Richard Dawkins cancelled as 1996 humanist of the year after tweets about transgenders 25 YEARS later
By newseditors // 2021-04-20
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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. (Article by Steve Watson republished from Summit.news) 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. https://twitter.com/americnhumanist/status/1384238178643582979?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1384238178643582979%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fsummit.news%2F2021%2F04%2F20%2Frichard-dawkins-cancelled-as-1996-humanist-of-the-year-after-tweets-about-transgenders-25-years-later%2F 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’: https://twitter.com/RichardDawkins/status/658622852405534721?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E658622852405534721%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fsummit.news%2F2021%2F04%2F20%2Frichard-dawkins-cancelled-as-1996-humanist-of-the-year-after-tweets-about-transgenders-25-years-later%2F https://twitter.com/RichardDawkins/status/1325231273464324096?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1325231273464324096%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fsummit.news%2F2021%2F04%2F20%2Frichard-dawkins-cancelled-as-1996-humanist-of-the-year-after-tweets-about-transgenders-25-years-later%2F 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: https://twitter.com/RichardDawkins/status/1380812852055973888?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1380812852055973888%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fsummit.news%2F2021%2F04%2F20%2Frichard-dawkins-cancelled-as-1996-humanist-of-the-year-after-tweets-about-transgenders-25-years-later%2F 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: https://twitter.com/gregmepstein/status/1381038958654717967?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1381038958654717967%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fsummit.news%2F2021%2F04%2F20%2Frichard-dawkins-cancelled-as-1996-humanist-of-the-year-after-tweets-about-transgenders-25-years-later%2F https://twitter.com/KatyMontgomerie/status/1381185390678188036?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1381185390678188036%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fsummit.news%2F2021%2F04%2F20%2Frichard-dawkins-cancelled-as-1996-humanist-of-the-year-after-tweets-about-transgenders-25-years-later%2F https://twitter.com/elibosnick/status/1381235908146511880?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1381235908146511880%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fsummit.news%2F2021%2F04%2F20%2Frichard-dawkins-cancelled-as-1996-humanist-of-the-year-after-tweets-about-transgenders-25-years-later%2F https://twitter.com/Matt_Dillahunty/status/1381018961081434112?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1381018961081434112%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fsummit.news%2F2021%2F04%2F20%2Frichard-dawkins-cancelled-as-1996-humanist-of-the-year-after-tweets-about-transgenders-25-years-later%2F https://twitter.com/AuthorConfusion/status/1381089325199265792?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1381089325199265792%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fsummit.news%2F2021%2F04%2F20%2Frichard-dawkins-cancelled-as-1996-humanist-of-the-year-after-tweets-about-transgenders-25-years-later%2F Dawkins issued a follow up tweet, claiming that it was not his intent to “ally in any way with Republican bigots” in America: https://twitter.com/RichardDawkins/status/1381665011127451652?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1381665011127451652%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fsummit.news%2F2021%2F04%2F20%2Frichard-dawkins-cancelled-as-1996-humanist-of-the-year-after-tweets-about-transgenders-25-years-later%2F 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. https://twitter.com/RichardDawkins/status/1228943686953664512?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1228943686953664512%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fsummit.news%2F2021%2F04%2F20%2Frichard-dawkins-cancelled-as-1996-humanist-of-the-year-after-tweets-about-transgenders-25-years-later%2F Or the time that he tweeted about Winchester Cathedral’s bells being “nicer” than the “aggressive” Muslim call to prayer: https://twitter.com/RichardDawkins/status/1018933359978909696?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1018933359978909696%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fsummit.news%2F2021%2F04%2F20%2Frichard-dawkins-cancelled-as-1996-humanist-of-the-year-after-tweets-about-transgenders-25-years-later%2F Some supported Dawkins’ cancellation, while others labelled it another successful attack on science by the woke mob: https://twitter.com/OneBadOpinion/status/1384348367992483844?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1384348367992483844%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fsummit.news%2F2021%2F04%2F20%2Frichard-dawkins-cancelled-as-1996-humanist-of-the-year-after-tweets-about-transgenders-25-years-later%2F https://twitter.com/mar_vickers/status/1384346388092366848?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1384346388092366848%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fsummit.news%2F2021%2F04%2F20%2Frichard-dawkins-cancelled-as-1996-humanist-of-the-year-after-tweets-about-transgenders-25-years-later%2F https://twitter.com/M_Stone969/status/1384344896920772608?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1384344896920772608%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fsummit.news%2F2021%2F04%2F20%2Frichard-dawkins-cancelled-as-1996-humanist-of-the-year-after-tweets-about-transgenders-25-years-later%2F https://twitter.com/ot_ford/status/1384345201519603712?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1384345201519603712%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fsummit.news%2F2021%2F04%2F20%2Frichard-dawkins-cancelled-as-1996-humanist-of-the-year-after-tweets-about-transgenders-25-years-later%2F https://twitter.com/util_forager/status/1384342647653814273?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1384342647653814273%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fsummit.news%2F2021%2F04%2F20%2Frichard-dawkins-cancelled-as-1996-humanist-of-the-year-after-tweets-about-transgenders-25-years-later%2F Read more at: Summit.news and Wokies.news.
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