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The smears continue, with a misunderstanding becoming a moral panic

I strongly oppose prejudice and bigotry and discrimination against anybody based on their personal identity. I strongly support fundamental human rights including freedom from discrimination and equality before the law. I encourage people to be kind, empathetic, ompompassionate, cooperative, reciprocal, just and fair in online discussions. I encourage people to criticise bad ideas robustly, while […]

Hate speech is bad. Offensive satire of bad ideas is good. Richard Dawkins was right.

Richard Dawkins recently, and reasonably, retweeted a funny animated video of a song called ‘Feminists Love Islamists’ by YouTube satirist Sye Ten Atheist, about using ideology to silence criticism. In response, the New York City Skeptics and the New England Skeptical Society effectively proved the underlying point that Richard was highlighting, by publicly withdrawing their […]

My review of 2015 for atheists and secularists

2015 was bookended by the Charlie Hebdo and Bataclan massacres in Paris. Meanwhile, Islamic States violated human rights through blasphemy laws, lack of due process, persecution, floggings and executions, and ISIS tried to bring us back centuries to an even more barbaric implementation of Sharia law. Ireland was at the forefront of both secular progress and resistance to secular progress. […]

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