Lawrence Krauss, Richard Dawkins, Steven Pinker and other anti-trans influencers personally benefited from a right-wing academic social group backed by infamous human trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, sometimes meeting at his island.

Lawrence Krauss, Richard Dawkins, Steven Pinker and other anti-trans influencers personally benefited from a right-wing academic social group backed by infamous human trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, sometimes meeting at his island.

  • osanna@thebrainbin.org
    40·
    3 days ago

    wait, richard dawkins is antitrans? that’s disappointing :/

    ETA: I read the rest. dawkins went on the lolita island? Sigh.

    • Ada@lemmy.blahaj.zoneM
      13·
      2 days ago

      Dawkins has been openly racist and islamophobic (not simply “outspoken atheist”, but explicitly islamophobic) for a very long time now. Being transphobic is part of that package :\

        • OneWomanCreamTeam@sh.itjust.works
          8·
          2 days ago

          The root belief of bigotry is “there are groups of people that are inherently evil/lesser/worthless because of how they’re born”. Once you apply that to one group it’s very easy to apply it to others.

          That’s why you gotta attack the root belief. It’s not enough to say “bigotry against this group is wrong!” We have to reject bigotry at it’s very core, if we don’t we leave fertile ground for it to regrow.

    • Deacon@lemmy.world
      30·
      3 days ago

      Dawkins has been more of a liability than anything lately anyway. I’m not surprised. He’s a self professed “cultural Christian” which is to me the worst of all worlds.

      It is essentially the position that “I’m a bigot even though no sky daddy is telling me to be.

      Now if Hitch were there…I would be bereft.