SIO288: The AHA Dawkins Debacle, Part 2
Serious Inquiries Only
Thomas Smith
4.6 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 28 April 2021
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
This episode is the sequel to the last one, so make sure to check that out. I go into the "whataboutism" around the AHA Dawkins award thing, and talk about a really terrible thing another atheist said that I think people should know about.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to? Serious inquiries only. |
| 0:29.0 | Hello and welcome to Serious Inquiries only. This is episode 288. I'm Thomas Smith and this is a part two. |
| 0:35.0 | If you didn't listen to the episode before this one, go check that out. |
| 0:38.0 | This is a... I've got time now. I'm following up, finishing the discussion on dockens and the American Humanist Association, |
| 0:48.0 | Humanist of the Year award and Stephen Pinker and all this stuff. |
| 0:52.0 | Quick note. Again, we got that Q&A coming on Friday. |
| 0:56.0 | I'm going to record that and put that up. Hopefully same day with Lindsay. |
| 0:59.0 | So if you're a patron, you can ask questions on patreon.com slash series pod. |
| 1:03.0 | Go find that thread. It's going to be a lot of fun. Can't wait. |
| 1:06.0 | And if you're not a patron, don't worry. You still get to hear it. I will put it out for everybody. |
| 1:10.0 | And also, I know it's an action-packed week, but I can't... |
| 1:13.0 | Again, I just... I had a lot of my mind to get out and making up for earlier in the month when I wasn't putting stuff out. |
| 1:19.0 | But expect part two of the racism and criminal justice with Lindsay. |
| 1:24.0 | Expect that tomorrow. I will get that up. I promised that I would and I will. |
| 1:29.0 | I just didn't get it up as early for patrons because of these intervening two episodes here. |
| 1:34.0 | So, okay. What do we talk about? Well, I've already had some good reaction. |
| 1:39.0 | Couple things to push back on. This is a weird... |
| 1:43.0 | So the market's saying everything. |
| 1:46.0 | This is an interesting thing. I'm quite confident that Stephen Pinker was echoing a right-wing talking point about |
| 1:54.0 | Margaret Sanger being like a racial eugenicist and trying to eliminate black people kind of thing |
| 1:58.0 | that Republicans have been harping on for years. It's BS. |
| 2:02.0 | But given that Sanger was associated early on with eugenicists and was trying to like... |
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