Disagreed slightly with someone
Comment on Dawkins
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 2 years agoUh oh, what did he do?
Trollception@sh.itjust.works 2 years ago
HawlSera@lemm.ee 2 years ago
Trollception@sh.itjust.works 2 years ago
His comments seem somewhat reasonable if not slightly politically incorrect. I feel like having an opinion isn’t an option when it comes to the trans topic. Any thoughts counter to the pro trans movement is immediately vehemently wrong.
HawlSera@lemm.ee 2 years ago
My entire EXISTENCE being compared to literal racism is not something I should be required to expect respect
theangryseal@lemmy.world 2 years ago
What a tragedy. Can we dig him up and cancel him?
Leate_Wonceslace@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 years ago
Iirc, he had a stroke and then became Twitter friends with JK Rowling.
HawlSera@lemm.ee 2 years ago
He claimed several times that transpeople were just the gender version of “Black Face”, so much so they rescinded one of his humanism awards
MBM@lemmings.world 2 years ago
Wild that you’re getting downvoted, I didn’t know people actually like Dawkins. Here’s The Guardian’s article
HawlSera@lemm.ee 2 years ago
Remember that time he excused a woman getting sexually assaulted in an elevator by an Atheist, and he just shrugged it off as “A Muslim would have done worse” and claimed she was overreacting… haha… Dawkins is a piece of shit.
He has also argued for Non-Local Consciousness and claims to be a “Cultural Christian”, so I wonder if he’s even an Atheist anymore…
tweeks@feddit.nl 2 years ago
Do you have a source for that; what I could find in a quick Google about his statements on rape is his arguments on X is bad and Y is worse. Which is more of a logical argument, but this does not include “a Muslim would have done worse”.
Quote by him: “Date rape is bad. Stranger rape at knifepoint is worse. If you think that’s an endorsement of date rape, go away and learn how to think.”
These statements are bound to be controversial as people might somehow interpret X is not bad as Y is worse. But I would disagree, this is more of a thought experiment in which you can always have a worse situation.
01011@monero.town 2 years ago
If you were raised in the Anglosphere then you are probably passively “culturally Christian” too.
threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works 2 years ago
What does that even mean? If it includes “I put up Christmas lights” then I guess I’m a Christian too.
tweeks@feddit.nl 2 years ago
His wording is a bit harsh, but I don’t think what he says should receive such a backlash. He expresses hard stances on religion as well, which can hurt people in a similar way as that’s also part of their identity.
I think he’s not entirely accurate here though, as there can really be biological mixes / nuances in the sex of people. Even if you exclude the gender discussion on top. It’s all just a gradual thing I’d guess, even possibly inconsistent in ‘percentage’ on different parts of the body.
And all in all it’s also dependent on our culture how we perceive some things as feminine and masculine.
I don’t get why we can’t agree that biologically people tend to be on a multidimensional spectrum, which sometimes is too ambiguous for the naked eye to pin a binary value on. Even scientifically it could be difficult to determine. Above all, on the gender side we indeed should have the courtesy to trust how someone feels and likes to be perceived in this world.
But we can also not blame people for expressing uneasiness if the biological sex and gender are too far apart in how we defined it culturally over thousands of years. One cannot avoid some conflict there.
Hopefully we can try to better ourselves and respect others, in both ways.