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Oh boy, Elevatorgate
TW: sex pestery
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Young sceptic Youtuber goes to con
As she tries to leave for her hotel room late at night, Sam Harris or whomever muscles his way into the elevator and propositions her for sex
She is understandably upset by this and later writes a blog post about the experience without naming names and how older men trying to leverage their fame and power to sleep with younger women is gross and bad for the movement
Dick fucking Dawkins shows up in her comment section to apologise to an imagined Saudi Arabian woman about how Western feminists are too busy whining about being innocently flirted with to save her from getting stoned to death
Also I think a bunch of skeptodudes shat their pants about how crazy feminists want to ban guys from looking at or talking to women at events
Dick fucking Dawkins shows up in her comment section to apologise to an imagined Saudi Arabian woman about how Western feminists are too busy whining about being innocently flirted with to save her from getting stoned to death
Don’t forget how “all catcalling is done by urban Black people” but when a creepy white guy asks a rando girl for sex “hey, he was just ASKING, relax”
With few exceptions (Matt Dillahunty IIRC), you could see those people transforming from “religion sucks and because Christianity is the largest form of organized religion in the US, I will mostly talk about that” to “Muslims scary tho”.
Been a while since I heard the term cultural Christianity. I had no idea it was associated with such garbage. I’d always thought it was a useful term for how growing up in a Christian society shapes your views on what things like god and religion mean, even if you come to reject Christianity itself.
Was also heavily involved in the New Atheist movement when I was a kid—questioning god and religion (in my case Catholicism in particular) led me to atheism and it felt so freeing. It was also the first step in my journey towards communism as well, because once you start thinking critically about religion thinking critically about everything else naturally followed (at least in my case). Without the New Atheist movement I might not be the committed communist I am today, but god damn have they all turned out to be a bunch of reactionary hacks.
It’s increasingly baffling that PZ Meyers has managed to remain a radlib as everyone else became a chud or went commie.
