have been trying to get someone to write about the legacy of new atheism for years. happy I got Erik Baker to do it! defector.com/the-ghosts-o...
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Fantastic, those guys are the WORST
Precisely the content I'm looking for during the Alt-Defector week
> In reality, people change their sex, so it cannot possibly be the case that sex is immutable. In reality, people cannot change their sex. We use the word "immutable" for things like this that cannot change.
@davidjroth.bsky.social I'm excited to read this one because I once tried to read a Hitchens book somebody gave me for free while I was living in China. All I remember is he kept insisting that India was wrong to change "Bombay" to Mumbai and that he'd keep calling it "Bombay." Total dickweed.
"There’s nothing wrong, of course, with trying to figure out what reality is like. Some of my best friends are real." lmfao
Why is Animal Collective catching strays in the opening sentence
I enjoyed the retrospective and collation of New Athiests and “liberal thinker” but Baker uses Chait’s own argument at the end, both sides are extremists. But, like he says, these are more complex issues than can be formed into a political cudgel.
calling these guys by their chosen name, rather than their actual ideology "conservative determinisim" does everyone a disservice - they are no different than the Rocco's Basilisk idiots, and they have about as much evidence to back their position Darwin would weep if he knew what they have done
i thought to write about this for years, but it’d be too personally embarrassing