Founder & President @AtheistsLiberty. Founding Member/Committee Co-Chair @CLARITyCoaltion. American, Activist, New Atheist, & Freethinker. Views are my own.
“The idea that any one of our religions represents the infallible word of the One True God requires an encyclopedic ignorance of history, mythology, and art even to be entertained.” — Sam Harris
Everything @HPluckrose writes is worth reading and this time is no different as she shows why banning bad ideas backfires. Counter them with good ideas. I’ve refuted Holocaust denial, for example, but defended their right to think and speak their egregiously wrong beliefs.
If you haven’t yet subscribed to my YouTube channel, I urge you to consider doing so! If you enjoy political, social, and cultural commentary from a philosophical perspective, you will certainly enjoy what I have to offer! Subscribe here: https://t.co/zI0ex8wMtY
I think a lot of people have woken up to the conclusion that the only way to burn off the woke mind virus is to actually not care about racism or about being racist at all.
Pretty soon, if it’s not already happening, anyone crying about racism will met with the default response:
“So what?”
Do you really want white people checking out like this? Because this is the predictable, exhausted endpoint of weaponizing race for power.
Believe me when I say that we will all come to miss the days when the word ‘racism’ actually meant something, back when white people still cared about not being called racist.
Gen Z guys are already there. Once that word is completely drained of any real meaning or moral weight, we’ll all rue the day we let it happen.
Fifty years ago, The Selfish Gene was published. The ideas — replicators, memes, the gene's-eye view of life — have held up rather well. The 50th Anniversary Edition is out now.
Available at: https://t.co/UUpOxy2MTa