‘That’s All There Is To It’: Famed Biologist Confirms ‘There Are Two Sexes,’ Defends J.K. Rowling | The Daily Wire

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[–]xoenix 10 insightful - 2 fun10 insightful - 1 fun11 insightful - 2 fun -  (4 children)

University students have had their profs reprimanded or fired(?) for saying there are only 2 sexes. I read somewhere that in recent years thousands of academics have been retired, fired or otherwise punished, apparently for subject matter or opinions.

[–]chottohen 8 insightful - 2 fun8 insightful - 1 fun9 insightful - 2 fun -  (3 children)

This is really regrettable since the whole idea of a university is to hear a range of opinions. If you prescribe an opinion, then the students' ideas are not really involved. If you proscribe opinions you are also restricting the opinions a student may have. That is the objection I have toward the Politically Correct approach to teaching—the correct way to think about a subject has already been chosen for the students—they do not have to think.

[–]Vulptexghost fox girl ^w^ 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Everyone but me seems to hate philosophy because there's no "right answers".

[–]OuroborosTheory 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

as the joke goes, the other disciplines are dedicated to finding the answer to questions, while philosophy's about whether you're even asking the right questions to begin with (or it's just hairsplitting about categories and/or incessant abuse of Boolean operators)

[–]Vulptexghost fox girl ^w^ 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Not good for sheeple

[–]jacques1102[S] 10 insightful - 1 fun10 insightful - 0 fun11 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

I'm not an atheist but it makes a lot of sense that dawkins would speak out against this.Gender bender ideology demands a kind of dualism of body and soul. Dawkins being a materialist denies the latter. After years of arguing for materialism it’d be bizarre for him to now suddenly affirm some nonphysical soul realm that identifies independently of the body.

[–]Datachost 9 insightful - 1 fun9 insightful - 0 fun10 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Dawkins has been pretty consistent in his views, you have to give him that at least. Doesn't care who he pisses off, he's criticised Islam for the same things he's criticised Christianity for. He's been in the news the last couple of years for criticising New Zealand's plans to put Maori "ways of knowing" (basically their creation myths) alongside evolution in biology lessons.

[–]ClassroomPast6178 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Interestingly, during the interview with Morgan he stopped short of saying anything about Islam (in a very pointed manner when when directly asked by Morgan for his opinions on Rushdie etc). I think the attack on Salman Rushdie has caused him to censor himself on this one matter, and I suspect it’s because he’s quite frail, as is his wife these days, and it wouldn’t take much of an assault to do serious harm to him. He used to be hell for leather in criticism of Islam. That stroke has really taken its toll on him.

His commentary on gender identity theory is exactly where you would expect the author of The God Delusion to be, utter disbelief and a desire to hear the evidence supporting it but knowing there is none.

[–]IMissPorn 7 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 0 fun8 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

No shit.

Man, isn't it crazy when it takes some kind of iconoclast to speak up for what should be simple common sense?

[–]hfxB0oyADon't piss on my head & tell me it's raining. 4 insightful - 3 fun4 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

I'm still absolutely shocked that this is news.

[–]Wanderingthehalls 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

IIRC, last year Dawkins read Kathleen Stock's book Material Girls, the publication of which resulted in her being forced to leave her position as a professor at Sussex University. Dawkins tweeted that he was reading it and found it well researched and presented. Obviously he got a twitter pile on for that. The next day he tweeted that he was attacked while driving his car and his car damaged. It definitely seemed like it was implied that he suspected the two were connected. Even if they weren't he was shaken enough by the response to him saying a book was well researched that an unpleasant real life event felt linked.

I think up to that point he hadn't felt like this was an issue that seemed that important. Similar to Prof Robert Winston, he obviously knew that there were two sexes but mostly assumed that the handful of people wanting to live as the opposite could just be treated with quiet politeness. Which is honestly where most people were and many still are. But once you raise your head up and make an innocent point that is obvious common sense that you assume won't be disagreed with or you notice that some people are being hounded for doing that, that you suddenly realise that this has gotten serious and scary while you weren't paying attention.

[–]ClassroomPast6178 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

He posted a discussion question to Twitter, asking “if transgenderism why not transracialism, discuss” after reading either Stock’s book or Joyce’s. The twitter post brought the full wrath of the rainbow mafia, quisling academia and gormless media.

[–]Airbus320 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

u/womenopausal would be happy