I gotta revisit one particular motherfucker from part 6.
Richard muthafuckin' Dawkins.
He's all-in on TERFism.
(Trans Exclusionary Radical Feminist, it's since become the term for any transphobe)
He platforms Helen Joyce, a TERF who wrote a shitty book ("Trans: When Ideology Meets Reality") that quotes debunked science on trans people.
And he's plugged "Irreversible Damage" and "Material Girls" which are even worse.
"Irreversible Damage" is even put out by a company that does nothing but radical right-wing propaganda shit, and is where Anne Coulter hangs her fucking hat these days.
He platforms John McWhorter, who's one of these black racists who tows the Republican line to get the Klan/MAGA fanbase.
And if you need proof; McWhorter Twitter follows Charles Murray who wrote "The Bell Curve" which is infamous for its racist pseudo-science.
And McWhorter's a senior fellow at The Manhattan Institute for Policy Research which is a Republican think tank whose newspaper oozes transphobia and "anti-woke".
And has as one of its writers Ron DeSantis toadie, Chris Rufo.
So that's fun.
And, Dawkins disagrees with Jordan Peterson on everything but the TERF shit.
But transphobia is what Peterson built his whole public fame on, so...yeah.
Fuck you, Dawk.
And while I'm at it, fuck Sam Harris and Jerry Coyne too.
They're bigots too.
Coyne, mostly TERF.
Harris, TERF, Islamophobe, and eugenics buff.
What a pathetic shitshow online atheism has turned out to be.
I mean, there's been bad clunky moments like Elevatorgate, and red flaggy bits here and there, but it's an absolute full-on raging garbage fire now.
There's still a ton of good online atheists, but the big dogs that started "the movement" have gone fucking bananas.
Or, always were, but they hid it well until JK Rowling gave them a permission structure to throw the masks off.
I suspect it's more the latter.
It's a fucking bummer.
But I ain't putting up with that shit.
I'm not gonna let myself get slowly gaslit into being dragged to a fucking Klan rally.
Fuck that. Nope.
I'm fucking done.
Bye fucking bye.
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I'm always careful to make idols out of any public intellectual for precisely this reason.
I thought Dawkins' stock had been falling for a long time now, like ever since South Park had him scissoring Mr. Garrison or whatever it was, anyway.
I have a very sad feeling that if Hitchens were alive today, he'd end up on the conservative side of this debate too...I mean, he was palling around with Paul Wolfowitz at the end, there.
Do not watch "Nitram," it sucks.
Say, you don't suppose Dawkins went transphobic over his South Park episode, do ya?
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Or, did the SP guys pick up on a vibe from the future? 🧙♂️
It's a possibility, but has anyone besides George Clooney ever played nice about being trashed on SP?
Do you still care for Hitchens? It doesn't really seem like his death has made him fade away with the public.
I don't want the SP guys to be clairvoyant, even with the "Manbearpig" apology (if that's what it was) I still keep those guys at arm's length, and their mini-commentaries on episodes didn't endear me to them anymore either (in particular, their commentary on the Walmart episode convinced me more than anything else they've done that they're about two fifths as smart as they think they are)
Shelley Duvall was in "Nashville," so yay that.
Oh, don't mistake me, I don't want you by any stretch of the imagination think I side with the SP idiots.
Just, if anyone deserves their shit now, it's Dawkins.
It's an "Alien vs Predator" situation.
You kinda hope they both die.
Like, a big Monty Python cartoon foot from a Heaven cloud squishes them.
I shudder to think what side of this TERF thing Hitchens would have taken.
Glad I don't have to find out.
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