Thursday, 6 May 2021

"Figuring things out on the spot"

Julia Galef on Richard Dawkins in 2015
Richard Dawkins (a hero of mine) had his recent "transphobe" imbroglio. He tweeted the above yesterday (click screenshot to go to vid as something of what he was trying to do. Fair enough. And good, too. Hos tweet.
Dear Richard, how about figuring out also why it is the "one divides into two", that democratic nations have electorates that divide into two, almost equal blocks? Can one side be fully virtuous and the other side fully wicked? 
Discuss. …
(Dawkins seems to have a blind eye when it comes to Republicans. To him, as far as his tweets attest, they are nothing but "deplorables", pig-ignorant troglodytes only to be despised. I say that's a blind spot in this otherwise spotless mind).