Inspired by some of the discussion in this thread. I don't think it's appropriate place for that discussion there, but hey why not have a separate thread for it

If I think religion is not good in general, am I Reddit and cringe and basically Richard Dawkins?

  • LENINSGHOSTFACEKILLA [he/him]
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    16 hours ago

    finally came to a head around 2012 with ElevatorGate. The scorched earth take no prisoners nature of ElevatorGate pretty much destroyed whatever was left of the internet atheist power structure.

    fucking what is elevator gate

    • UlyssesT [he/him]
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      16 hours ago

      fucking what is elevator gate

      "Sex positive" sex pestery among thirsty New Atheist convention goers, and a feeemale daring to state she felt uncomfortable being propositioned in a closed elevator at 4am far from home, lead to Dawkins' notorious "Dear Muslima" letter.

      https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Elevatorgate

      I dare to suspect that the Youtube atheist fad of "debunking" creationists shifted gears to being really mad at feeemales and stayed there, only expanding the rage to SJWs/wokeness/DEI pronouns after that moment.

      • BelieveRevolt [he/him]
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        16 hours ago

        dare to suspect that the Youtube atheist fad of "debunking" creationists shifted gears to being really mad at feeemales and stayed there, only expanding the rage to SJWs/wokeness/DEI after that moment.

        You'd suspect correctly. There was some base misogyny there to build on, see TheAmazingAtheist and the disgusting things he said about SA including to an actual SA victim.

        • UlyssesT [he/him]
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          15 hours ago

          I don't want to repeat that vile piece of shit's words, but I do remember them clearly.

        • vegeta1 [none/use name]
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          14 hours ago

          Amazing atheist and several other atheists did wonders for the proliferation of garbage reactionary content on youtube

        • UlyssesT [he/him]
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          12 hours ago

          Men of wö.

          "Men of woe" kelly

          Insert boomer wife hatred jokes here grillman

    • WilsonWilson [comrade/them, he/him]
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      16 hours ago

      Avoid going down the elevatorgate rabbit hole if you value your sanity. The same people involved in elevatorgate started GamerGate.

      • WilsonWilson [comrade/them, he/him]
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        15 hours ago

        I hear that thunderfoot (don't look that up) broke his brain on Brexit and Covid so now he's back on center-left but likely still a misogynist. Dawkins, Ham Sarris, Shermer, Jillete et al. just got old and feeble or outright ded like Randii and Dennett. They only pop in now and then to say something like "more jews won nobel prizes than muslims so we should exterminate all muslims" which they've been doing since GWOT