Richard Dawkins No-Platformed by Atheism+

gather round ladies and gentlemen because I have a very interesting tale to tell you I'm sure you all know who Richard Dawkins is but for those who don't he's a professor of evolutionary biology a world-famous author and philanthropist known for his award-winning contributions to science reason and secularism and on a personal note I'm not going to lie I have a great deal of admiration for Professor Dawkins he in my opinion is in the same league as people like Christopher Hitchens when it comes to intellectual honesty and debunking nonsense when you were famous as Richard Dawkins you will find that there are whole blogs dedicated to being critical of offhanded comments that you have made on Twitter like what did Richard Dawkins say this time this is a tumblr blog run by a member of the regressive left with the exclusive purpose of policing any offhand comments professor Dawkins happens to have made so when Dawkins tweets something along the lines of obviously doesn't apply to the majority of feminists among whom I count myself but the minority are pernicious with a link to a video you know you're in for a good time especially when the video is my video or at least a video on my channel I'm just going to preface this by saying a lot of people are going to attribute this video to me because it's on my channel I don't feel that I can actually take the credit I asked cite n atheist the chap who made it to make me a unique video that I could host on my channel to promote him and he did I had no input in the content of the video but even if I had I wouldn't have changed a thing I think his video is brilliant and I'm very proud to host it but I do want to set the record straight because a lot of people are attributing the creative impetus of this video to me and frankly I'm not that talented you can imagine just how angry the regressive who runs what did Richard Dawkins say this time was about this and they decided to show their colors by linking to the article about me on rationale wiki a place so honest that they actually think I am a Donald Trump supporter of course anyone with half a brain knows that rationale wiki is too rational what freethought blogs is the skepticism and so it's quite entertaining when PZ Myers decided to write a post on free thought blogs regarding this little episode Myers decided to really uphold the reputation of free thought blogs and begin his little blog post with ally Richard Dawkins does it again citing a crude cartoon from sargon of a cat that claims feminists are in league with Islamists fuck me I'm guessing you didn't do your due diligence PZ because that's not what the cartoon says at all it just says that their ideologies are very very similar at least he went to the trouble of reading the text on the video feminists in his lists have basically the same ideology demonstrated through the magic of song by psy ten atheist instead of rebutting this he just says that this is a pile of nonsense favorably promoted by Richard Dawkins demonstrated Jebus I'd at least expect him to understand the meaning of that sentence PZ since you didn't watch the video how would you know as you might expect the comment section got pretty triggered and was made into a safe space very very quickly so whatever you do do not go there and post comments that descent against the prevailing group thing that's a form of abuse I think this comment really sums up the desperate pretentiousness of free thought blogs so so unfortunate I'm a Dawkins fan but this is just hard to see the slender read of truth in Sargon's video is that a minority of feminists like a minority of everybody would like to shut down contrary opinions with laws and not just counter speech and that is wrong and bad but Sargon puts it in such a crude over-the-top and stupid way and to endorse such a fish nurse ah oh well feet of clay cut you guys are so sophisticated you're so smart you fascist you are so brilliant I can't believe everyone thinks freethought blogs is a giant fucking joke of course it wasn't just whiny bloggers who are giving Richard the business there were of course the Twitter trolls by which I mean feminists professor Dawkins was accosted by a highly intellectual and experienced feminist who accused him of thinking that women he dislikes deserve rape and death threats of course professor Dawkins was flabbergasted why would you even say such a thing it turns out that at some point in this debacle someone had explained to professor Dawkins exactly who the feminists playing the piano was and academic Titan Lindy West had told professor Dawkins that posting my parody video of big red implies endorsement of her abuse and will definitely amplify it and I don't know about you but to me that sounds like a statement that is just brimming with truthiness but who is Lindy West if she's so important how have I never heard of her ha okay well I guess she must come from the Steve shives school of public debate okay well I'm not bothered by being preemptively blocked I'll just sign out of Twitter and have a look at her profile anyway Lindy where's the wife at lady so mean to baby man I'm guessing she's a feminist but not one of those horrible mists and rest' feminists I've heard so much about and author of shrill a memoir hmm pin tweet be right back glorifying obesity clearly it's a joke I'm not in on because it just links to a picture of her sunning herself on a beach in skegness so why was this free bleeding feminist giving Richard Dawkins such a dressing-down on Twitter I mean who is she what are her credentials I went to college and I got an English degree and then I graduated from college and then I have nothing and I had no skills except for writing so I just sort of I took an internship at a magazine that was not something I was interested in at all it was about babies it's like a free magazine about child rearing that I would write things but I was not qualified to write and just I just sort of got thrown into all these weird writing assignments and just had to figure out how to do it and it was a really really actually good experience even though it was boring and weird and I was giving people medical advice it was even I think 21 years old and didn't actually know anything so she's clearly a very well-educated and responsible person I'm glad that she decided to take time out of her busy day helping people to redress professor Dawkins misogyny and help protect such a special special snowflake after learning that the lovely young woman with the red hair in the joke was actually a real person who had been disgracefully threatened with violence professor Dawkins decided to do the honorable thing and delete his tweets I expect after being attacked by the staunch intellectuals of free thought blogs and being mobbed by the cry bully feminists on Twitter enough was enough and I don't blame him for saying look I'm deleting my tweet and just getting out of this of course this wasn't enough for rabid feminists like Jennifer champagne who decided to continue to interrogate him on the subject and demand an apology which professor Dawkins hilariously misinterpreted as champagne asking where the big red had apologized she of course had the cheek to say no I meant you and of course she didn't agree with the professor when he asked don't you think she should apologize for shrieking shut the fuck up and fuckface at anyone who tries to get a word in of course professor Dawkins continued to be mobbed by other rabid feminists dogs who decided to nip at his heels even claiming that he participated in the harassment of someone who has gone into hiding but the thing is that's all just Twitter nonsense and while it can be quite overwhelming to have a sudden rush of very angry and hostile people coming at you on Twitter it's not anything serious because it is of course Twitter however being disinvited from a skeptic conference after an anti-feminist tweet is something else the Northeast Conference on science and skepticism has withdrawn their invitation to have Richard Dawkins speak at their conference after sharing a highly offensive video they didn't specify the video but it was likely the awful YouTube video the Dawkins shared right before this happened that compared feminists to tear arrests okay just a couple of quick points Islamists are not necessarily terrorists and we'll just take a quick look at the full statement the Northeast Conference on science and skepticism has withdrawn its invitation to Richard Dawkins participate in any CSS 2016 we have taken this action in response to dr. Dawkins approving retweet of a highly offensive video we believe strongly in freedom of speech and freedom to express unpopular even offensive views concept without smiling however unnecessarily divisive counterproductive and even hateful speech runs contrary to our mission now I do hate to point out the logical inconsistencies of the atheism plus position here but let me refer you back to this comment from earlier in the video specifically the part that says a minority of feminists would like to shut down contrary opinions and the conference had withdrawn its invitation to Richard Dawkins based on the fact that he had tweeted something I hate to be the one to break this to you I really do what you are demonstrating to everyone right here you absolute morons is that you resemble that remark you are the feminists being criticized your reactions to Dawkins tweeting that video would be absolutely irrational if it didn't reflect on you this is how that Paseos article ends importantly this situation goes way beyond Richard Dawkins it's an example of the atheist skeptic movement explicitly condemning misogyny which is encouraging no one is trying to censor speech but if you share hateful stuff there will be consequences seriously do you people have no sense of self-awareness I mean honestly do you do you honestly have no idea what's going on here do you not see how people on the outside see you I mean there was nothing hateful about that video it was criticizing bad ideas and by your own reactions you have inadvertently shown everyone that these are bad ideas you hold and you don't like them being compared to Islamists because it shows you just how bad your own ah just so everyone knows professor Dawkins just tweeted out twit longer saying that he was the platform for tweeting an irreverent joke song oh well always look on the bright side of life incidentally would Monty Python have been deep platform for that no don't be silly Life of Brian was only satirizing Christianity I'm pretty sure this goes to show that Professor Dawkins understands there is a religion here that is above criticism and when finally those people who have experience dealing with the regressive left realized what was going on and asked him about it he said that he deleted the tweet because he was momentarily persuaded probably wrongly that a human life however vile might be threatened to which someone else explained the cardinal rule of dealing with the regressive left never show weakness never back down apologizing to the regressive left never helps they'll just see you as weak and attack even more and professor Dawkins replied yes I'm starting to learn that you see I had this touching faith in the goodness of humanity and you know what I do as well so I think to help restore professor Dawkins faith in humanity it might be worth anyone who uses Twitter and is watching this video to just send him a message to tell him whether you appreciate his work on arts maybe a quick thank you or some kind words just to maybe help him feel a bit better about what's happened here and remind him that there is actually some good on the internet instead of the endless negativity of feminists and the regressive atheism plus brigade

Channel: Sargon of Akkad

Views: 222,556

Rating: 4.9372511 out of 5

Keywords: funny, stupid, feminism, mra, news, comedy, politics, hilarious

Id: W1bI7S0LCos

Length: 12min 39sec (759 seconds)

Published: Thu Jan 28 2016

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