Richard Dawkins - Anti -Christ or Great Thinker?

Dawkins stresses that TSG is not as negative as it sounds, and points out 1) many ways in which altruism is an ESS, and 2) that we have the self knowledge and therefore the ability to *not* be fatalistic about selfishness.

I mean, misunderstanding number one is that "the selfish gene" means that somehow there is a "gene for selfishness" which we all have. When the title of the book refers to the fact that it is the actual chromosomes which are selfish, yet are able to express themselves in ways that are not selfish to the *individual*.

One thing I think we could probably all agree on is that Dawkins is better than Matt Ridley.

Whenever i see his stupid pointed smug head on tv i want to tear it apart.

Richard Dawkins is a nasty man because he says its all a result of mechanical process'.

*explodes with rage*

DAWKINS HAS NEVER SAID THIS. In fact he has repeatedly and vigorously pointed out that this is not the case.

It really bugs me how someone whose most famous book was an attempt to explain altruistic behaviour in animals is regularly accused of promoting selfish behaviour in humans on the basis of the books bloody TITLE. READ THE FUCKING BOOK ALREADY!

Dawkins is left-wing and there's even some OTT sentence about how 'we alone in the animal kingdom have developed the power to overthrow the tyranny of our genes'. He also points out that we do this everytime we use a condom. Or was it have a wank? I can't remember.

wha? everyone advocates skepticism. it's a friggin skeptical world.

Dawkins did not invent memes, though he did popularise the term.

disturbing people is a good thing -- always?

Dawkins OTM!

oh right. well, i don't agree that you should bulldoze my house, but hey, i'm a rational being so i'll just have to sit on it.

why are political motivations -- such 'real world' things as nationalism, imperialism -- more rational than so-called delusional stuff (if you think you can separate our politics from the incroyable religious meme-web that is western culture)?

erm, just bloody loads of them, dude.

no, just with the chest-beating idiocy contained in statements such as the one quoted by momus.

"Eugenics: it works, bitches" - Richard Dawkins

He probably means ‘works’ in terms of population growth? I’m guessing there’s more cats & dogs than there used to be.

He expanded that what he meant was that just as we can breed cows to produce more milk, we could breed humans to run faster - but of course, he deplores the idea of eugenics; he's just stating the facts.

i really don't think we need to give him the benefit of having a clue what he's saying

Richard Dawkins is just a racist guy online, the things he says don’t have to mean anything

this fuckin dummy

Dawkins has spent much of his career calling anyone who believes in God or who studies religion a huge dumbass, so pivoting to being an anti-“war on Christmas” guy is.... something. pic.twitter.com/pBcEZH3taQ

— hannah gais (@hannahgais) December 24, 2020

His performative atheism has taken second place to his actual racism for years

dreaming of a white holiday huh

Great Thinker.

believes in the very real objective science of calipers and bell curves

for dawk so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son (the word "meme")

I would like to approach Richard with the idea of a "Dawkins Reacts" youtube channel, reckon there's a decent amount of grift out there currently up for grabs.

I guess it's irrational anger about something innocuous and I would never write an asinine tweet about it... but i loathe "happy holidays".

it comes from a place of acknowledging that significant numbers of your population have a non-Christian faith tho

happy holidays ledge

dick dork has always been a white supremacist first

yeah i sometimes feel inappropriate saying happy xmas but I can't bear the americanism, sorry to be racist against americans.

it doesn't work in a UK context because "holidays" means something different here.

don't know if Dawkins has taken any time to consider this, probably not but who knows what's going on in there

i agree it sounds awkward in uk usage sometimes but nobody most people sorry ledge lol complaining about it in public aren't complaining about the sounding awkward bit

happy holidays as praxis against anti-PC sentiment and anti-"americanism" language policing

I cannot think of any issue that matters less, especially this year, so bringing it up is obviously tied to an agenda

tbh i’m not sure dawkins has much of an agenda any more i think he’s just an old bellend.

What's this clown said now?

it doesn't work in a UK context because "holidays" means something different here.

To be fair, they only get like two days off a year over there.

dawkins has always had a racist eugenicist agenda, he just doesn't bother to temper it with liberal progressive pandering as much as he did for a while since everyone knows what he's about now

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/apr/20/richard-dawkins-loses-humanist-of-the-year-trans-comments

can't believe his atheism is just coded white supremacy

Shocked I tells ya..