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The bottom-left one for Feminists doesn’t fit. The others are things that were created by their own group, for example, the KKK was created by Christians. That Feminist meme, on the other hand, wasn’t created by feminists but by someone else to mock them.
And the "keep calm and hate god" was clearly created by a theist, not an atheist
Good point. Why would an atheist hate something which doesn't exist. The whole meme is bad.
Many atheists "hate god" as in hate the idea of a god. I can see atheist making that as a meme and I know some edgy atheists post that kind of shit all the time, which tbh is corny as hell.
The number of assholes calling themselves feminists vastly outnumber the actual feminists. They have lost control of the word.
TBF I think it'd be risky to use legit examples for that panel
TERFs maybe?
My thought exactly. Most of the "feminists" who do fit that stereotype ended up becoming Feminist Appropriating Reactionary Transphobes.
The best example of an asshole atheist they could find was one making a shitty anti-theist meme, meanwhile the examples of asshole Christians and Muslims are violent
CCP and USSR stamped out religious practice, but go off.
As an Atheist myself, don't delude yourself into thinking religion is unique in its capacity for horrors. Humans have that capacity, any group we make would also have that capacity.
I was commenting on the examples the meme chose to use. It implies they couldn't find examples of violent atheists
And by implication pointed out the difficulty in finding one. Unless you literally made a statement about just the types of images they chose with no further intellectual depth, which I mean is possible (I do that shit all the time), it comes with the assumed next statement about there not being violent atheists, or at least there are less violent atheists. So I was talking to that point.
That being said, I'm autistic so I might just missing the point, but I figured that my statement should still be made in case others thought like I did initially. There have been atrocities committed by atheists and there are violent atheists.
well you can find them on social media hating on women instead. a lot of early atheist youtubers went on to become gamergaters.
or look at a popular one like Dawkins who is busy being a transphobe nowadays. imagine being an atheist and wasting the remainder of your precious and only life trying to make the precious and only life of the most marginalized people in society even worse.
or sam harris who literally defended torture.
Still. Putting Dawkins up against the KKK is a reach.
each of them doing what they're capable of. the kkk used to have a lot of power. dawkins is just a misogynistic, transphobic nerd. it's all circumstance. full time hating can lead to a lot of places. for bitches like him it's mostly trying to get others to do the dirty work.
There are a lot of edgy athiests using all their time attacking trans people these days, because an unfortunate number of them are mainly athiests as a way to hate Muslims. And the ones taking the time to attack trans people have almost all joined the alt right, which has been responsible for a lot of attacks on innocent people.
They may not be killing in the name of atheism, but they have been in the same of "reason" and "defence of women".
Maybe I'm sheltered but I don't know of a single atheist attacking trans people. I'm not saying there aren't any because anyone can be an asshole but I'm not sure if it's a lot.
I haven't seen that. Why would they need to be atheist to hate Muslims? You can do that from anywhere.
No atheist hates god. How can you hate something you don't think exists?
I guess you can hate god as a concept. God can be proven to exists in human minds (no esoteric stuff, just psychology and sociology). You can hate this scientific fact and what it means for humankind.
Tbf, you can think god isn't "real" while also hating the concept of "god" for being responsible for so much war and division throughout history (among other reasons.)
People hate on fictional characters all the time though.
actually dangerous white supremacist
guy in a ninja costume with a knife
weird meme
completely made up stereotype
1/4: do better next time!
Misandrists exist, but most are harmless. Social media just does a good job of amplifying them like all outrage.
American war propaganda poster for illustrating feminism, that's certainly a choice
Yeah and “we can do it,” until the men come back home and take the jobs back.
Reminds me a of a joke "Why do people in North Dakota spend so much time at the bar?
Because Colonel Custer told them to hang out there until he got back."
ITT people missing the point and projecting their own beliefs and values.
This is how people "strawman". It's easy to hate on atheists if you just see them all as their asshole members. The truth is that any group has their violent nutjobs and vocal minorities. You can't just say all Muslims are terrorists just the same as you can't say feminists are hateful crazies.
As much as I resent religion, I do believe it's fundamentally a human problem. People everywhere have a tendency to corrupt beliefs in order to justify being assholes to one another.
100%
That being said, dogmatic belief systems, which tend to be common in religion, seem to act as force multipliers in this regard.
Yeah especially if such dogmatic beliefs make people think dumb or unethical stuff is somehow okay.
I dont get it, which minority am I supposed to blame for all my problems now?
Terrible implementation of a decent idea, try again
There are in fact assholes of every stripe and it is good to be aware of those within your own "camps"
And 'assholes' just appear at random? Nothing in these groups increases or decreases the asshole frequency? Imagine if we thought of all culture that way. Forget about progressive politics changing people's minds and thereby their behavior. "Some people are just 'assholes', what are you gonna do?"
Prefer the Norman Rockwell version of Rosie the Riviter:
https://www.nrm.org/rosie-the-riveter/
The Norman Rockwell Museum are cowards. The photo crops out the bottom, where she's using Mein Kampf as a footstool.
The Christian one should be a missionary actually helping people. Christian faith that only exists in church is a false faith
I'm not sure I'd use Bill Nye as the example of the asshole atheist, unless that's the joke. Maybe Christopher Hitchens.
No, it's saying Nye is a good person. He's an atheist and not an asshole.
But you do touch on something because it would be a challenge to find someone known for being atheist while also being a decent human being. IDK, maybe Daniel Dennitt?
Bill Nye kind of is a dick though.
Some people are really warm in acute person-to-person interactions, but lack the chronic empathy to spread long-term kindness. See "southern hospitality" clashing with who those areas vote for.
Others have a well-oriented moral compass but are just really abrasive in person. That's Bill Nye. I've met him and he's not like, super mean but he's got a bit of a holier-than-thou (or rather, smarter-than-you) complex.