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[–] Rojo27@hexbear.net 65 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

The most civil thing to do is to introduce him to baseballcure-for-fascism

[–] Frank@hexbear.net 63 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I want to civilly hit him in the face with a brick. Dumb shithead set back my mission to kill god by years with his Islamaphobic dipshittery.

[–] EstraDoll@hexbear.net 38 points 3 months ago (2 children)

It's a simple, biological fact and reality that Richard Dawkins is meant to be hit in the face with a brick

source: same ass richard dawkins pulled his transphobic "facts" from

[–] context@hexbear.net 19 points 3 months ago

(undisputed)

[–] Frank@hexbear.net 19 points 3 months ago

He's evolved a brick hittable face as a defensive method against being British. It's his evolutionary niche. The selfish brick prick.

[–] ButtBidet@hexbear.net 57 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I stopped paying attention a long time ago. But I'm shocked that Richard Dawkins would have an opinion this bad. I'm also shocked that FB gives a fuck about transphobia now.

[–] YoungSheldonAdelson@hexbear.net 67 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

This was always going to be Richard Dawkins’ path. Over the past few years he’s really leaned into it though and now he knows where to get beanis for his toast.

A few months ago Dawkins was calling himself “culturally Christian” to show that he was against the Ramadamification of Christmas in Br*tain.

It was never about atheism, science, rationality, or enlightenment values. It was about otherizing non-white (edit: and non-cis people) people in Europe and “The West.” It’s why the new atheists got popular after 9/11 and why nobody blinked when people like Sam Harris were going around calling for nuclear first strikes against “the Muslim world.”

[–] comrade_pibb@hexbear.net 46 points 3 months ago (1 children)

In hindsight it's pretty obviously a movement to divorce white supremacy from anti intellectualism

[–] jack@hexbear.net 4 points 3 months ago

So basically just English academia for the last 250 years

[–] BurgerPunk@hexbear.net 11 points 3 months ago

A few months ago Dawkins was calling himself “culturally Christian”

Hitchens was doing that over ten years ago lol

[–] SkingradGuard@hexbear.net 55 points 3 months ago (1 children)

The propaganda is insane...there is ZERO proof she's got that genetic makeup. It's literally just disinformation.

[–] YoungSheldonAdelson@hexbear.net 39 points 3 months ago (2 children)
[–] SkingradGuard@hexbear.net 31 points 3 months ago

Richard Dawkins, fascist (undisputed)

[–] WhatDoYouMeanPodcast@hexbear.net 27 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] grendahlgrendahlgen@hexbear.net 15 points 3 months ago

undisputed [1] [2]

[1] smuglord

[2] made-it-the-fuck-up

[–] Angel@hexbear.net 49 points 3 months ago (3 children)

New Atheists not being insanely reactionary challenge (IMPOSSIBLE)

[–] iridaniotter@hexbear.net 42 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Just stick with old atheism back-to-me

[–] Angel@hexbear.net 36 points 3 months ago

Make Atheism Communist Again

[–] UlyssesT@hexbear.net 25 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Every time someone says "the reddit-logo New Atheists were right and I miss them" regarding some religious fundamentalist issue or another, I want to redirect them toward the actual reddit-logo New Atheists, where they stand, and demand to see where their ideological aims and their goals for society are that much different, or better.

[–] BurgerPunk@hexbear.net 14 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Every time someone says "the  New Atheists were right and I miss them

People say that?!?!?! I think my head would explode if i heard that

[–] UlyssesT@hexbear.net 7 points 3 months ago

I saw it somewhere here yesterday, but I forgot where exactly.

[–] TheDoctor@hexbear.net 47 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Richard Dawkins read Imane Khalif’s genome sequencing analysis out of a hat that he swears exists and is true but none of us are allowed to see it because God would be mad about it.

[–] Findom_DeLuise@hexbear.net 24 points 3 months ago

Richard DawKKKin$ Mormon arc

[–] BeamBrain@hexbear.net 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Congrats on the site tagline!

[–] TheDoctor@hexbear.net 3 points 1 month ago

Ngl I was happy with this one. Glad it had some legs.

[–] Belly_Beanis@hexbear.net 46 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Imagine having a PhD from Oxford in biology and still getting basic biology wrong.

[–] 7bicycles@hexbear.net 25 points 3 months ago

sounds like the biology program at oxford is garbage

[–] Robert_Kennedy_Jr@hexbear.net 45 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] GlueBear@hexbear.net 12 points 3 months ago

Best emoji on the site so far

[–] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 41 points 3 months ago (1 children)

He thinks like he gets punched in the face for a living.

[–] LocalOaf@hexbear.net 18 points 3 months ago (1 children)

It's crazy that Mike Tyson seems like a nicer person than Richard Dawkins nowadays

[–] Beetle_O_Rourke@hexbear.net 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] LocalOaf@hexbear.net 8 points 3 months ago

Well shit, I meant that he's less of a odious public figure than Dawkins within the last, decade maybe? I'm aware of the heinous shit Tyson did in the 90s and didn't mean to sound like I'm minimizing that

[–] kleeon@hexbear.net 41 points 3 months ago

Richard Dawkins is genetically female (XX undisputed)

[–] infuziSporg@hexbear.net 39 points 3 months ago

Genetically Neanderthal authors such as Richard Dawkins (crakkker undisputed) should not have civilized arguments with humans on Facebook.

Somehow this sounds no more stupid than what he wrote.

[–] Black_Mald_Futures@hexbear.net 34 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Lol did he just call a Facebook post a tweet

[–] Rom@hexbear.net 35 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Huge "I got my son the new Nintendo " vibes

[–] Wertheimer@hexbear.net 19 points 3 months ago

Counterpoint: all soda is Coke

[–] roux@hexbear.net 20 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Dawkins is such a fucking dork. At least when he was just a loud atheist, it was funny watching Christians clutch pearls but this "only 2 genders" era of him is just fucking cringe.

[–] Saeculum@hexbear.net 12 points 3 months ago (1 children)

If he'd just shut up, he could have been the guy who coined the term "meme" and been remembered as a relatively successful minor celebrity debate-bro.

[–] roux@hexbear.net 8 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I think this a lot about of celebs that don't know how to shut up. Like, Rowling could have made Harry Potter, raked in millions and then disapppeared into obscurity instead of becoming Twitter's transphobia poster child.

[–] combat_brandonism@hexbear.net 9 points 3 months ago (1 children)

been cringe since his dear muslima shit

[–] roux@hexbear.net 6 points 3 months ago

Yeah that was some ignorant shit too.

[–] Beetle_O_Rourke@hexbear.net 16 points 3 months ago

a hamas-red-triangle on EVERY elevatorgator!

[–] Red_sun_in_the_sky@hexbear.net 15 points 3 months ago

Ummmmmmm anyone with condensed genetic organization should not participate in sports. Mmmmmmmmm science 🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓

[–] robinnn@hexbear.net 14 points 3 months ago

Rigid species boundaries are nonsense but rigid sexual boundaries are so real!! What about the actual complexities of chromosomes?? Anything that refutes my position is a disorder and therefore doesn’t count!! Why? Because it doesn’t fit my position!!

[–] Red_sun_in_the_sky@hexbear.net 14 points 3 months ago (1 children)

How about richard cawkins. Fuckin owned 😎

[–] neroiscariot@hexbear.net 11 points 3 months ago

Mfer sounds like a bird!

[–] RubyRhod@lemm.ee 2 points 3 months ago

Fuck happened to you, Rich?