Richard Dawkins Event Canceled Over Past Comments About Islam

[LAGC]

A public radio station in Berkeley, Calif., said it canceled a live discussion and book signing with the evolutionary biologist and noted atheist Richard Dawkins because of his past comments criticizing Islam.

Mr. Dawkins was to promote his new book, “Science in the Soul: Selected Writings of a Passionate Rationalist,” before an audience of hundreds of paying ticket holders on Aug. 9. The event was also to be a fund-raiser for its host, the radio station KPFA.

The station sent an email to ticketholders on Thursday that praised the book but apologized for not having “broader knowledge” of his views much earlier. It added that Mr. Dawkins had hurt people with “his tweets and other comments on Islam.”
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Some of the first objections to Mr. Dawkins’s appearance came from Bay Area residents. They pointed to his tweets like one posted in 2013 in which he called Islam “the greatest force for evil in the world today.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/24/us/richard-dawkins-speech-canceled-berkeley.html

Fucking pussies. Berkeley's become a joke. "Free speech" epicenter my ass. :jerk-n-off:

[alismith]

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/24/us/richard-dawkins-speech-canceled-berkeley.html

Fucking pussies. Berkeley's become a joke. "Free speech" epicenter my ass. :jerk-n-off:

Well, I guess Berkeley students can't stand to hear the truth. islam IS the greatest force for evil in the world today.

p.s. It's nice that those students are protected and shielded from hearing those dreadful, truthful facts that some are saying. We wouldn't want to make them seek out safe rooms to color in....They are so delicate.

[El Jefe]

When Cultural Marxism eats its own.

[raxar]

When Cultural Marxism eats its own.

Yep, this is the kind of bullshit LAGC has spent his whole life bringing about, if only he would have been warned......

[Justin]

I guarantee if Richard Dawkins said the same thing about Christianity, he'd be welcomed with open arms. The double standard is real!

[LAGC]

I guarantee if Richard Dawkins said the same thing about Christianity, he'd be welcomed with open arms. The double standard is real!

That's just it. Dawkins HAS said quite a few things about Christianity, none of them too flattering, but no one seems to have a problem with that.

He's an equal opportunity basher of religion, but for some reason the whole "criticize Islam" thing strikes a raw nerve with people for some reason.

What's sad is that Berekely WAS once home of the "free speech movement", clear back from the Vietnam anti-war protest days of the 1960s... where you could freely speak unpopular opinions about anything you wanted and not get shut down.

This PC culture is getting out of control. And it's not just the university campuses. This was a progressive radio station, also a long-time champion of free speech. It sets a very dangerous precedent whenever institutions cower to public outcry just because some group or another is "offended" at what someone has to say.

[l921428x]

Yep, this is the kind of bullshit LAGC has spent his whole life bringing about, if only he would have been warned......

But we did/have warned him.

[alismith]

That's just it. Dawkins HAS said quite a few things about Christianity, none of them too flattering, but no one seems to have a problem with that.

He's an equal opportunity basher of religion, but for some reason the whole "criticize Islam" thing strikes a raw nerve with people for some reason.

What's sad is that Berekely WAS once home of the "free speech movement", clear back from the Vietnam anti-war protest days of the 1960s... where you could freely speak unpopular opinions about anything you wanted and not get shut down.

This PC culture is getting out of control. And it's not just the university campuses. This was a progressive radio station, also a long-time champion of free speech. It sets a very dangerous precedent whenever institutions cower to public outcry just because some group or another is "offended" at what someone has to say.

That ship sailed a long time ago. It's already out of control.

[mrkalashnikov]

Berkeley has been a joke for the last 50+ years. Filled with the rich sons & daughters of the very class they purport to despise.

[JTHunter]

Forty years ago, colleges were places where (almost) any and all ideas could be discussed, sometimes violently. The college I went to had endured riots less than 10 years before that burned down one of the buildings that was used by the ROTC program.
Twenty years ago, through the experiences of my brother's children at a larger university in north-central Illinois, I could see how they were being "influenced" - and NOT for the better. One of those children even worked at the Sundance Film Festival a year or two after graduation, further cementing their "infatuation" with Hollyweird "elites". Even when they were in school at this university, there was ample evidence of how dissenting viewpoints were either shouted down or physically intimidated.

[5.56NATO]

When Cultural Marxism eats its own.

Their most hated enemy is christianity, however can't have the atheist socialist pacifist branch of satanism calling out the proactive jihad branch of satanism. Satanic jihad is the means to the end, and you know how they are all about the end justifies the means.

[Krupski]

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/24/us/richard-dawkins-speech-canceled-berkeley.html

Fucking pussies. Berkeley's become a joke. "Free speech" epicenter my ass. :jerk-n-off:

Universities are NOT centers of free speech. Haven't been for decades.

[El Jefe]

That's just it. Dawkins HAS said quite a few things about Christianity, none of them too flattering, but no one seems to have a problem with that.

He's an equal opportunity basher of religion, but for some reason the whole "criticize Islam" thing strikes a raw nerve with people for some reason.

What's sad is that Berekely WAS once home of the "free speech movement", clear back from the Vietnam anti-war protest days of the 1960s... where you could freely speak unpopular opinions about anything you wanted and not get shut down.

This PC culture is getting out of control. And it's not just the university campuses. This was a progressive radio station, also a long-time champion of free speech. It sets a very dangerous precedent whenever institutions cower to public outcry just because some group or another is "offended" at what someone has to say.


You stupid nigger this is the shit you've been fighting for your entire adult life and all of a sudden its now a problem? LMAO!

And there was no free speech at Berkely in the 60's. Then as now there was only approved leftist speech. I'd suggest you study the Frankfurt School and Cultural Marxism to begin to figure out what we're up against.

[T2K]

Dude, cool it with all the "nigger" and "jew" stuff. Leftists are the damn problem and they come in all shades and stripes, meanwhile normal Americans do too. Lefists hate people based on identity politics and labels, don't be like them. Hate people based on their individual actions that make them worth hating.

[1 Patriot-of-many]

That's just it. Dawkins HAS said quite a few things about Christianity, none of them too flattering, but no one seems to have a problem with that.

He's an equal opportunity basher of religion, but for some reason the whole "criticize Islam" thing strikes a raw nerve with people for some reason.

What's sad is that Berekely WAS once home of the "free speech movement", clear back from the Vietnam anti-war protest days of the 1960s... where you could freely speak unpopular opinions about anything you wanted and not get shut down.

This PC culture is getting out of control. And it's not just the university campuses. This was a progressive radio station, also a long-time champion of free speech. It sets a very dangerous precedent whenever institutions cower to public outcry just because some group or another is "offended" at what someone has to say. I actually expect that of you. You may be a lefty, but you are an honest lefty that thinks and sees, doesn't have a rock solid see no hypocrisy, talk no hypocrisy, hear no hypocrisy like most leftists. I'm glad you are back.

[l921428x]

Dude, cool it with all the "nigger" and "jew" stuff. Leftists are the damn problem and they come in all shades and stripes, meanwhile normal Americans do too. Lefists hate people based on identity politics and labels, don't be like them. Hate people based on their individual actions that make them worth hating.

Actually one of the mods should have popped him but it is in another thread also by a different member.
Gets to far along and you will see some really strange fuckers start to show up. But it is not my site.

I mean I said it a few months back and I was not overlooked. But boy I was pissed.

[stevelyn]

I liked Richard Dawkins better when he was slam-dunking bassitballs and shattering backboards.

[raxar]

I actually expect that of you. You may be a lefty, but you are an honest lefty that thinks and sees, doesn't have a rock solid see no hypocrisy, talk no hypocrisy, hear no hypocrisy like most leftists. I'm glad you are back.

What are you talking about? The only reason this bothers him is because its one of his pet groups being silenced. He doesn't give a shit about the free speech of people he doesn't like.

[LAGC]

What are you talking about? The only reason this bothers him is because its one of his pet groups being silenced. He doesn't give a shit about the free speech of people he doesn't like.

raxar, it bothers me just as much when it's folks like Ann Coulter and Milo getting their free speech shut down.

I've been a card-carrying member of the ACLU for over 20 years, and they feel the same way.

No speech is so dangerous that it can't at least be allowed to be heard. If one disagrees with what someone has to say, then just deny them an audience and don't show up. Or DO show up and debate with them.

Censorship is uncalled for, in any case.

[El Jefe]

Dude, cool it with all the "nigger" and "jew" stuff. Leftists are the damn problem and they come in all shades and stripes, meanwhile normal Americans do too. Lefists hate people based on identity politics and labels, don't be like them. Hate people based on their individual actions that make them worth hating.

Jews and niggers are all leftists and you are fucking clueless. Its clueless fucks such as yourself that the left love and they require you to continue our destruction.

Name 10 conservative blacks. What do you gain by white knighting for these grifters?

Name 10 conservative Jews. What do you gain by white knighting for these Satan worshipers?

You are a coward, you're terrified of being called a racist tho you don't know why.

[El Jefe]

Actually one of the mods should have popped him but it is in another thread also by a different member.
Gets to far along and you will see some really strange fuckers start to show up. But it is not my site.

I mean I said it a few months back and I was not overlooked. But boy I was pissed.


Cry more bitch. You can have your pathetic little circle jerk of the same 11 or so cucks, I'm done.

[Krupski]

Dude, cool it with all the "nigger" and "jew" stuff. Leftists are the damn problem and they come in all shades and stripes, meanwhile normal Americans do too. Lefists hate people based on identity politics and labels, don't be like them. Hate people based on their individual actions that make them worth hating.

If blacks can get on national TV and call for the outright killing of whites and pray to see "the blood of white people flow through the streets", then IMHO Jefferson's casual use of the word "nigger" pales by comparison.

I know that it's really "not appropriate", but given today's racial climate and the black's utter hatred of white people (which they take NO pains to conceal), I think "what's good for the goose is good for the gander".

By the way, do you know the history of the 17 May 1943 raid the British carried out called "Operation Chastise"... the "bouncing bomb" attack on Nazi German dams in the Ruhr valley?

The code words used for the Möhne dam attack were "GONER" (meaning that the bomb was dropped) and "NIGGER" (meaning successful destruction of the dam).

The code word "NIGGER" came from mission commander Guy Gibson ("Nigger" was his dog's name).

So quit yer whining.

[Krupski]

Actually one of the mods should have popped him but it is in another thread also by a different member.
Gets to far along and you will see some really strange fuckers start to show up. But it is not my site.

I mean I said it a few months back and I was not overlooked. But boy I was pissed.

I was not aware of anyone saying anything to you about language use here. What happened (if I may ask)?

[Krupski]

raxar, it bothers me just as much when it's folks like Ann Coulter and Milo getting their free speech shut down.

I've been a card-carrying member of the ACLU for over 20 years, and they feel the same way.

No speech is so dangerous that it can't at least be allowed to be heard. If one disagrees with what someone has to say, then just deny them an audience and don't show up. Or DO show up and debate with them.

Censorship is uncalled for, in any case.

What is this world coming to? I agree with you again!

[Krupski]

Cry more bitch. You can have your pathetic little circle jerk of the same 11 or so cucks, I'm done.


Dude, cool it with all the "nigger" and "jew" stuff. Leftists are the damn problem and they come in all shades and stripes, meanwhile normal Americans do too. Lefists hate people based on identity politics and labels, don't be like them. Hate people based on their individual actions that make them worth hating.

Come on gentlemen. Let it go. No need to get pissed off. We're all the same here.

[raxar]

raxar, it bothers me just as much when it's folks like Ann Coulter and Milo getting their free speech shut down.

I've been a card-carrying member of the ACLU for over 20 years, and they feel the same way.

No speech is so dangerous that it can't at least be allowed to be heard. If one disagrees with what someone has to say, then just deny them an audience and don't show up. Or DO show up and debate with them.

Censorship is uncalled for, in any case.

If you think people are obligated to do business with everyone you do not believe in free speech.

[LAGC]

If you think people are obligated to do business with everyone you do not believe in free speech.

But we're not talking about private businesses here, we're talking about public venues.

Why shouldn't PUBLIC universities be obligated to allow anyone to speak, assuming they can gather enough student sponsors?

And that was a PUBLIC radio station that banned Dawkins. And only then because some thin-skinned whiners called in to complain.

It's not like some private church is being criticized for refusing to host him, we're talking public venues here...

[raxar]

But we're not talking about private businesses here, we're talking about public venues.

Why shouldn't PUBLIC universities be obligated to allow anyone to speak, assuming they can gather enough student sponsors?

And that was a PUBLIC radio station that banned Dawkins. And only then because some thin-skinned whiners called in to complain.

It's not like some private church is being criticized for refusing to host him, we're talking public venues here...


Let me blow your mind right now

People do not cease being people when they start a PRIVATE business.

As for him being no-platformed I could not care less. You have been told countless times that you are a useful idiot to the socialist goons. Western atheism has served its purpose, now you have to either adopt the hijab or be a racist bigot. Not sure why you thought you got to be one of the "cool kids" forever.

[LAGC]

Let me blow your mind right now

Mind blown. :redface:

I will still never submit to Sharia Law. Or any religious law for that matter.

No way. No how.

If that makes me a bigot, so be it.

[alismith]

Mind blown. :redface:

I will still never submit to Sharia Law. Or any religious law for that matter.

No way. No how.

If that makes me a bigot, so be it.

You're a bigot ONLY to leftists and Dimocrats. Anyone with any common sense would agree with that statement.

(Hummm, I guess I just stated that all islamists, and islamist sympathizers, have no common sense. Can't get much more bigoted than that, right? ;))

[Krupski]

Mind blown. :redface:

I will still never submit to Sharia Law. Or any religious law for that matter.

No way. No how.

If that makes me a bigot, so be it.

Me as well. I do believe in God, however I have no need or use for man made religion.

I don't need to go to a church and recite man made prayers or execute the "sit-stand-kneel-repeat" sequences practiced by some religions.

In fact, I think any religion is a grievous insult to God. How can ANYONE claim to know what God wants in the form of worship or anything else?

If God Himself comes to me and says "do this" or "do that", then I will. Otherwise I (as well as everyone else) have no clue as to what God wants and indeed it's arrogant for anyone to think they know what God wants.

I can ASSUME that God prefers good over evil, and therefore try to live my life in a good manner and not hurt anyone.

I can also assume (or hope?) that this is what God wants and I can hope that God will "give me credit" for trying to do the right thing.

But I cannot and will not ever claim that I KNOW what God wants... because no one can.

The only thing even worse and more arrogant is for someone to claim that they have been "chosen" by God (chosen for what?). Supreme arrogance.

[Krupski]

You're a bigot ONLY to leftists and Dimocrats. Anyone with any common sense would agree with that statement.

(Hummm, I guess I just stated that all islamists, and islamist sympathizers, have no common sense. Can't get much more bigoted than that, right? ;))


A "bigot" is "a person who is obstinately or intolerantly devoted to his or her own opinions and prejudices; especially : one who regards or treats the members of a group (such as a racial or ethnic group) with hatred and intolerance" (source: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bigot ).

However, if a certain group (say, muslims) are insane child rapists and murderers and therefore a person hates them and is intolerant of their actions, are they a "bigot"?

I think the definition of a "bigot" should include the quantifier that the "hate and intolerance" is directed towards a group that is not deserving of such feelings.

[T2K]

raxar, it bothers me just as much when it's folks like Ann Coulter and Milo getting their free speech shut down.

I've been a card-carrying member of the ACLU for over 20 years, and they feel the same way.

No speech is so dangerous that it can't at least be allowed to be heard. If one disagrees with what someone has to say, then just deny them an audience and don't show up. Or DO show up and debate with them.

Censorship is uncalled for, in any case.

Well said. Agreed. Commies and Nazis and dumbasses and everyone else can say whatever they want, this is the USA, we don't censor free speech. Let the battle of logic and ideas happen.

[T2K]

Jews and niggers are all leftists and you are fucking clueless. Its clueless fucks such as yourself that the left love and they require you to continue our destruction.

Name 10 conservative blacks. What do you gain by white knighting for these grifters?

Name 10 conservative Jews. What do you gain by white knighting for these Satan worshipers?

You are a coward, you're terrified of being called a racist tho you don't know why.

Classy.

The left doesn't love me, since I can and do apply logic and reason to their bullshit without fail, whenever and wherever I encounter it. And I do it using clear and polite language, as well. I love being called a racist, since that's just more easy ammo to tear them up with.

It's encouraging that the left's bullshit is just not sticking anymore, as evidenced by recent elections. I hope we can keep things going in this direction.

You and I are almost certainly on the same side in the bigger picture, I'm just higher on the pyramid. Just calling it like I see it.

[mrkalashnikov]

Jefe,

might be time to lay off the AM bourbon, amigo. We're all friends here.

[raxar]

Mind blown. :redface:

I will still never submit to Sharia Law. Or any religious law for that matter.

No way. No how.

If that makes me a bigot, so be it.

Of course you will, it isn't like they're going to give you a choice.

[l921428x]

LAGC you are not a bigot you are an infidel slated for death.

[Krupski]

LAGC you are not a bigot you are an infidel slated for death.


http://www.gunsnet.net/photopost/data/500/waspm.jpg


:yeah:

[raxar]

LAGC you are not a bigot you are an infidel slated for death.

Infidel to the muzzies, bigot to the SJW's


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m1cMUC0IeB8