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Richard Dawkins quits atheism foundation for backing transgender ‘religion’
(www.telegraph.co.uk)
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Did people still like Dawkins before this? I'm not an atheist or super interested in his particular field of biology, but every time I heard him get mentioned after his initial New Atheism stuff it was him being islamophobic/racist against Arabs, Iraq war apologia, being an apologist for sexual harassment, etc. He seemed pretty bad for a while.
I was peripherally aware of his biology work. He was asked to do some narration work on Nightwish's 2015 album which brought him top of mind for awhile, but I wasn't following closely. This is the first I'm hearing of anything like that. Disappointing, but not surprising.
the only thing i knew about him was that he was in a Nightwish song (The Greatest Show On Earth), so i kinda liked him before (didn't hear of the islamophobia or anything else), but uhh... not anymore.