Richard Dawkins appears to have spilled the secret. : womensstuff@piefed.blahaj.zone

[–] Greercase@lemmus.org 33 points 6 months ago (6 children)

People who followed Gamergate knew he was trash back then. Rebecca Watson talks about it a bit in one of her videos. I think it's this one: https://youtu.be/ZoO9FZXUgv4

Random article from a decade ago about this: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/sep/18/richard-dawkins-sexist-atheists-bad-name

That being said, this is a good reminder.

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[–] ZDL@lazysoci.al [S] 21 points 6 months ago (5 children)

I knew he was trash before the Rebecca Watson affair. I've hated the big-A Atheists (as a small-a atheist) for pretty much their entire existence. They're all, without exception, arrogant assholes with a fetish for control and humiliation of others. Not a single one of them counts, IMO, as a virtuous human being.

They're just atheist-flavoured assholes like how the really loud fundy Christians are just Christian-flavoured assholes.

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[–] Greercase@lemmus.org 7 points 6 months ago

I had heard of him, but I hadn't actually heard from him. I knew of the Atheist community at the time but just wasn't involved in it enough to know or care much. Gamergate was my first real introduction to them and I honestly felt lucky because it seemed like a lot of people really looked up to a bunch of people that turned out to be huge bigots. Easy for me to say after the fact, but your assessment seems to be wholly accurate.

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[–] AnarchistArtificer@slrpnk.net 8 points 6 months ago (1 child)

I actually really appreciate Richard Dawkins, because for a while as a teenager, I was a bit of an asshole atheist, and Richard Dawkins was like a cautionary story for me

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