’s look at emotionally neutral facts.

BBC: why are you using evidence, it’s so unfeeling!

[jaygerlach]

The amount of "narrative" engineering is disgusting from the BBC.

[jessekippola]

Notice how interviewer ignores Sams insight at the end about "a man defying the cops and reaching into car" 10:30. He immediately changes subject.