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I spoke with Vincent Freeman or Babylon Project/Thinking Out Loud about SJW takeover of atheist communities and today's culture wars:

I'm now returning to the fray as Public Relations Manager with the new group Atheists For Liberty - the only explicitly anti-SJW atheist 501 (c) 3 organization I know of. We're also providing a home for libertarians, conservatives, centrists, and those against wokeness. At the moment, sheltered in p...

The Washington Post's Radley Balko vs. the Manhattan Institute's Rafael Mangual on whether "there is overwhelming evidence that the criminal justice system is racist."

https://reason.com/video/is-the-crimina ... um-debate/

fuzzy wrote: ↑ Mr Bluebird's on my shoulder
It's the truth, it's actual
Everything is satisfactual.

It's gone the way of Chicks without dixie!

"Phelps outlined specific steps NASCAR would take moving forward. It includes sensitivity and unconscious bias training for all members of the industry..."

:/

Glenn Loury: 'We're Being Swept Along by Hysteria' About Racism in America

New from Cathy Young: The witch hunts of the left revive Soviet ghosts https://forward.com/opinion/449301/the-witch-hunts-of-the-left-revive-soviet-ghosts/ In fact, after the end of the Stalin era, relatively few dissenters in the Soviet Union went to prison, except for chronic troublemakers and tho...

George Washington statue toppled by protesters in Portland, Oregon

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/protesters ... on-statue/

'racial justice and police reform'

Mrs. Butterworth's now on the chopping block lol https://imgur.com/a/D3itcud From Pinnacle Food's website: Mrs. Butterworth's® syrup launched in 1961 to a national audience in the distinctive motherly-shaped bottle American kids have grown up with for generations. The talking Mrs. Butterworth's® bot...

...and as expected, now Dungeons and Dragons is problematic. Didn't take too long after Magic: The Gathering ... https://imgur.com/a/PZAfJit https://dnd.wizards.com/articles/features/diversity-and-dnd "Dungeons & Dragons teaches that diversity is strength, for only a diverse group of adventurers can...

Covid forces SSA to hold a virtual graduation ceremony. Seduction of young college girls put on hold. https://www.facebook.com/RichardDawkinsFoundation/posts/10158208174205155?__xts__[0]=68.ARBSNswtJECTO4pBm_Mcs0RMKpR5U3KGN9g5-yNaRnT13TPfQP_gLQ4stFoxF8XL-ooLOPKH-ckLoiaAsXXePNtig_i0kevdxV4AaYnpfuboO...

Here's a piece from today's SSA presenter, wow... https://thehumanist.com/features/interviews/exposing-and-challenging-male-supremacism-the-humanist-interview-with-alex-dibranco?fbclid=IwAR1aGwtUqYtnhVrTVeNhRKfgLfMJuB_PJN6eMBBJ-FWs9Mxy1uULK4bXasM Exposing and Challenging Male Supremacism: An Intervi...

Secular Student Alliance is live now with their 'Combating Secular Male Supremacism'

Natalie Reed calls Ophelia Benson a "fucking dumbass" responding to Ophelia saying, "People who ejaculate don't get to tell women what we can call ourselves." https://imgur.com/a/rF7STuB "Preferred pronoun is a brick through the window" "I and many other trans women CANNOT ejaculate as it so happens...

Michael Nugent: The abusive vitriol against J.K. Rowling is unjust and incomprehensible. She is defending the reality of biological sex, the sex-based rights of women, the identity-based rights of transgender people, and the safeguarding of young people. https://www.facebook.com/micknugent/posts/102...

Wizards of the Coast bans some old Magic: The Gathering cards.

Sargon's take:

Andrew Doyle/Titania McGrath has a great piece critical of Black Lives Matter detailing "the tidal wave of woke sentiment, unleashed in the name of anti-racism." "We are right to be nervous about race-based collective guilt, and quasi-religious mass displays of supplication and conformity. [...] We ...

Secular Student Alliance is beyond parody Contesting Secular Male Supremacism to Build a Better World Register for this event here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_qS-xNCCESweuMGHCvg79HA Alex DiBranco began her work on right-wing movements more than a decade ago with a focus on the Chris...

Does anyone here support (financially or otherwise) the AAI, the FFRF or any of the other various atheist or secularist activist organisations? Or did you support them in the past and stop? If so for what reason? Curious minds want to know - and after all I am what some might call a most curious in...

Michael Sherlock of Atheist Alliance International posted saying he wants to work with Democrats and Republicans in atheist groups as long as people are working towards a common cause. Soon after, Shermer rape accuser messages Sherlock and then blocks him when he asks (after she brought up, for some...

https://reason.com/2020/05/19/believe-all-women-me-too-feminists-biden-reade/ For a perfect example, see the journalist Susan Faludi in The New York Times: "'Believe All Women' Is a Right-Wing Trap," reads the headline on her article. Faludi accuses conservatives of inventing the idea that feminists...

New from Cathy Young:

Tara Reade’s Dubious Claims and Shifting Stories Show the Limits of #BelieveWomen

https://quillette.com/2020/05/14/tara-r ... ievewomen/

White man loose on stage! White man loose on stage! I member :) But in her defense, perhaps Watson was too busy tweeting about how “strange” it was to have a “white man” open the conference to pay attention to what I was actually saying. (I’m just glad Watson didn’t notify security: “white man loose...

Hopping in here, hi everyone!

I recently chatted with David Silverman about his #metoo allegations and much more. This turned out much better than our Brave Hero Radio chat in 2013ish :)

#denouncetheshit

She's back!

I reflect on the 2016 Reason Rally following my experience in Washington D.C., respond to criticisms of the event, and comment on the state of the secular movement. Mentioned within are criticisms from Thunderf00t.

http://justinvacula.com/2016/06/05/reas ... rthoughts/

Happy holidays! http://i.imgur.com/KoaUU4Y.jpg http://i.imgur.com/SK0O6Xv.jpg Life's good on my end. Poker's going well, I'm being more social, and continuing to lose weight with regular exercise and healthy eating. I've been attending Lehigh Valley Humanists event here in the Lehigh Valley for Penn...

Technology giant Google, having conquered the Internet and the world around it, is taking on a new challenge: violent extremism. The company, through its eight-month-old think tank, Google Ideas , is paying for 80 former Muslim extremists, neo-Nazis, U.S. gang members and other former radicals to g...

Hm...Jamila Bey now with American Atheists' 'No God Blog' on Patheos - no updates on here FTB blog since CPAC/March of 2015.

http://www.patheos.com/blogs/nogodblog/about/

Speaking of ShoeOnHead...

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Reason #1892634876234 why people don't take feminists seriously: Here's a feminist arguing that embedding public tweets in an article is "violence," an ally "doing harm," and hints at this being "plagiarism." Yah, not all feminists all like this, but sadly many [online voices] are. Beyond GamerGate:...

Petition Demands Defunding of The Argus During the Wesleyan Student Assembly’s (WSA) open forum on Sunday, Sept. 20, members of the Senate discussed a petition calling for a boycott of The Wesleyan Argus and the revocation of its student group funding. The petition will be the focus of a WSA-sponso...

Freedom From Religion Foundation (FFRF) now has blog on Patheos - http://www.patheos.com/blogs/freethoughtnow/ Wait a sec, what was it again that PZ said about the -- what was it -- lazy slackers that join the network looking for cash? Yuck. FFRF provides yet more non-lazy non-slackers for the Pathe...

Paging BaconNutellaFiend: Costco shopper, 78, punched in fight over free Nutella waffle sample, police say http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-costco-shopper-78-punched-in-fight-over-free-nutella-waffle-sample-20150921-story.html A Burbank man was charged Tuesday with punching a 78-year-old ...

New South Park episode makes fun of social justice warriors, 'check your privilege,' PC - quite on point:

Watch:

Hopefully not :nin: 'd

PA Hardcore Frontwoman Fakes Cancer Diagnosis, Scams Thousands Through Crowdfunding http://www.metalinjection.net/shocking-revelations/pa-frontwoman-fakes-cancer-diagnosis-scams-thousands-through-crowdfunding http://www.erietvnews.com/story/30006606/local-woman-allegedly-fakes-cancer-diagnosis-for-d...

So I saw an episode of Zoo the other night and a scientist had isolated some bacteria that was driving animals nuts and in order to test it he dripped some into a beaker of coconut milk because, being the same density as cerebrospinal fluid, that would show him how the bacteria acted on the brain. ...

As someone who's actually spent a brief time working in a HR department, I'll offer this advice: Chatting someone up on a site like LinkedIn probably isn't the best or most professional idea, but if you're going to do it, check that the hottie isn't a feminist before you hit send. Especially not a ...

as progress is made toward a more equal and humane society, it takes a smaller and smaller offense to trigger a high level of outrage. The goalposts shift, allowing participants to maintain a constant level of anger and constant level of perceived victimization. Reason.com - 'The Rise of the Cultur...

"Because breastfeeding is time-consuming, often painful, sex-specific work, it makes an obvious observation even more glaring: Customary domestic responsibilities can be readily performed by either gender. And yet in most households with children, the male partner picking up a task here and there is...

"Because breastfeeding is time-consuming, often painful, sex-specific work, it makes an obvious observation even more glaring: Customary domestic responsibilities can be readily performed by either gender. And yet in most households with children, the male partner picking up a task here and there is...

John Greg - Thanks for sharing information about the hard times you are experiencing. Yah, many of us know you just from posting here & in other locations, but, as you saw, many are willing to help you. There is hope. Please share a paypal email or, if you'd prefer, set up some sort of fundraiser. I...

Parody Accountant wrote:No I'm still dumber than you all.

I still don't get it?

Is it Jacques Cuze = cock juice?

I was reading it as a "(would)'dya excuse (me)?"

I'm so retarded

Jacuzzi?

Elyse situation is very sad. As others have said, I hope she can find effective help and live a better quality of life.

Updates on ReasonRally.org speakers, date announced. More info on board and organizing team. FFRF e-mail I got says event will be 4 days long, but I don't see this information on ReasonRally.org - only Sunday is listed in promos. Seems to be free of SJW influence...? Should totally have a pit meetup...

Updates on ReasonRally.org speakers, date announced. More info on board and organizing team. FFRF e-mail I got says event will be 4 days long, but I don't see this information on ReasonRally.org - only Sunday is listed in promos. Seems to be free of SJW influence...? Should totally have a pit meetup...

Re: Butts, 8chan, images of children I've seen statments from supporters of Butts - that if you say 8chan -- a site including pictures of modeling children or children in bathingsuits -- is legal one has no grounds to say similar pictures Sarah has are illegal. This seems right. The question then, I...

[quote="deLurch"][quote="justinvacula"]"Now, to be clear, there are certain corners of the atheist blogosphere where you get accused of sexism/slut-shaming for sneezing sideways. Not that sexism doesn

[quote="deLurch"][quote="justinvacula"]"Now, to be clear, there are certain corners of the atheist blogosphere where you get accused of sexism/slut-shaming for sneezing sideways. Not that sexism doesn

"Now, to be clear, there are certain corners of the atheist blogosphere where you get accused of sexism/slut-shaming for sneezing sideways. Not that sexism doesn

Lsuoma wrote:Question for the Pit's conscience re doxxing:

If one does a google search for a 'nym and links to individuals turn up in the top two or three hits, should sharing that be considered doxxing? My view, as I have expressed in the past, is no, but I'd like to see what others think.

No.

Video by 'Force Upsetting Rape Culture' uploaded by Virginia Sexual & Domestic Violence Action Alliance

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"Do you want to kiss?"

Newish comment from Ophelia on post titled 'Sniffing and denunciation:'

http://i.imgur.com/pFrjrXJ.jpg

McElroy vs Valenti, FULL DEBATE - How Should Colleges Handle Sexual Assault? "I have been asked why I posted only my side of the very controversial Brown University debate with Jessica Valenti. Brown originally posted both sides and I followed suit but Valenti -- through her representative -- threa...

About Ophelia getting fooled by the Discocunts story... it's Ophelia , it's happened to her many times before. She's impulsive, she wants her couple of lines of harrumphing online PRONTO, which means she's posted "nevermind" and "my bad" followups more times than she'd like to remember. She even on...

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KiwiInOz wrote:Time for a musical interlude. Be'lakor - an Australian melodic death metal band.

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I heard about the band via AngryMetalGuy.com. You'll find some good music there.

http://www.angrymetalguy.com/belakor-of ... ne-review/

For the small number of people interested in the SPI vs SCA brawl (all the top SPI Fellows quit after Edwina sued SCA for sacking her and then claimed they hadn't known they were fellows and had been tricked or something) - the FA has a series of updates to an old post. He publishes Dawkns, Shermer...

For the small number of people interested in the SPI vs SCA brawl (all the top SPI Fellows quit after Edwina sued SCA for sacking her and then claimed they hadn't known they were fellows and had been tricked or something) - the FA has a series of updates to an old post. He publishes Dawkns, Shermer...

I've been using ad-blocker for ages now, but I chanced to look at FfTB via my wife's account recently. Jesus those ads are fucking annoying. No wonder they left with a rump of morons and precious few others. The mobile view is horrid. Popups prompting me to download antivirus applications appear an...

Hamza's tweets are now protected :o

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