What the fuck kind of weak-ass shit is that?by Mischief Creator 05/16/2018, 9:10pm PDT
Once upon a time I was a genetics major and really into the new atheists movement because they were fighting against efforts by the religious right to, if not ban teaching the theory of evolution outright, at least seriously confuse and mislead children by sneaking creationism into the curriculum rebranded as "Intelligent Design." Part of the new atheism movement was preparing professors to have public debates with ID proponents and recognize the dishonest rhetorical techniques they used to catch academics off guard and make them look bad in front of layman audiences. A precursor to the modern "OWNED" video on Youtube. I jumped ship from new atheism when the movement metastasized into a cheerleading squad for Iraq War 2: Electric Boogaloo, but I think it's instructive to take a little trip down memory lane and see the similarities between Intelligent Design and "The Intellectual Dark Web" of today:
It's the same shit! College campuses are controlled by a mass conspiracy to indoctrinate the youth and silence the free and open exchange of ideas that a group of rebels are bringing to the public, with just a little support from billionaire-funded interest groups, like the outsiders they are! I mean, if it's an opinion, it's of equally valid as any other, amiright? But equally cherry-picked pseudoscience from Jordan Peterson presented in the same conspiratorial context is capturing the minds and hearts of the militant atheists of today?
But now we've got a generation of Atheists who laughed along to Hitchslap videos hearing the exact same arguments coming out of this sexually frustrated Kermit figure and being entranced? How much of a sheep can you be?!