cross-posted from: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/4479372
Richard Dawkins accused student protesters of antisemitism at his panel event - then runs away from questions about it
cross-posted from: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/4479372
Richard Dawkins accused student protesters of antisemitism at his panel event - then runs away from questions about it
Sometimes I feel like (our particular brand of) Christians are getting too powerful again in the US and we need the reddit atheists to return, but then this guy opens his mouth.
The "Reddit atheists" have become the cultural Christians now. Dawkins refers to himself as a cultural Christian. A new generation of of Reddit atheists will just produce the same result, more secular people invested in cultural conservatism and imperial hegemony. As Samir Amin writes in Eurocentrism:
The kind of secularism promoted by "Reddit atheists" does not reduce the belief and support of traditional Christian or Western values or Eurocentric thought, in fact it reinforces them, because now people are free to believe in those values without having to engage in anti intellectual stuff like denying the theory of evolution or the big bang, or believing that mythological parables from the Bible are meant to be taken literally.
We don't need "Reddit atheists", we need materialists.
Racist atheists. Western chauvinist atheists. Imperialist atheists.
I’m not familiar with New Atheism’s origins, but if it wasn’t created as War on Terror apologia, it certainly was used that way by Dawkins, Harris, Hitchens, and many others. As a lifelong atheist who saw through the Iraq WMD lies from the start, I was horrified to watch how New Atheism played out.
Why the arguments of the 'New Atheists' are often just as violent as religion
Exactly. Watch the debate between Michael Parenti and Christopher Hitchens to see exactly what you are talking about. Showcases all the limits of the new atheist movement.
https://youtu.be/jzkmP3XFFX8
This is going to be like Vidal vs. Buckley, isn’t it? I guess I’ll find out!
I don’t think it was created as such, but all the guys you mentioned were either naive useful idiots or really believed in the US state department line. Hitchens was an Iraq War cheerleader and considering the rest have proven they care more about being Islamophobic than atheist, I wouldn’t be surprised if they had been as well.
Tell me you're a white supremacist without saying "I'm a white supremacist"
surely it's easier to break people of these beliefs when they don't think it's ordained by the omnipotent creator of the universe.
Yeah I'd like to keep the lid on that can of worms for now, at least