RE: Dawkins loses humanist title
April 22, 2021 at 5:32 am
(This post was last modified: April 22, 2021 at 5:56 am by The Grand Nudger.)
Apparently, he managed to hit the number of flippant twitter posts +1 - as they explained.
While questioning everything may be the point of being a freethinker, it's not the point of humanism. Humanism has non negotiable articles which are in no way determined by any biological fact or even any fact of reality as it is.
To put it another way, it very much seems that people are expressing an issue with humanism. Specifically with the aha as it's main goal is to advocate for humanism - the aha doesn't sex chickens. The concern seems to be that the aha is advancing something that isn't true - but that's exactly what humanism (or any ideology) does. Advance and advocate for a set of principles or a state of affairs which may not be true, yet, but should be - at least from the pov of it's adherents.
Steeping in the pile of dolezal dogshit and smearing that right on the rug of trans issues was idiotic, especially for such a smart guy. He'll make clarifications, offer retractions, as he has before, and the aha has mentioned that they no longer believe that these clarifications and retractions are earnest. He's built a pattern of behavior. We can, if we like (and to short circuit any and all debate over the notion), imagine that this pattern of behavior and these comments are wholly and completely supported by nothing but facts, and every one of them is relevant - but it wouldn't matter. A connection and distinction with and for a person who says a bunch of true shit antithetical to the values of an ideological association is a problem for the ideological association all the same.
While questioning everything may be the point of being a freethinker, it's not the point of humanism. Humanism has non negotiable articles which are in no way determined by any biological fact or even any fact of reality as it is.
To put it another way, it very much seems that people are expressing an issue with humanism. Specifically with the aha as it's main goal is to advocate for humanism - the aha doesn't sex chickens. The concern seems to be that the aha is advancing something that isn't true - but that's exactly what humanism (or any ideology) does. Advance and advocate for a set of principles or a state of affairs which may not be true, yet, but should be - at least from the pov of it's adherents.
Steeping in the pile of dolezal dogshit and smearing that right on the rug of trans issues was idiotic, especially for such a smart guy. He'll make clarifications, offer retractions, as he has before, and the aha has mentioned that they no longer believe that these clarifications and retractions are earnest. He's built a pattern of behavior. We can, if we like (and to short circuit any and all debate over the notion), imagine that this pattern of behavior and these comments are wholly and completely supported by nothing but facts, and every one of them is relevant - but it wouldn't matter. A connection and distinction with and for a person who says a bunch of true shit antithetical to the values of an ideological association is a problem for the ideological association all the same.
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