I used to like him, and (in theory) would love to read his book "how not to be wrong". (No need - I can get an AI summary!
Key takeaways from How Not to Be Wrong
- Self-reflection is civic duty
- Examine your own hurtful opinions
- Uncover the origins of your beliefs
- Challenge unconscious biases
- Move beyond winning arguments
- Embrace change as a process)
Now I can't listen to him for more than a few seconds, literally.
So, James, have you?
Self-reflected on why people (sex realists and brexiteers especially) hate you so much?
Exaine your hurtful opinion that women do not deserve rights?
Uncovered the origin of your opinion that men can be women?
Challenged you unconscious biases (not least against sex realists and people who oppose mass immigration)?
Considered that listening and reflecting to others, instead of silencing them and smugly sitting there believing you have won the argument?
Considered that changing from "smug public school knob who hates fat people and stupid people (aka "ordinary people") was only part of the process, and that maybe you could change into someone who doesn;t hate women?
He is appalling on every single level, but the fact that he claims to believe all these things because he reflected once and became a slightly better man than he was a a teenage public schoolboy is just nuts.