• Kaja
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      287 days ago

      Did people still like Dawkins before this? I’m not an atheist or super interested in his particular field of biology, but every time I heard him get mentioned after his initial New Atheism stuff it was him being islamophobic/racist against Arabs, Iraq war apologia, being an apologist for sexual harassment, etc. He seemed pretty bad for a while.

      • @[email protected]
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        57 days ago

        I was peripherally aware of his biology work. He was asked to do some narration work on Nightwish’s 2015 album which brought him top of mind for awhile, but I wasn’t following closely. This is the first I’m hearing of anything like that. Disappointing, but not surprising.

      • Sorrowl
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        26 days ago

        the only thing i knew about him was that he was in a Nightwish song (The Greatest Show On Earth), so i kinda liked him before (didn’t hear of the islamophobia or anything else), but uhh… not anymore.