I stopped paying attention a long time ago. But I'm shocked that Richard Dawkins would have an opinion this bad. I'm also shocked that FB gives a fuck about transphobia now.
This was always going to be Richard Dawkins’ path. Over the past few years he’s really leaned into it though and now he knows where to get for his toast.
A few months ago Dawkins was calling himself “culturally Christian” to show that he was against the Ramadamification of Christmas in Br*tain.
It was never about atheism, science, rationality, or enlightenment values. It was about otherizing non-white (edit: and non-cis people) people in Europe and “The West.” It’s why the new atheists got popular after 9/11 and why nobody blinked when people like Sam Harris were going around calling for nuclear first strikes against “the Muslim world.”
Every time someone says "the New Atheists were right and I miss them" regarding some religious fundamentalist issue or another, I want to redirect them toward the actual New Atheists, where they stand, and demand to see where their ideological aims and their goals for society are that much different, or better.
Every time someone says "the New Atheists were right and I miss them" regarding some religious fundamentalist issue or another, I want to redirect them toward the actual New Atheists, where they stand, and demand to see the material difference in their aims and goals.
Richard Dawkins read Imane Khalif’s genome sequencing analysis out of a hat that he swears exists and is true but none of us are allowed to see it because God would be mad about it.
Dawkins is such a fucking dork. At least when he was just a loud atheist, it was funny watching Christians clutch pearls but this "only 2 genders" era of him is just fucking cringe.
I think this a lot about of celebs that don't know how to shut up. Like, Rowling could have made Harry Potter, raked in millions and then disapppeared into obscurity instead of becoming Twitter's transphobia poster child.
Rigid species boundaries are nonsense but rigid sexual boundaries are so real!! What about the actual complexities of chromosomes?? Anything that refutes my position is a disorder and therefore doesn’t count!! Why? Because it doesn’t fit my position!!