RE: Neil Degrasse Tyson
August 14, 2015 at 10:10 am
(This post was last modified: August 14, 2015 at 10:10 am by Napoléon.)
(August 14, 2015 at 9:52 am)Confused Ape Wrote: It was very rude of people to insist he's an atheist when he's an agnostic.
If he doesn't believe in a god, it's not at all rude to point out that he actually meets the description for such a word that accurately describes such a thing. Agnosticism and atheism aren't mutually exclusive, we all know this. By all means he can call himself what he likes, and identify as what he likes. But a white guy saying "I'm blonde, people should always refer to me as blonde, not white", doesn't stop him from being white. What you're effectively saying is we should call the blonde guy blonde and only blonde, because that's what he likes to be called, but it's bad if we call him white, as though he's not actually white at all.
