cross-posted from: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/4479372
Richard Dawkins accused student protesters of antisemitism at his panel event - then runs away from questions about it
cross-posted from: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/4479372
Richard Dawkins accused student protesters of antisemitism at his panel event - then runs away from questions about it
Racist atheists. Western chauvinist atheists. Imperialist atheists.
I’m not familiar with New Atheism’s origins, but if it wasn’t created as War on Terror apologia, it certainly was used that way by Dawkins, Harris, Hitchens, and many others. As a lifelong atheist who saw through the Iraq WMD lies from the start, I was horrified to watch how New Atheism played out.
Why the arguments of the ‘New Atheists’ are often just as violent as religion