The scourge of political correctness has hit Richard Dawkins yet again. Just days before he was to give the keynote speech at The Northeast Conference on Science and Skepticism (NECSS) he was disinvited because Professor Dawkins retweeted a song in a video making fun of both Islam and radical feminism.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ecJUqhm2g08 He tweeted the link with this caveat "Obviously this doesn't apply to the vast majority of feminists, among whom I count myself. But the minority is pernicious". Soon afterward he learned that the woman in the song was based on a real woman who had allegedly been threatened online for her activities, so Professor Dawkins sent another tweet "Having learned that the woman in the joke song is a real person who has been disgracefully threatened with violence, I'm deleting my tweets. PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE don't EVER threaten anyone with violence. We should be free to use comedy/ridicule without fear it may inspire violence". That was not good enough for the humorless moral paragons over at NECSS because they kicked him out at the last moment saying the video was racist; although given the fact that neither muslims nor women nor feminists nor radical feminists are examples of races NECSS was unable to specify what race the song was making fun of. Apparently The Northeast Conference on Science and Skepticism is also skeptical of the value of logic as were the people who were outraged a few years ago when Professor Dawkins wrote "Mild pedophilia is bad. Violent pedophilia is worse. If you think that's an endorsement of mild pedophilia, go away and learn how to think." John K Clark -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
