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Richard Dawkins is a eugenicist

AtlantaAdonis said:
https://twitter.com/RichardDawkins/status/1229083369641824266

What a vile and disgusting person. Can we please start ostracizing bigots like Dawkins from the secular humanist community and stop putting them on intellectual pedestals?
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He is indeed in many ways a vile and disgusting person, but he said twice, clearly, that he deplores eugenics and a third time that it "would be bad." It's right there at your link in plain, simple English, which you should have been able to comprehend.

His point was also stated multiple times, again in plain, simple English, so don't bother asking me what his point is. Read the words which appear when one clicks your link.
 
The dude knows how to sell books.
 
I think most missed his point, however, like Hawking, people will continue to misunderstand and misrepresent him. It's human nature.
 
"I think racism is awful, folks...but don't you think Hitler had a point that jews are bad?"
 
AtlantaAdonis said:
"I think racism is awful, folks...but don't you think Hitler had a point that jews are bad?"
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So, of course, you're really doing this.

For what it's worth, I no longer think you're a Poe.
 
calamity said:
He's basically saying Eugenics is morally wrong but scientifically sound. Best is to combat it from the position of morality than to deny the science.

Why is this hard to understand?
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To be honest, I didn't even realize there were people that didn't think eugenics would work on humans the same way it does for other plants and animals.
 
No, no he isn't.

Let's try making his point another way. Eugenics is a bad idea because inevitably it becomes a question of some spurious "race purity." However, putting the morality of it to one side, there is no doubt it would work. It has worked on Dogs, Cats, Horses, Cows etc., there is NO doubt it would work on humans even if done the old-fashioned way of simply breeding for the characteristics wanted over generations.
 
'Cuz, you know, Dopey Dicky Dawkins is da devil 'n stuff, 'n he doesn't know what he is talking about 'cuz he is an internet skeptic and new afeist....'n stuff. :shock:
 
AtlantaAdonis said:
"I think racism is awful, folks...but don't you think Hitler had a point that jews are bad?"
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You appear to be doing your best to supply good reasoning in favor of some denial of reproduction to some people. I don't think you would like that.
 
I think you can see in this thread how Trump inculcates even people who aren't his supporters into certain toxic modes of bigoted thinking. Nothing but crickets with a few scattered thoughtless defenses of Dawkins. I am glad I have Twitter where more people seem to understand the gravity of these words from an influential science communicator to keep my sanity and give me some hope.
 
Yes of course, the musings of those challenged in comprehension on twitter is the pinnacle of human thought.
 
AtlantaAdonis said:
I think you can see in this thread how Trump inculcates even people who aren't his supporters into certain toxic modes of bigoted thinking. Nothing but crickets with a few scattered thoughtless defenses of Dawkins. I am glad I have Twitter where more people seem to understand the gravity of these words from an influential science communicator to keep my sanity and give me some hope.
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What exactly was bigoted about what he said?
 
goldkam said:
How is he vile and disgusting when he simply speaks his reasoned views from scientific fact??
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Don't put too much confidence in Dawkins. He does not know how life began on earth but he swears ignorance was involved in the design and God wasn't. He is full of it. His opinions are full of crap.
 
marke said:
Don't put too much confidence in Dawkins. He does not know how life began on earth but he swears ignorance was involved in the design and God wasn't. He is full of it. His opinions are full of crap.
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As are yours, for he asserts no such thing.
 
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