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Richard Dawkins quits atheism foundation for backing transgender ‘religion’ (www.telegraph.co.uk)

submitted 11 months ago by return2ozma@lemmy.world to c/lgbtq_plus@lemmy.blahaj.zone

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[–] MelodiousFunk@slrpnk.net 81 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I hate that I get to use this so often 😒

[–] PugEnjoyer@lemmy.blahaj.zone 29 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Did people still like Dawkins before this? I'm not an atheist or super interested in his particular field of biology, but every time I heard him get mentioned after his initial New Atheism stuff it was him being islamophobic/racist against Arabs, Iraq war apologia, being an apologist for sexual harassment, etc. He seemed pretty bad for a while.

[–] MelodiousFunk@slrpnk.net 4 points 11 months ago

I was peripherally aware of his biology work. He was asked to do some narration work on Nightwish's 2015 album which brought him top of mind for awhile, but I wasn't following closely. This is the first I'm hearing of anything like that. Disappointing, but not surprising.

[–] sorrowl@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 11 months ago

the only thing i knew about him was that he was in a Nightwish song (The Greatest Show On Earth), so i kinda liked him before (didn't hear of the islamophobia or anything else), but uhh... not anymore.

[–] cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

thank god that never applies to david tennant <3

[–] Mycatiskai@lemmy.ca 8 points 11 months ago

That <3 better be the knocking on wood emoji.