Richard Dawkins: cancelled for woke heresy
Here's the offending tweet in question:
This. Has. Gone. Too. Fucking. Far.
For the record, I, like Sam Harris and Richard Dawkins, am firmly supportive of trans rights and recognize trans people for who and what they are. I also recognize Rachel Dolezal's right to identify as a black person despite her ancestry, whether she "chooses" to do so or not. I also recognize my right not to identify as "Chinese" despite my ancestry until such time as the Chinese Communist Party is overthrown. I recognize everyone's right to freedom of expression, voluntary or otherwise.
I disagree with the notion that there are only two genders, or the idea that trans people are all just cross-dressing rapists who deserve to be misgendered and driven to commit suicide en masse. I strongly disagree with the notion that trans people have no right to exist and deserve to be rounded up and burned at the stake and I believe such calls to violence and discrimination are indeed hateful and bigoted and not in keeping with the values of a tolerant, civilized society.
But I also disagree with the idea that Dawkins, Harris, J.K. Rowling, et al. are all "transphobic bigots" simply for daring to ask pertinent questions or for daring to assert that "there are only two genders", or for failing to phrase a certain sentence correctly. I strongly disagree with the practice of hounding foreign immigrants who speak little English simply because their staff are not trained to wax a trans woman's balls and such services are not advertised at all. I believe such spiteful, hateful conduct by a tiny minority of extremely outspoken trans activists as well as other influential, non-trans SJWs does ordinary trans people a huge disservice by antagonizing those who would otherwise be sympathetic to their cause.
"You call yourself pro-trans? You can't use the word "choose". If you say the words "choose" and "Rachel Dolezal" in the same sentence, even if you don't actually believe trans people have a choice, you are canceled. You're not pure enough for us and we will shut you down just because we can. So STFU, bigot."
I fail to see where or how Dawkins "demeaned" trans people and he made it perfectly clear in a follow-up tweet that that was not his intention. Is a tiny little wording error so incredibly offensive to a tiny minority of disproportionately influential, professionally-offended snowflakes that he deserves to have his entire character assassinated and his reputation destroyed simply because he failed to word his tweet correctly?
Simply because he dared to ask a question? This is what cancel culture is. This is why these far-left wokists and cultural Marxists must never be allowed to hold any position of authority, let alone run a country. Thank god for Boris Johnson and his Conservative supermajority. At least liberalism is holding out in the United Kingdom, but I digress.
The American Humanist Association, much like the ADL, the ACLU, the SPLC, and other formerly-respected NGOs, has lost ALL credibility and moral authority on pretty much everything to do with everything and if anyone deserves to be canceled, it's these woke vigilante groups who have taken it upon themselves to act as a kind of morality police, supplanting the medieval religious police of centuries past.
Many atheists, short of abandoning religious dogma, have merely substituted one form of dogma with another, namely wokism AKA cultural Marxism. The Elevatorgate scandal that broke out ten years ago and the emergence of Atheism+ were some of the early signs that the once firmly united atheist community was already slowly being infiltrated and divided by woke feminists and far-left SJWs who believe themselves to be morally superior to everyone else and expect normies like us to "decolonize our minds" and "check our privilege" or some such nonsense. Shame on Matt Dillahunty and the Atheist Community of Austin for ironically selling their souls to pander to these intolerant wokists.
For many years, Richard Dawkins, together with the late, great, Christopher Hitchens, Sam Harris, and Ayaan Hirsi Ali, gave atheists like us a voice and shone a light on religious bigotry and intolerance around the world. Dawkins, like his fellow Horsemen and Horsewomen of the Non-Apocalypse, has consistently refused to cave to wokeness in all its hideous forms.
This is a man who has refused to spare Islam and Muslims from the kind of harsh, unrelenting criticism that Jews and Christians and their faiths have been rightly subjected to. As a non-Muslim who lives in a deeply racist, chauvinistic, Muslim-majority country, I can't tell you just how much this kind of criticism and support means to me. While the woke Left has abandoned non-Muslim minorities like me for not fitting their simplistic narratives of Muslims always being the oppressed victims while non-Muslim minorities who dare to push back are labeled as racist bigots, Dawkins and Harris have never, ever let me down. Not even once.
When the Elevatorgate scandal involving a certain Rebecca Watson shaming men for the "crime" of awkwardly asking a woman out on a date broke in 2011, Richard Dawkins, in an open letter titled "Dear Muslima", sharply criticized the hypocrisy of white, middle-class, Western feminists and juxtaposed their hyperinflated victimhood complex with the actual struggles of Muslim women residing in the Muslim world. He stood up for men's rights when many others, atheist and religious alike, refused to do so for fear of being labeled racist and sexist.
He has refused to jump on the "you're a racist, fascist, sexist, homophobic, Islamophobic, transphobic POS" SJW bandwagon for years and years. He has been a staunch bulwark against woke political correctness and cancel culture for years and years and this latest move by the AHA shows just how determined the woke Left is to try to cancel and slander a man who has given us so much for so long. He and Sam Harris are not transphobic or "Islamophobic" in any way. The many years of dishonest smears and defamation that have been building up against them will not succeed.
I stand with Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, and the late, great, Christopher Hitchens. These New Atheists of the Intellectual Dark Web have been and remain my biggest idols to date and much of my worldview has been influenced by their works and commentary. I deplore attempts by certain segments of society to defame these individuals and falsely smear them as bigots. I abhor attempts by anti-intellectual, authoritarian SJWs to divide and pit different groups of atheists against one another so that they may rule over us in perpetuity. People like Laurie Penny, Rebecca Watson, Big Red, Reza Azlan, Glenn Greenwald, Ezra Klein, and all manner of radical Islamists are a threat to public discourse and an open society and a threat to the atheist community. May these small-minded haters never succeed in destroying us. One does not just fuck with the atheist community. As a New Atheist and a staunch, anti-woke liberal, I stand proud.
(I also stand with J.K Rowling and the authors of the HarperCollins open letter decrying cancel culture. I notice that the first DuckDuckGo search suggestion that pops up when I type in her name is "JK Rowling transphobe", which tells us just how powerful these SJWs have become. Rowling, however, is Christian.)
Where do you stand? Do you stand with Richard Dawkins and the atheist community, or do you stand with the woke, cultural Marxist SJWs who would attempt to silence, divide, and bury us for wrongthink? Poll included.
EDIT: Will adopt Nak's suggestion and update the poll.
