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.
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