RE: The Dawkins 'Race' Row
August 12, 2013 at 9:06 am
(This post was last modified: August 12, 2013 at 9:10 am by paulpablo.)
(August 12, 2013 at 7:38 am)Fidel_Castronaut Wrote: For those who haven't heard, Dawkins has had some criticism thrown at him for comments made over Twitter about the lack of Muslim Nobel Prize winners (among other things).
A good summary is here:
http://rationalist.org.uk/articles/4267/...g-catch-up
Effectively folk criticising Dawkins have accused him of being racist for pointing out two things (his words)
1. Cambridge (Trinity) has more Nobel Laureates than all of the Islamic world put together (and)
2. 'They' [The Islamic world I'm guessing] did some great things in the middle ages (but have effectively produced or contributed nothing in hundreds of years).
Your thoughts? (I've simplified the entire debate/row, but the summary site gives some good background).
My first reaction is to say (truthfully) that whatever else his comments are, they're not racist, as 'Islam' is not a race. In fact the assumption that all muslims are brown is pretty stupid.
Anyway, if anyone cares, share your thoughts.
Totally agree, Islam isn't a race that should be the end of the argument as far as people calling him racist.
Also facts if they are true can't be racist, they're just facts.
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