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[–][deleted] 14 insightful - 7 fun14 insightful - 6 fun15 insightful - 7 fun -  (3 children)

Have an ex-friend who was a self-proclaimed """skeptic""", and believed that the notion of god is utterly ridiculous but of COURSE the transgenders are heckin' valid and don't you dare question them!!

[–]Datachost 12 insightful - 1 fun12 insightful - 0 fun13 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

The early 00s crop of skeptics can essentially be split into two camps, those who were skeptics out of a sense of genuine conviction and those who went along with it, because it was the liberal position at the time. People like Dawkins can be put into the first camp, the second camp is people like Dillahunty, Myers, etc.

[–]ClassroomPast6178 8 insightful - 1 fun8 insightful - 0 fun9 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Matt Dillahunty and PZ Myers are two of the most annoying people.

Both of them were desperate to ride the coattails of Dawkins, Dennet, Hitchens and Harris, but I suspect when it comes to Myers he’s just not clever enough to make it in Dawkins’ academic footsteps and Dillahunty didn’t know how to deal with his new found fame and adoring fans and so threw his lot in with Atheism+.

It’s a shame, the early days of Dillahunty’s show were entertaining and informative, as were the early days of Pharyngula (before the Thunderf00t incident, which was hilarious).

[–]RedEyedWarriorThe Evil Cishomo 7 insightful - 2 fun7 insightful - 1 fun8 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

I used to be a "skeptic". These people are pathetic. The Skeptic CommunityTM on YouTube is dead and gone because they kept doxxing each other and exposing their fetishises to their audiences. For instance, I was a fan of Jeff Holiday until he doxxed people, and heard that he has a dildo collection in sight of his step son and let’s his wife cheat on him with another woman.