Not that there's anything good about this, but hearing that both Steven Pinker and Richard Dawkins "resigned" from whatever honorary positions they had with the FFRF rather made my heart sink.

I was a linguistics student for a time, and Pinker's books always had a sociolinguistic aspect to them, but I never saw transphobia. It was admittedly a while back, so it really wasn't yet settling into the national consciousness.

I also admired Dawkins' writing style; again, I saw nothing transphobic.

So for both of these guys to be like "nope, you should have totally kept a piece up that says transwomen should have fewer rights and options" is, maybe, the final insult of 2024.

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[–] hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (10 children)

That's pretty damn disheartening, considering Richard Dawkins being one of the writers responsible for my world view today. His books really made me understand the questions I had about my beliefs in religion after growing up in a fundamentalist family, and my understanding of the beauty of evolution when all that info was skipped in a private religious schools

Truly a sad day to read this

[–] Enkrod@feddit.org 2 points 11 months ago

We can think for ourselves, we can look at Dawkins work and go: "That is reasonable, I agree with that." and look at his Tweets and go: "That is unreasonable and morally wrong, I don't agree with that."

We can look at them as teachers who teach us in their field of expertise, not as heroes we can aspire to be like.

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