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The Left and Their Cancel Culture!

Goddamned lefties and their cancel culture, as the Boston Globe reports: As the debate over the teaching of critical race theory in the classroom intensifies across the country, the firing of a Tennessee teacher last month emerged as a flashpoint in the discussion over the weekend. Matthew Hawn, who had

Freedom of Speech Advocates as Hypocritical Right-Wingers Wanting Permission to Offend

This is such a common problem; those who claim that they are advocates of freedom of speech merely do so because they want to be able to offend people freely and with no consequences. Rights should come with responsibilities, but in this context, it is more often about demanding rights

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A Note on Commenting

You know my position on commenting, and many of you lament my lax approach. As I have said many times before, I hope that this allows for reasonable freedom of speech in such a way that people are hoist by their own petard. The flipside is that we often get

Religious Rivals Unite in Celebration Over Today’s Supreme Court First Amendment Ruling

This is from the American Humanist Association: Today, the American Humanist Association (AHA) celebrates this morning’s Supreme Court’s ruling, Uzuegbunam v. Preczewski, alongside typical opponent, Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF). This ruling upheld (8-1) a critical remedy in First Amendment cases. “Today’s ruling is a victory for the

The Free Market and Big Tech

The Free Market and Big Tech

...the right still lays claim to America’s most-watched cable-news network, highest-rated political talk-radio shows, and most-read Facebook articles. The algorithmic programming of Facebook and Twitter — which directs readers away from dry reporting on local corruption and toward lurid conspiracy theories — has been a boon to the right in this

Is "Cancel Culture" Butchering the Centre?

Cancel culture is the talk of the town. What is it, for those uninitiated? The act of canceling, also referred to as cancel culture (a variant on the term "callout culture"), describes a form of boycott in which an individual (usually a celebrity) who has acted or spoken

Trump Is Ripping up the Constitution and His Supporters Don't Care

It's hard not to be obsessed with politic at the moment; it is all-consuming, it is everywhere. I have argued over the Consitution with Trump cultists here many times and they appear to obsess over it. The drool over their own justification of the document. When it is

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Freedom of Speech and Offence: The ACA and Rationality Rules

I know nothing about these two entities, really, but here is my view on recent goings-on. In case you are essentially as ignorant as me: So, who are they? ACA - The Atheist Community of Austin, producers of The Atheist Experience that has long been a platform for Matt Dillahunty

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NZ Lecturer Gets into Trouble for Attacking Religion

An interesting piece of news came out of New Zealand over the last few days. Here is the NZ Herald: A university lecturer is under fire after implying employers should not hire Muslim workers because they stop to pray five times a day. Dr Raymond Richards, who teaches American history

Trump Edging Ever Closer to Authoritarian Dictatorship

Trump is becoming more controversial by the day. I have been worried of his intentions to dismantle democratic processes and institutions. For example, only the other day Sean Spicer decreed that certain news media were not allowed into a press gaggle, including the BBC, CNN and others. Now we have

My letter to Goldsmiths in support of Maryam Namazie

For what it's worth, I wrote a letter to the Goldsmiths Student Union and University Communications team in support of Maryam Namazie. If you are unaware of what has recently been going on, Namazie, an atheist ex-Muslim secularist was asked to speak to the Goldsmiths Uni Atheists and Humanists. Howe

Evolution, Censorship and Adam Deen

Adam Deen is a Muslim apologist famous in the UK for defending, publicly, the philosophy and theology of Islam often touching on scientific contexts. Skydivephil is an awesome duo who you might remember from here who often have William Lane Craig in their sights (where in the linked video they o