The sociobiologist Richard Dawkins has been cancelled from his 1996 Humanist of the Year Award by the American Humanist Association for politically incorrect tweets, which in reality were very mild, compared to mine, so it looks like I won’t be getting any humanist awards again this year. It is enough to make a man cry into his flat beer. Yes, spilling it all in one’s Covid nappy.
“Biologist author Richard Dawkins has been stripped of an honour awarded to him by The American Humanist Association in 1996, following tweets that he says merely called for a discussion on transgender issues.
The AHA issued a statement that claims “Regrettably, Richard Dawkins has over the past several years accumulated a history of making statements that use the guise of scientific discourse to demean marginalized groups, an approach antithetical to humanist values.”
“Consequently, the AHA Board has concluded that Richard Dawkins is no longer deserving of being honored by the AHA, and has voted to withdraw, effective immediately, the 1996 Humanist of the Year award,” the organisation added.
Leaving aside the fact that the honour was awarded TWENTY FIVE years ago, the AHA has not actually provided any specific instances where Dawkins made statements that could be viewed as intentionally demeaning to trans people.
He has previously tweeted regarding transgenderism from a biological science standpoint, which he argues is necessarily in direct opposition to the modern phenomenon of ‘wokeism’:
Most recently, Dawkins compared people identifying as a different gender to their biological gender to Rachel Dolezal, a white woman who identifies as black, and complained that if you ‘deny’ their identity you will be vilified:
The way Dawkins whacked ‘discuss’ on the end of the tweet in an effort to suggest it is not his opinion, but rather just a topic of debate, riled those who disagree:
Dawkins issued a follow up tweet, claiming that it was not his intent to “ally in any way with Republican bigots” in America:
It appears that these latest tweets were the straw that broke the camel’s back for the American Humanist Association, prompting it to sever all ties with Dawkins.
Remarkable really, given that Dawkins has sent out far more controversial tweets in the past, such as that time he suggested eugenics, the practice of selective breeding supported by the Nazis, would work perfectly well if applied to humans, because it works on animals."
Dawkins, as a critic of Christianity is no friend of ours, and is still basically a liberal, even though sociobiology would predict illiberalism, and this at first glance is a family dispute within humanism, but the bigger picture shows there this woke tyranny is going as it starts to devour itself. Woke is broke.