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_cnt0 , 6 months ago

I'd love Hitchens, or someone of that caliber, to pull that off in talkshow: just show that picture and say it's not a human. And after the nutters have lost their shits and raged for minutes, reveal that it really is not a human, because, it is an elephant.

SuddenDownpour , 6 months ago

A little bit late for Hitchens to do that. I'm not super excited about Dawkins doing that either (or anything he does in general), then the current visible faces of atheism advocacy seem docile to the point of being innocuous, and most of the past ones have turned out to be dogshit.

Is a visible face of atheism advocacy who is assertive, unapologetic and militant, without seeking hate-induced controversies for the sake of doing profitable grifting too much to ask for?

Rev3rze , 6 months ago

Ah shit. I'm out of the loop. What did Dawkins do?

SuddenDownpour , 6 months ago

In a podcast with Helen Joyce, author of the book Trans: When Ideology Meets Reality, Dawkins said that "sex really is binary" and argued that children are becoming transgender under pressure from their teachers and peers.[55]

https://religionnews.com/2023/08/01/richard-dawkins-has-abandoned-science-to-justify-his-transphobia/

This is the culmination of a long, slow cooking that's been going on for years in his mind.

Rev3rze , 6 months ago

Wow. What an incredible let down. He really has abandoned science. Any biologist worth their salt understands that biology is never binary. He fucking knows better and chooses to present it as black and white while wilfully ignoring the massive spectrum in between.

I really expected more humanity from him.

Viking_Hippie , 6 months ago

Comedian Ben Gleib did that to the always loathsome Charlie Kirk on his own show with a picture of a dolphin fetus and it was glorious 😄

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ShareMySims , 6 months ago

I am not American, and TIL Charlie Kirk is a real person in the media and not just a stock photo of a guy with a memeable face.. 😂

Viking_Hippie , 6 months ago

A memeable face so small that they had to use special zooming technology to find it for the close-up. We're talking 800x zoom or thereabouts.