Not that there's anything good about this, but hearing that both Steven Pinker and Richard Dawkins "resigned" from whatever honorary positions they had with the FFRF rather made my heart sink.

I was a linguistics student for a time, and Pinker's books always had a sociolinguistic aspect to them, but I never saw transphobia. It was admittedly a while back, so it really wasn't yet settling into the national consciousness.

I also admired Dawkins' writing style; again, I saw nothing transphobic.

So for both of these guys to be like "nope, you should have totally kept a piece up that says transwomen should have fewer rights and options" is, maybe, the final insult of 2024.

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[–] josefo@leminal.space 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Well, I'm not familiar with the works of neither, but I'll throw a limb here and say that fighting religion doesn't really means fighting cult mentality. It's better to uproot the tree than laughing at the color of some apples.

Why we can't finally agree on the fact that humans deserve the same rights as others humans because, well, they are all humans, and you kinda can't loose that trait no matter what. It's simple, you are a human, you have the same rights (and obligations) as others humans do.

[–] LEVI@feddit.org 7 points 1 week ago

Why we can't finally agree on the fact that humans deserve the same rights as others humans because, well, they are all humans, and you kinda can't loose that trait no matter what. It's simple, you are a human, you have the same rights (and obligations) as others humans do.

Totally agree with everything you said here, I learned that it takes a lot of intelligence for people to realize it, believe it or not..

Most of them won't pay that tax, it's exhausting, which is why you have to think for them

[–] hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

That's pretty damn disheartening, considering Richard Dawkins being one of the writers responsible for my world view today. His books really made me understand the questions I had about my beliefs in religion after growing up in a fundamentalist family, and my understanding of the beauty of evolution when all that info was skipped in a private religious schools

Truly a sad day to read this

[–] jonne@infosec.pub 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

There's a section of the atheist movement that went deep into Islamophobia after 9/11, and they came out of that aligned with the Christian Right in the end. Not sure if this is part of a grift or just an age thing.

[–] LEVI@feddit.org 3 points 1 week ago (7 children)

Not sure if this is part of a grift or just an age thing.

Neither, it has to do with teaching of Islam itself, which I recommend you take a look at

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