A week or two ago there was a clip going around of Dawkins on a radio show arguing that the world would be a happier place if all the Downs Syndrome kids were aborted. When asked for a logical or scientific argument to support this he admitted that he had none.
Today he's trending on Twitter for this post:
It's good for people who don't understand anything about literature to ask sincere questions. He lives in Oxford, where a significant percentage of the population could take him aside and explain the basics of what fiction is and why people read it. I mean, most people learn this in high school, but it's never too late.
If those are rhetorical questions, though, it's just more proof that he shouldn't talk about things he doesn't know about. As he's been doing for decades now.
And an opinion piece on how the New Atheist crew's influence has held up over the years:
https://www.salon.com/2021/06/05/how-the...surrender/
Today he's trending on Twitter for this post:
Quote:Richard Dawkins
@RichardDawkins
· 5h
Kafka’s Metamorphosis is called a major work of literature. Why? If it’s SF it’s bad SF. If, like Animal Farm, it’s an allegory, an allegory of what? Scholarly answers range from pretentious Freudian to far-fetched feminist. I don’t get it. Where are the Emperor’s clothes?
It's good for people who don't understand anything about literature to ask sincere questions. He lives in Oxford, where a significant percentage of the population could take him aside and explain the basics of what fiction is and why people read it. I mean, most people learn this in high school, but it's never too late.
If those are rhetorical questions, though, it's just more proof that he shouldn't talk about things he doesn't know about. As he's been doing for decades now.
And an opinion piece on how the New Atheist crew's influence has held up over the years:
https://www.salon.com/2021/06/05/how-the...surrender/
