Can We Pull Back From The Brink? (Episode #207)

Why HN readers recommended it

HN commenters recommend it as a data-oriented discussion of race and police shootings.

This is a summary from the source dataset, not an endorsement by Hacker News or the video creator.

Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel

Sam Harris

Topic

police violence and race

Format

podcast

Level

general

HN recommenders in dataset

4

HN mentions in dataset

5

Recommendation years in dataset

2020–2021

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From the original HN conversations

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• Sam Harris did an excellent podcast (in my opinion) touching on the topics you mentioned. [VIDEO] or text [LINK]

• >Our media is destroying the USA. I think this is incredibly true. And it is spreading to other parts of the world. There is a lot of sensationalism, around black lives matter protests, and very little objective analysis of the "problem". It seems incredibly irresponsible …

• > The BLM protests were in response to a real, meaningful threat actually, your two examples are very alike in the "things that did not happen" category. the murder of George floyd was negligent at best and malicious at worst, but racist cops killing blacks …