Hot take: when facing down a Christian fascist theocracy doing the "DAE le all religions bad" thing and predominantly attacking Muslims and Jews is just carrying water for that Christian fascist theocracy. That was a huge problem with the New Atheist community, especially on Reddit, and it's still a problem with the remaining Reddit Atheist types who haven't just been entirely coopted back into the Christofascist movement. Yes, criticizing all atheists because Redditors are cringe is bad. By that same metric, criticizing all religious people because Christians are cringe is also bad. Jews and Muslims are under attack in the west in a big way. Atheists are similarly under attack in many predominantly Christian global south countries due to the long shadow of imperialism.
There isn't anything to be gained from attacking these people who need our support, we need to focus on the big problem instead of attacking the people who are being victimised by the big problem.
Having said that, yea the colander hat trend was really funny. Also a big fan of The Satanic Temple.
I don't really think this post is a criticism of atheists though, more just a criticism of how Reddit dudes will find a couple of things they find relatable about a woman and then entirely objectify her based on those couple of things.
That's the Church of Satan. The Satanic Temple are activists that troll Christians and file lawsuits to use theocratic laws to undermine said theocratic laws. It's still doing the lib "aha, I have exposed you as a hypocrite therefore I win!" shit with the caveat that there are enough libs in the legal system that didn't get the memo that they could just be hypocrites and selectively enforce the law cynically, so it actually works sometimes.
Hot take: when facing down a Christian fascist theocracy doing the "DAE le all religions bad" thing and predominantly attacking Muslims and Jews is just carrying water for that Christian fascist theocracy. That was a huge problem with the New Atheist community, especially on Reddit, and it's still a problem with the remaining Reddit Atheist types who haven't just been entirely coopted back into the Christofascist movement. Yes, criticizing all atheists because Redditors are cringe is bad. By that same metric, criticizing all religious people because Christians are cringe is also bad. Jews and Muslims are under attack in the west in a big way. Atheists are similarly under attack in many predominantly Christian global south countries due to the long shadow of imperialism.
There isn't anything to be gained from attacking these people who need our support, we need to focus on the big problem instead of attacking the people who are being victimised by the big problem.
Having said that, yea the colander hat trend was really funny. Also a big fan of The Satanic Temple.
I don't really think this post is a criticism of atheists though, more just a criticism of how Reddit dudes will find a couple of things they find relatable about a woman and then entirely objectify her based on those couple of things.
"Redditors aren't all bad, by the way I am a libertarian individualist (neoliberal) who loves Ayn Rand"
That's the Church of Satan. The Satanic Temple are activists that troll Christians and file lawsuits to use theocratic laws to undermine said theocratic laws. It's still doing the lib "aha, I have exposed you as a hypocrite therefore I win!" shit with the caveat that there are enough libs in the legal system that didn't get the memo that they could just be hypocrites and selectively enforce the law cynically, so it actually works sometimes.
Not commenting on the effectiveness of their strategy, I just think they're really funny.