Dawkins Alert

[Cartoonist]

It's been a while since the story broke. Where is the pile-on of theists? It's also a twofer, they can jump on Bill Maher also.

[Lordquinton]

1. I don't know what happened

but you should post it before the usual anti-athists post it to steal our voice. Give it a good spin.

( to the creepers! keep watching our safe haven, you're doing god's work!)

[DetlefK]

2. The story where he piled on the kid that built that clock?

[bvf]

3. That's gotta be it.

Not sure where Maher figures into it, but I wasn't following that closely--only caught Dawkins's quibble about the use of the word "invented."

Still, the silence is strange. Maybe they're jazzed about Frank's visit.

[Cartoonist]

4. Extra! Read all about it.

http://www.salon.com/2015/09/21/the_despicable_backlash_against_ahmed_mohamed_its_nothing_new_for_white_america_to_see_the_gifted_other_as_its_greatest_threat/

[mr blur]

5. Drone...drone...blah blah...nasty atheists!1! Yawn.

Dawkins in not a white American and does this idiot really think that an Oxford professor really feels threatened by this "gifted other"?

Seems the "twittering classes" are not confined to Twitter.

[onager]

11. That writer is a SrIUS INTellekshul

Beginning of Arthur Chu's Wiki entry: Arthur Chu (born January 30, 1984) is an American game show contestant and columnist...

Gee, if I wanted to eliminate an Old White Guy like Dawkins from leadership in the atheist community, how would I go about it? Spend several decades working in science and receive some of its highest accolades? Write a slew of best-selling books?

Why hell no. I'd make a name for myself as a game show contestant. Then crap out envy-laden articles for Salon DEMANDING that me and my equally incompetent, non-acheiving friends be put in charge of leading the Atheist Movement.

I've read quite a lot of hogswallop from Chu and his friends. And based on that, I wouldn't trust them to successfully complete an Atheist Bowel Movement.

The swipe at "white Americans" including Dawkins is puzzling. Though I've seen a couple of similar Weirdities on the internet. Like Idris Elba described as "a great African-American actor" (he's British). And even weirder, Nelson Mandela described as a "great African-American leader" (he's just African, of course).

Maybe they think all black people are American? Surely not, since they're always screeching "racism" and "misogyny" from the rooftops. I mean, if anybody's an expert in racism, it should be the Chu Crew.

Adding - Soon as I saw the Dawkins gripe and the Salon link, I knew it would be either Arthur Chu or Adam Lee. While bitterly attacking Dawkins whenever possible, Lee's Salon tagline used to have a blatantly obsequious, fawning name-drop of Dawkins. I think RD approved of something Lee had written. I was going to write "blatantly ass-kissing" but I'm trying to be a nicer person. And if you believe that, I just translated some golden tablets...

[PeaceNikki]

6. I had this exchange yesterday here on DU

Them: You know, for an group that says it isn't a religion, he sure has a devoted cult of followers.
Me: So does Jimmy Buffet. A person with fans is not the definition of a religion.

[trotsky]

8. Ha! That's a great comparison. n/t

[Curmudgeoness]

10. Great comeback.

However, if you watch the Pope-mania right now, I think that you will change your opinion about a person with fans and religion. It seems that the Pope is the religion, at least for the RCC.

[trotsky]

7. There are many theists who hang on Dawkins' every word.

I'll have to rely on them to tell me what he's up to. They seem to obsess about him more than any atheist I've met.

[beam me up scottie]

9. Word.

He really brings out the worst in the anti-atheist whackos, they're positively unhinged.