Welcome to the Making Sense Podcast.

This is Sam Harris.

Okay, well, it seems like I got into trouble

in a housekeeping I did for the Judea Pearl Podcast.

I recorded that in the immediate aftermath

of the mass shootings in the US,

and El Paso and Dayton.

Many people sent me emails and tweets suggesting

that I look at my subreddit,

which apparently has been going haywire

for quite some time.

I think half the people in my subreddit despise me.

So it's a perpetual state of war there.

But my comments on the mass shootings

and white supremacy, white nationalism, racism, et cetera,

seem to have caused people to go fairly berserk there.

So I looked into this, I don't usually look at Reddit.

I couldn't get very far.

I mean, honestly, it was like looking at one's own

colonoscopy if done by a madman.

Not a pretty sight.

Some people were defending me.

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