#FtBCON: Atheism Is Not Enough panel
As proven by the deep rifts that exist within movement atheism, a common acknowledgement that there is no god is often not enough ground on which to build a coherent, lasting community. Social justice...
View ArticleConspiracy theories about Zimmerman’s car crash rescue
I don’t know if you’ve seen these, but they’re setting off all sorts of wishful-thinking and conspiracy theory alarms on my bullshit detection kit. Four days after being declared not guilty of murder...
View ArticleCraig Cobb’s got a little black in him
If you’ve never heard of him, this guy’s a real piece of work. White supremacist and leader of the so-called “Creative Movement”, Craig Cobb was born and raised in Boston. He grew disenchanted with...
View ArticleCrommunist imagines Macklemore and Tim Wise as a buddy cop story
Absolutely brilliant. What an inspiring story of overcoming adversity in the face of anti-white bigotry! (ELMORE and WISER sit at a dimly-lit bar, drinks in front of them. Music by Kenny G plays in the...
View ArticleMasculinism
Someone challenged Aron Ra to explain feminism to him via a Youtube video, begging every single one of the seven questions. Aron Ra gave laudable answers, though PZ Myers pointed out some errors and...
View ArticleBrief thoughts on Charlie Hebdo and freedom of speech
Satire depends heavily on the cultural context in which it was made. Charlie Hebdo is certainly a leftist rag, and certainly satire, and certainly understood as such within France’s cultural context....
View Article(Guest Post) Words of mass destruction: the weaponization of ‘free speech’
A guest post by Robert Fendt. Please address comments appropriately. :) (Note: this text deals with harassment, sexism, misogyny, racism and transphobia. Readers’ discretion is advised.) Dear reader:...
View ArticleThe bad logic of “Good People Can’t Be Sexists”
One of the things that makes me averse to getting into deep conversation lately about morality and about people’s sexist and racist behaviour is that we appear to be hard-wired to think the whole...
View ArticleConstructing an understanding of social constructs
Throughout the discussions on gender that have been sweeping through our circles of late, there’s been one particularly maddening dichotomy in thought that’s been thrown into sharp relief for me — that...
View ArticleOn the PR Disaster at #Skepticon and the lack of #ConcernedStudent1950...
Given how the late-addition “Q&A” session at Skepticon came into being, how it was sold to the convention, how it was advertised, and how it was “envisioned” by Danielle Muscato and Mark...
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