02 - Sarah Haider - Separating Ideas from People

Tea for Two: A podcast about politics, culture and society and about how everyone is wrong except us. With Iona Italia, Helen Pluckrose and guests.

Episode 2: Sarah Haider

More on Sarah's organisation, Ex Muslims of North America, can be found here: http://exmuslims.org. You can follow Sarah Haider on Twitter, https://www.twitter.com/SarahTheHaider.

You'll also find her published articles in the online magazine, Free Inquiry. Sarah's talks have been featured on YouTube.

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2:17 Why Sarah hates the term community
11:15 The different types of atheists
15:00 Cleaning up the left, why we focus on that
23:32 Atheists in India
25:00 Arguments that now’s not the time to stick to certain principles because we need to fight Trump
27:00 Intersectionality and the prioritising of certain groups over others
28:21 Opposing both racism & Islamic extremism
28:57 The Left and Islam
33:56 Insincerity in dialogue, language as signalling
45:17 Separating ideas from people in the case of Muslims
49:05 The Intellectual Dark Web
55:47 The risks of honesty and activism—Sarah’s experience of the smears & taints that come with that. The temptation to join a tribe.
1:07:29 Sarah on genetic differences, race & the idea of human dignity
1:10 Science, ethics and how to use data; dealing with embarrassing facts
1:15 Second-generation Muslims in the US versus in Europe
1:17 The melting pot versus the mosaic model of integration: immigrants and identity, including Sarah’s own experiences
1:26 Sarah’s own relationship to religion