> BLM is a big sect of the religion and they are pointing out a legitimate problem. Larry Elder likes to ask 'show me the racism' and it's hard to do but the on

> BLM is a big sect of the religion and they are pointing out a legitimate problem. Larry Elder likes to ask 'show me the racism' and it's hard to do but the one I really enjoy. I can claim only an imperfect familiarity with either figure's views, but my impression is that Adolph L. Reed Jr and Larry Elder take rather different approaches to the issue of racism. Elder is an individualist conservative who says that (by and large) people are victims, not of systematic oppression by others, but rather of their own bad decisions. Unlike Elder, Reed views poor Black Americans as victims of systemic oppression – a point at which his views are much closer to BLM's than to Elder's – but while BLM views that oppression as primarily race-based, Reed argues that it is instead primarily class-based. Many right-wing critics accuse BLM of being "Marxist", but BLM is actually a long way from genuine Marxism; the contrary position which Reed espouses is arguably much more faithful to the classic Marxist tradition. > Sam Harris is a far left atheist. Sam Harris has never been "far left". The far left are people such as Marxists (by which I mean real Marxists, not groups such as BLM which some on the right label as "Marxism" but which have only a rather tenuous connection to actual Marxism), Leninists, Trotskyists, Stalinists, Maoists, anarcho-socialists/anarcho-communists/anarcho-syndicalists, etc. For the 2016 Democratic primaries, Sam Harris endorsed Hillary Clinton over Bernie Sanders – one of the reasons he gave, was that he was confident Clinton would continue established US foreign policy, whereas Sanders was likely to overturn it. Nobody on the "far left" would have ever said such a thing. Sam Harris' fundamental political orientation has always been center-left, with emphasis on the word "center" – like many on the center-left, his positions on certain issues (such as foreign policy or economics) often have a great deal in common with those of the center-right. I'm also not sure what his being an atheist has to do with anything. You will find atheists at both extremes of the political spectrum, and every possible point in-between – and the same is true of theists too.