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Welcome to atheistically speaking this is episode 195 and I'm your host Thomas Smith. All right long-awaited part two with Eli or if you're a patron

not so long awaited.

So good for you.

In any case, here it is, part two.

I'll go right into it and then I'll probably say a few things to you afterward. If I had to try to put my finger on what people are perceiving as the real threat, because you're right, I mean, it's no skin off my back to just sit there for 10 seconds while someone says trigger

warning this I think what people are worried about and it goes back to something you

said before I think both sides are straw manning as you said both sides are responding to the

extreme other side when in reality I imagine most people are somewhere in the

middle but they're just kind of perceiving whichever side you perceive is like the more of the threat, you kind of just look at those straw man, you know, incidents and then and say that represents the entire other side.

Right, absolutely.

With the trigger warning thing,

I think people are worried that it becomes this.

There are a lot of people maybe to,

and I don't want a straw man myself,

but I think there are a lot of people who are worried

it's becoming an Orwellian thing where the other side the the progressives or regressive as they say

are always trying to get one step ahead with what is a trigger,

with what you need to be aware as a trigger.

And this is, I don't think this is a straw man, I think this is actually what what's going on and it's up to us

whether we want to agree or disagree here and we can talk about it but I think that's

what's going on they're worried that there's a professor who's going to lose

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