Richard Dawkins Had Lawrence Krauss on His Show
We are not ever going to hear a dialectic
I’ve been writing about Richard Dawkins’s podcast The Poetry of Reality, examining the development of its transphobic purpose.
He Dismisses Trans-Inclusivity as a ‘Religion’
The next part I want to discuss is the 8-minute episode released October 10, 2023: “Does Woke Count As A Religion?” This is a slick video remake of his August 3 Substack text post, “Replying to Jordan Peterson.”
Dawkins acknowledges “two challenges” that Jordan Peterson addressed to him online with a critical stance. He coos to Peterson: “I greatly respect Dr. Peterson’s courageous stance against a bossy, intolerant thought police whose Orwellian Newspeak threatens enlightened rationalism.”
The first of Peterson’s challenges to Dawkins: “Does woke count as a religion?” Dawkins says it does, despite not containing supernatural beliefs, because it has:
- “Heresy hunting” (i.e., witch-hunting those it accuses of transphobia). He says the “cult” only makes sense to the “sheep-like” insiders. Repeating his infamous 2021 Twitter quip: “Why is a white woman in America vilified and damned if she identifies as Black but lauded if she identifies as a man?” Acknowledgment of trans…
