Well, yeah, there are general parts I'm not crazy about either, but I don't think I'll ever find something that's been written online that I'll agree with 100%. The point was that a lot of social activists are turning legitimate concerns into "I'm-more-progressive-than-you" contests and bullying in the name of social activism. It really makes it impossible to discuss certain topics. For example, we had a discussion here about the topic of rape:
http://atheistforums.org/thread-14248.html
We were able to have an intelligent talk about it, and we brought up good and bad points to it. I can't imagine any of the social activists at Atheism+ being able to have this conversation because just he word 'rape' being mentioned will send someone into fits and the thread will be immediately locked. When you can't talk about topics like that, it can quite easily turn into an Emperor-has-no-clothes situation: people might not agree with something, but they know they can't say anything so they continue to pay lip service; unfortuntely, this also leads to the assumption that everyone believes in something, even if none of them believe it. I mean, have you ever read 1984? Most of the people there aren't really fond of Big Brother, but because they can't say or do anything about it, everyone always just assumes that everyone else supports Big Brother.
That being said, I'm glad to see one important piece of progression from them. One of them actually opened up a forum that's intended to be less of a 'safe space' (aka. Echo chamber). I think I'll keep an eye on this to see if they're willing to entertain legitimate questions of them or if it's just a facade they're going to use to make themselves look open minded.
http://atheismplus.4rumer.com/f3-atheism
http://atheistforums.org/thread-14248.html
We were able to have an intelligent talk about it, and we brought up good and bad points to it. I can't imagine any of the social activists at Atheism+ being able to have this conversation because just he word 'rape' being mentioned will send someone into fits and the thread will be immediately locked. When you can't talk about topics like that, it can quite easily turn into an Emperor-has-no-clothes situation: people might not agree with something, but they know they can't say anything so they continue to pay lip service; unfortuntely, this also leads to the assumption that everyone believes in something, even if none of them believe it. I mean, have you ever read 1984? Most of the people there aren't really fond of Big Brother, but because they can't say or do anything about it, everyone always just assumes that everyone else supports Big Brother.
That being said, I'm glad to see one important piece of progression from them. One of them actually opened up a forum that's intended to be less of a 'safe space' (aka. Echo chamber). I think I'll keep an eye on this to see if they're willing to entertain legitimate questions of them or if it's just a facade they're going to use to make themselves look open minded.
http://atheismplus.4rumer.com/f3-atheism
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"If you cling to something as the absolute truth and you are caught in it, when the truth comes in person to knock on your door you will refuse to let it in." ~ Siddhartha Gautama
