Sam Harris on the left’s racial derangement syndrome [14:25]: “You have to go all the way to the neo-Nazis to find people on the right who are as vocal about the salience of race and racial differences [as people on the left are]. It’s patently crazy in my view.

“There are many ways to come at this but what’s wrong with identity politics, to come back to the Daniel Penny-Jordan Neely case…if you described a situation on a subway car in which a violently deranged and threatening person has entered a subway car and terrified everyone including women and children, and another man, at some risk to himself and at obvious risk of future prosecution, stood up and tried to pacify the aggressive person, at first using a minimum amount of force but because of a lack of perfect skill winds up injuring or even killing the aggressor…

“If you describe this situation to left-of-center people, and I mean just a step left-of-center, these are people who don’t know how they feel as you describe this situation…they don’t know how to feel about it unless you tell them the skin colors of the people involved. And if you swap the skin colors…the white-skinned Penny being the aggressor and Neely being the man who tries to restrain him and winds up killing him, they feel a different way…these markers of identity are incredibly salient for them morally.”