From my future self in 9/18/24.
The only remaining good one of the "Four Horsemen".
And he's gone, so so fucking much for horsemen.
Which I also fell for, but his endorsement didn't fucking help.
And now he's gone.
In fact, he's gotten worse since I last posted about him!
He and JK Rowling are mis-gendering a cis woman for fuck's sakes!!
Non-conforming cis women are always next.
Always. It never stops at passive transphobia.
And it always starts with "just asking questions" and gets worse.
I've had an ex-friend
go full Nazi that way, another go full-on conspiracy bonkers that way, and another (a Brit) go Brexit and "Hunters laptop" that way.
And I know two other idiots who are "just asking questions" concern-TERFs who are a strong breeze away from going ugly.
So, to say I'm sick of this alt-right bigot merry-go-round is an understatement.
I've scrubbed all traces of Grima from my life. He's dead to me.
So yeah, fuck the horseman shtick.
Dan Dennett was smart to quietly and deftly drift away from that whole thing.
I don't know why I didn't cover Dan's death in April when it happened.
May is when the whole
TERF clusterfuck erupted on my social media, so that jackassery waylaid me.
Dunno what was going on in April.
I guess there were warning signs.
And/or not calling TERFs "gender critical" or "people with legitimate concerns" or whatever.
So, it was brewing.
Anyway, Dennett didn't get sucked up into all that.
Indeed, again, he walked away from the horsemen club.
That proves he was the brilliant one.
Dawkins stole everything from Dennett, Darwin, and Bertrand Russell, anyway.
He was just a content repackager.
He was Dennett's pitbull.
Dennett didn't need a pitbull. At least not Dawkins, anyway.
Took a lot of painful hindsight to see all this though.
So, yeah, full Arnold Rimmer super-salute to the one horseman worth a damn.
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