(April 22, 2021 at 6:16 am)The Grand Nudger Wrote: We can agree with a persons criticism, and those criticisms can be accurate - and they might still be an issue for humanist ideology. I think that dawkins take on religious thinking is descriptive, but it;s not a kosher take for humanism.
Freethinking questions is a term of art. Race realists and gender realists are asking freethinking questions, if you ask them. Yes, freethinking can be an exclusive enterprise to humanism in any state of affairs in which reality as it is does not confirm to reality as humanism asserts it should be. That's a feature, not a bug.
Are race realists really freethinkers though? Or are they pushing a narrow ideology under the guise of free thought? We need to be real in our assessment of things. How is this really going down? Are these people really freethinkers according to our own good judgment?
When a truly open-minded person asks questions about race and gender realism they generally find a humanistic answer at the end of their inquiry. So the questions aren't what's bad. What's bad is when people ask these questions with an answer already in mind... an answer mined from their bigoted ideology which they are trying to sell. Call me old fashioned, but that's not freethinking in my book.
