It's ridiculous for ppl to blame new-atheism for the alt-right, but, FWIW, I did find some of Dawkins' Islam tweets a bit OTT.
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I feel a bit of a traitor writing that, cos I don't really want to concede anything to people accusing him of hate-speech (and worse).
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I hold Dawkins in high regard, both as a scientist and a public intellectual. Plus, the few times we interacted, he was nothing but nice.
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But, for the record, sometimes I think he went a *bit* over the top.
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Which tweets were over the top out of curiosity? Genuinely wondering if I missed them.
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I thought the Jihadi Joe tweets were tasteless. I also remember him tweeting vid of some woman saying that if even a small
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percentage of muslims were violent, then we couldn't take any risks with muslims in general. (I hope I'm not misrepresenting)
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I think this was the argument that it didn't take all Germans being Nazis etc to make Nazism etc a huge problem
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Am organised minority was enough & so we shouldn't underestimate problem of Islamism coz most Muslims aren't.
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However, speaker (I think) was known for generalisations & was hostile so that reasonable point not whole story
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