SIO58: Yes, Call Out Assholes (Including me, if you see it that way)

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Thomas Smith

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🗓️ 13 July 2017

⏱️ 70 minutes

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The first portion of this show, as referenced at the end of last episode, is about Peter Boghossian finally showing himself to be a sexist asshole. I also respond to the argument I frequently see of "Stop infighting, stop calling out atheist leaders, it distracts from our movement!" I think I have a good counter to that. After that, it's some amazing and difficult voicemails! Really top notch calls. I love hearing from you guys and being challenged! Some links: African American Vernacular English; The Word "Thug"; The Cornrows Incident Come to the Inciting Incident 100th show! I'll be there with Andrew and many of your other podcasting faves! Leave Thomas a voicemail! (916) 750-4746, remember short and to the point! Support us on Patreon at: patreon.com/seriouspod Follow us on Twitter: @seriouspod Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/seriouspod For comments, email [email protected] Direct Download

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0:00.0	You're listening to serious inquiries only. Oh, Hello and welcome to episode number 58 of Serious Inquiries Only with your host Thomas Smith.
0:35.0	All right, today as promised amazing voicemails to get to.
0:39.0	I love doing these shows.
0:40.7	There's some really good topics and including by the way tune in later stay tuned
0:45.2	rather because there's an incredibly critical voicemail of the show and it's I'm gonna take it on I'm gonna play it in its entirety and it's a good
0:56.0	counter argument worth considering and I think I have found my way navigating through it and I'm excited to get to that but it's it's a
1:06.1	harsh message you should hear it also as promised Peter Burgosian has in fact gone insane so I did promise I would cover that a little bit I'm not going to spend too much time on it don't worry
1:17.2	but there are some tweets and comments he's made that are ridiculous sexist
1:22.1	disgusting in a way it's good he's finally just being are ridiculous, sexist, disgusting.
1:23.4	In a way, it's good he's finally just being outward about it
1:26.0	and showing his true colors.
1:27.2	So we're gonna cover that very briefly
1:29.8	and then get to some excellent calls and messages. Before I go on this little adventure, I want to tell you about a counter argument I hear from a
1:45.9	vocal minority of people a lot of people whenever and this applies blanket across the board this isn't just you know on individual level
1:55.2	whenever you or me or any of us we all anyone whenever we're criticizing
2:01.9	visible atheists in the community in any way in any way be
2:05.4	at Sam Harris be it whoever you know whoever it is we get people who chime in hey
2:11.6	stop doing the stop the inf, stop the infighting,
2:13.4	stop the infighting, focus on what we have in common, the movement,
2:16.4	we need, we believe in secularism, we believe in atheism,
2:19.4	we can't detract from that by infighting. And I was thinking about that, I was reflecting on that, and it just strikes me how horrifically bad of an argument that is. I mean, imagine if Republicans did that right now and they are in fact you would not want your
2:36.5	opponents engaging in this behavior every Republican in Congress virtually right now is is doing
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