One thing that I loved and hated were the edgy atheists of the late 2000s. They weren't scared to tell people like Nick Fuentes what some people thought of them. We were "the offensive ones", we were fighting against the "soccer mom moral panic", and younger people saw the left as the "fun" side. Good times. Some places like Quebec and France have strong secularism laws so one could feel patriotic while dunking on chanbrains and nazis.
Then there's the part that I DESPISE about them, is that the demonized ALL Christians and Muslims, not just the hogs. Muhammed Ali and Mr. Rogers were great people, Bin Laden and William Pierce were not.
Oh yeah, i should have mentioned them too. There was a very odd political stance back then of making sure to be critical of the American state, but also of Muslim terrorists in the same degree, without nuance, and to blame the problem of both on religion. Except it was almost never that, it was just racism disguised as some progressive concern for women's rights or something.
It was fun for a while. I remember so many pissed off chuds in the 00s over any number of weekly moral panics. Flag burning, same sex marriage, not standing for the pledge, Pokemon teaching evolution, harry potter teaching witchcraft.
I'd piss off my fundamentalist aunt as a kid by saying Harry Potter spells she thought were real. I'd tell chuds at school that Texas was mandating gay marriage. Was fun for a bit.
But overall I'm also glad Dawkins, Harris, and etc have no prominence at all now. Fuck them.
One thing that I loved and hated were the edgy atheists of the late 2000s. They weren't scared to tell people like Nick Fuentes what some people thought of them. We were "the offensive ones", we were fighting against the "soccer mom moral panic", and younger people saw the left as the "fun" side. Good times. Some places like Quebec and France have strong secularism laws so one could feel patriotic while dunking on chanbrains and nazis.
Then there's the part that I DESPISE about them, is that the demonized ALL Christians and Muslims, not just the hogs. Muhammed Ali and Mr. Rogers were great people, Bin Laden and William Pierce were not.
Oh yeah, i should have mentioned them too. There was a very odd political stance back then of making sure to be critical of the American state, but also of Muslim terrorists in the same degree, without nuance, and to blame the problem of both on religion. Except it was almost never that, it was just racism disguised as some progressive concern for women's rights or something.
It was fun for a while. I remember so many pissed off chuds in the 00s over any number of weekly moral panics. Flag burning, same sex marriage, not standing for the pledge, Pokemon teaching evolution, harry potter teaching witchcraft.
I'd piss off my fundamentalist aunt as a kid by saying Harry Potter spells she thought were real. I'd tell chuds at school that Texas was mandating gay marriage. Was fun for a bit.
But overall I'm also glad Dawkins, Harris, and etc have no prominence at all now. Fuck them.
Agreed, I may dunk on 'murica a lot, but we definitely hit the nail on the head with this attitude:
"Congress shall make NO law respecting an establishment of religion, nor shall it prohibit the free exercise thereof."
I wish Dawkins didn't turn out to be such a shit. I loved his book The Greatest Show On Earth
*awkwardly still friends on facebook with random atheist internet celebs I haven't paid attention to since 2010*