Stuff like this happening more and more makes me wanna believe, that new atheism was sabotaged by the right. Some in the RationalWiki facebook group noticed that all those “conservative atheists” had the same few professional photo model guys as their avatar (except they made sure they used different photos), with some constantly making the same grammatical errors. Yet we needed to accomodate these “conservative atheists”, to build a “big tent movement” and to attract other conservatives into the movement, all while compromising a lot of our ideas, and stopping calling out christian bigotry and psedoscience, to keep it “apolitical”. However, knowing how much pick-mes in all circles exist (conservative gamers also started out like that, to shield gaming from conservative censorship, except they eventually incorporated said censorship to a degree), those trolls might have been unnecessary by whatever creationist org’s interns or by Russian trollfarms did them.
Stuff like this happening more and more makes me wanna believe, that new atheism was sabotaged by the right. Some in the RationalWiki facebook group noticed that all those “conservative atheists” had the same few professional photo model guys as their avatar (except they made sure they used different photos), with some constantly making the same grammatical errors. Yet we needed to accomodate these “conservative atheists”, to build a “big tent movement” and to attract other conservatives into the movement, all while compromising a lot of our ideas, and stopping calling out christian bigotry and psedoscience, to keep it “apolitical”. However, knowing how much pick-mes in all circles exist (conservative gamers also started out like that, to shield gaming from conservative censorship, except they eventually incorporated said censorship to a degree), those trolls might have been unnecessary by whatever creationist org’s interns or by Russian trollfarms did them.