This is also when we saw a lot of these “free thinker” talking head fuckos show up, and they start filling gullible viewers heads with lies and a tiny bit of racism sprinkled in.
I know I’ve already responded once, but this line reminded me of that absolute motherfucker Sam Harris.
I am staunchly atheist and at the time it was nice having some outspoken and seemingly thoughtful atheists promoting the idea that you don’t need religion to be a decent person.
However, that quickly became an excuse and cover for racism. People like Richard Dawkins soon showed their ass and how they were just as adamant about their own unhinged beliefs as religious people. (Dawkins lost me when he suggested that children shouldn’t be allowed to read fiction or “fairy stories” so they “know how to separate fact from fiction.” What a fucking yutz.)
What’s even wilder to me is that the pipeline to racism ended up also turning into a pipeline into religion for men through the Manosphere. We literally have seen a drop in atheist men and an increase in atheist women. This is after nearly two decades of “outspoken atheists” who happen to mostly be male!
As an atheist, watching men who started out in an atheism pipeline be brought into the religious pipeline through racism is fucking wild.
SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 months ago
This is a great post (ya fuckin nailed it) but you somehow missed Barack HUSSEIN Obama.
The Hussein middle name absolutely made post-9/11 racists lose their fucking shit.
9point6@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Oh man, I’d completely forgotten about that
Actual nutjobs