sadmanbarty
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The Hitchslap as a precursor to ‘Ben Shapiro DESTROYS’.
Antitheism as a precursor to shifting emphasis from political and economic issues to cultural ones .
One of the first internet public intellectuals in a way- amassing audiences on YouTube and that (obviously he had a huge one before too).
That slight edge of being almost a self-help role model. A Hitchens fan would want to drink and swear like him. They’d want to emulate him in a way that Buckley/Chomsky/Gore Vidal, etc. fans wouldn’t do them. You get that with Jordan Peterson fans I think.
The Sam Harris connection.
I don’t know if he did any singling out Islam as uniquely bad relative to other religions.
Antitheism as a precursor to shifting emphasis from political and economic issues to cultural ones .
One of the first internet public intellectuals in a way- amassing audiences on YouTube and that (obviously he had a huge one before too).
That slight edge of being almost a self-help role model. A Hitchens fan would want to drink and swear like him. They’d want to emulate him in a way that Buckley/Chomsky/Gore Vidal, etc. fans wouldn’t do them. You get that with Jordan Peterson fans I think.
The Sam Harris connection.
I don’t know if he did any singling out Islam as uniquely bad relative to other religions.