If I’m trying to make a point with a single bolded sentence I would maybe choose my words carefully and not use the term for a broad group if I’m talking about a specific subset. They didn’t say ‘the new atheism movement’ they said ‘atheism’.
If I was ignorant on how fascism have been again entrenching itself in western society over the last 20 years, on how and through which pipelines ideologies were spread I would at least stay silent instead of trying to pull out semantics :v
So I guess by your logic it’s fair to say Islam is terroristic. Obviously distinguishing between the broader Islamic community and boko haram or al qaeda is just semantics.
*gotta wonder if the downvoters realize I was doing argumentum ad absurdum or if they think I was unironically saying that
Yeah surely broader islamic community congregated in millions on social media and forums between 2006 and 2016, mainly in western countries, mainly appealing to young disenfranchised men. To don’t know the context, you either got on to the internet in 2020’s or somehow, for 20 fucking years did not encounter an atheist from this batch, either irl or online. Or you’re deliberately bullshitting.
Your false dichotomy of every atheist is either a white supremacist or a communist is still completely batshit even if some fraction of new atheists fell into the far right pipeline.
Some new atheists went on to become fascist does not mean every person who followed r/atheism in 2010 is now a white supremacist or a communist, that’s fucking insane.
I’ve always read it as more of a warning. Warning as to what will happen when you leave out the fundamental issues, who’s interest will be then furthered, what will be ingrained in the conscious and subconscious of the masses.
And it’s not even mine, it’s a paraphrase of Chico Mendes.
If I’m trying to make a point with a single bolded sentence I would maybe choose my words carefully and not use the term for a broad group if I’m talking about a specific subset. They didn’t say ‘the new atheism movement’ they said ‘atheism’.
This is about how Atheism can (and has) be used for colonialism, not that it necessarily follows or must be an integral part of it.
Ironically the New Atheist movement primarily just recycles crusader-age Christian propaganda
If I was ignorant on how fascism have been again entrenching itself in western society over the last 20 years, on how and through which pipelines ideologies were spread I would at least stay silent instead of trying to pull out semantics :v
So I guess by your logic it’s fair to say Islam is terroristic. Obviously distinguishing between the broader Islamic community and boko haram or al qaeda is just semantics.
*gotta wonder if the downvoters realize I was doing argumentum ad absurdum or if they think I was unironically saying that
Yeah surely broader islamic community congregated in millions on social media and forums between 2006 and 2016, mainly in western countries, mainly appealing to young disenfranchised men. To don’t know the context, you either got on to the internet in 2020’s or somehow, for 20 fucking years did not encounter an atheist from this batch, either irl or online. Or you’re deliberately bullshitting.
Your false dichotomy of every atheist is either a white supremacist or a communist is still completely batshit even if some fraction of new atheists fell into the far right pipeline.
Some new atheists went on to become fascist does not mean every person who followed r/atheism in 2010 is now a white supremacist or a communist, that’s fucking insane.
I’ve always read it as more of a warning. Warning as to what will happen when you leave out the fundamental issues, who’s interest will be then furthered, what will be ingrained in the conscious and subconscious of the masses.
And it’s not even mine, it’s a paraphrase of Chico Mendes.