Reminds me of Christopher Hitchens. A man who made a living on the talk show circuit by tweaking people's noses and saying "Are you mad? Are you mad, yet?"

All fun and games when the people getting tweaked were self-important holy rollers. But as soon as he saw a payday in pissing on anti-war protesters by calling them Islamists, the man was urinating like a fucking fire hose.

Dawkins is just a lower-rent Hitchens.

[–] CarbonScored@hexbear.net 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I really disagree. The guy was argumentative for the sake of it, but I don't think it's fair to say he was ungenuine or just chasing a pay day.

[–] BashfulBob@hexbear.net 20 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I don't think it's fair to say he was ungenuine or just chasing a pay day.

He did a good job of delivery early on. But once he started defending George Bush Jr - a man who stacked his career on phony religious pandering - the mask dropped like a rock. No one who goes this hard for an American Christian Conservative can possibly hold the views he claimed a decade earlier.

Maybe he changed over time. Or maybe Rupert Murdoch found the price for his soul. But the guy sold out hard all through the '00s.

[–] anarcho_blinkenist@hexbear.net 5 points 1 month ago

hitchens is the posterboy for the modern trot-to-neocon/fascist pipeline

[–] CarbonScored@hexbear.net 4 points 1 month ago

Fair enough, I've nowt to say but that I disagree.