Wednesday, April 21, 2021

Dawkins "cancelled"


I see that the American Humanist Association have made a complete fool of themselves by withdrawing the 1996 Humanist of the Year award from Dicky Dawkins because of a tweet he made the other week. The tweet simply posed a (controversial) question to do with identity and people identifying as something but not actually being that thing (by established biological/scientific definitions) for example a white person identifying as black or a man identifying as a woman. Dawkins has posed questions like this on Twitter before, a few times, and the backlash can be amusing to watch, some people don't seem to understand the difference between holding a position on something vs. asking a question about something for the purposes of debate. I doubt anyone really cares about this but it's interesting to see how "woke" (the bad version of this epithet) some organizations have become these days. As it has in this case, it makes them very easy for people to dismiss as irrelevant, even worse for the Humanist Association it makes them look just like a religion, replete with blasphemy rules!

 

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