Richard Dawkins "no platformed" at

[TSwizzle]

Berkeley, of course. Apparently he expressed a dim view of teh islam.

A US radio station invited Richard Dawkins to speak about his latest book, and then cancelled the ticketed event over his tweets about Islam.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/w...s-atheist-kpfa-us-university-of-a7854751.html

What a sad state of affairs.

 

[untermensche]

You mean a private company located in Berkeley cancelled an event.

They didn't silence him.

He is allowed to speak freely and tweet whatever he wants.

He just can't do it without suffering the consequences of offending people.

 

[Mumbles]

Yeah, article makes no mention of any sort of campaign to have the event canceled - and although I wouldn't be shocked to see some black bloc idiots show up to protest (those idiots violently protest everything), i also can't see putting someone like Dawkins in with real-life trolls like Ann Coulter or Milo Yapedoapologist.

 

[untermensche]

They see him as part of a group that is whitewashing all of Islam with the crimes of the most radical that have been deliberately stirred up by an incredibly violent terrorist attack of Iraq and surrounding nations by the US, Britain and others.

ISIS arose because of the terrorist attack of Iraq.

We are still living with the consequences of that massive crime for which nobody was ever punished.

 

[TSwizzle]

Yeah, article makes no mention of any sort of campaign to have the event canceled - and although I wouldn't be shocked to see some black bloc idiots show up to protest (those idiots violently protest everything), i also can't see putting someone like Dawkins in with real-life trolls like Ann Coulter or Milo Yapedoapologist.

There is something not quite right about it. Fake news or manufactured.

 

[repoman]

ISIS and the groups it came from were armed by some foreign governments (including the US) for the purpose of overthrowing Assad. Same as the US did funding Contras and nasty folks elsewhere in the world. The people at the top of the US are ruthless killers as always and in 30 years from now the ISIS funding will not be controversial or threaten our narcissistic self image as "Americans".

ISIS is piggybacking off of the ready made mental slavery handbook that is the Quran and Hadiths.

Also I think whitewashing is not the right word, that is for making a bad thing look fine.

 

[untermensche]

ISIS and the groups it came from were armed by some foreign governments (including the US) for the purpose of overthrowing Assad. Same as the US did funding Contras and nasty folks elsewhere in the world. The people at the top of the US are ruthless killers as always and in 30 years from now the ISIS funding will not be controversial or threaten our narcissistic self image as "Americans".

ISIS is piggybacking off of the ready made mental slavery handbook that is the Quran and Hadiths.

Also I think whitewashing is not the right word, that is for making a bad thing look fine.

ISIS is taking those made easy slaves by indoctrination and radicalizing them.

There was no sectarian violence in Iraq for hundreds of years until the US terrorist attack and terrorist occupation.

Iran was a secular democracy until the US orchestrated coup to install a dictator.

The Saudi Arabian dictatorship, the largest cause of radicalism in the ME, has been fully supported by the US and Britain for decades.

Radicalism in the ME is not some natural progression of Islam.

It is the natural progression of violent external control of a region by imperialists for decades.

 

[repoman]

Well Dawkins bashes all religions fairly equally. I don't know what he thinks about imperial factors.

Dawkins is not the same as Ann Coulter.

 

[untermensche]

Well Dawkins bashes all religions fairly equally. I don't know what he thinks about imperial factors.

Dawkins is not the same as Ann Coulter.

He doesn't blame Christianity for crazy fundamentalists like GW Bush.

But somehow blames Islam for every crazy suicidal nut that arises.

 

[Warpoet]

Tempest in a teapot, as per usual. No radio station is under any obligation to interview anybody, and Dawkins has said plenty of stupid shit over the years and just generally ought to shut the fuck up about matters outside his area of expertise (or at least get off of Twitter). The station's mistake was inviting him in the first place as his dumb ass tweets have been floating around for years now.

 

[TSwizzle]

Tempest in a teapot, as per usual. No radio station is under any obligation to interview anybody, and Dawkins has said plenty of stupid shit over the years and just generally ought to shut the fuck up about matters outside his area of expertise (or at least get off of Twitter). The station's mistake was inviting him in the first place as his dumb ass tweets have been floating around for years now.

Like a moth to a flame.

 

[Mumbles]

Tempest in a teapot, as per usual. No radio station is under any obligation to interview anybody, and Dawkins has said plenty of stupid shit over the years and just generally ought to shut the fuck up about matters outside his area of expertise (or at least get off of Twitter). The station's mistake was inviting him in the first place as his dumb ass tweets have been floating around for years now.

To be honest, there are many famous, and highly intelligent, people who need to stay off of Twitter or at least hire a PR expert to run their feed, so Dawkins would hardly be alone in that regard.

 

[Tom Sawyer]

What did he say about Islam that was so bad? The article didn't mention that.

 

[Warpoet]

Like a moth to a flame.

Says the guy who posted this on a public forum as if anybody else ought to give a shit.

 

[TSwizzle]

Like a moth to a flame.

Says the guy who posted this on a public forum as if anybody else ought to give a shit.

Moth to a flame.

 

[Warpoet]

What did he say about Islam that was so bad? The article didn't mention that.

Not the best source, but this isn't really important enough to research anyway:

http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Richard_Dawkins#Islamophobia

Also covers dumb shit he's said about other issues. He's one of those intellectuals who has succeeded in his field of expertise to the point where he feels he's entitled to comment on matters in which he holds no expertise and ends up making himself look like a twat.

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Moth to a flame.

Dickhead who can't defend the irrelevant crap he posts.

 

[TSwizzle]

To be honest, there are many famous, and highly intelligent, people who need to stay off of Twitter or at least hire a PR expert to run their feed, so Dawkins would hardly be alone in that regard.

Why ? To sanitize?

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Moth to a flame.

Dickhead who can't defend the irrelevant crap he posts.

Irrelevant gobshite.

 

[Warpoet]

Yeah, you've only used that one a few hundred times, right?

Look, if you're too fucking dumb to contribute anything to your own threads and instead have to fall back on worn-out name-calling, you shouldn't be starting them in the first place.

 

[TSwizzle]

Yeah, you've only used that one a few hundred times, right?

Look, if you're too fucking dumb to contribute anything to your own threads and instead have to fall back on worn-out name-calling, you shouldn't be starting them in the first place.

Behave yourself.

 

[Derec]

You mean a private company located in Berkeley cancelled an event.

While private, KPFA is a supposedly liberal/progressive radio station owned by a non-profit foundation. As such, it is really sad but unsurprising that they block opinions not in line with their increasingly narrow doctrines.

However, that goes contrary to the actual meaning of "liberalism" and even contrary to their own mission statement.

To promote cultural diversity and pluralistic community expression
To contribute to a lasting understanding between individuals of all nations, races, creeds and colors
To promote freedom of the press and serve as a forum for various viewpoints
To maintain an independent funding base

What hypocrites!