• waigl@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    Unlike with Neil DeGrasse Tyson, with Dawkins, I would be quite surprised if he brought that up without being quite specifically asked about it…

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      9 months ago

      It’s probably from an hour long portrait interview, in which they cover a lot of ground including favourite English literary pieces, and the interviewer tries to tie it to the guest. They would probably ask David Beckham which Harry Potter character he’d have on his football team.

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    9 months ago

    It’s actually even more unlikely that they would be able to learn how to talk. This guy’s clearly not a very good scientist if he missed that.

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        9 months ago

        He claimed several times that transpeople were just the gender version of “Black Face”, so much so they rescinded one of his humanism awards

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            9 months ago

            Remember that time he excused a woman getting sexually assaulted in an elevator by an Atheist, and he just shrugged it off as “A Muslim would have done worse” and claimed she was overreacting… haha… Dawkins is a piece of shit.

            He has also argued for Non-Local Consciousness and claims to be a “Cultural Christian”, so I wonder if he’s even an Atheist anymore…

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              9 months ago

              If you were raised in “the West” then you are most likely passively “culturally Christian” too.

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                9 months ago

                True, but the thing, as I don’t base my entire fucking identity around it to the point where I’m openly bragging about it, despite trying to be the figurehead of New Atheism (New Atheism and Atheism are different things)

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                  9 months ago

                  We have to remember that “New Atheism” was/is largely a response to militant Islam and also demographic shift in western nations.