Last week I posted an e-mail correspondence between myself and South African BigThink skeptic blogger Tauriq Moosa. He was kind enough to follow up his e-mail, and I am posting my response here. You will notice that I am quoting from his e-mail without printing it in its entirety. I am hoping to avoid a …
Monthly Archive: September 2012
Sep 14 2012
My application to BigThink
Some of you may remember the story of Satoshi Kanazawa, a “scientist” and “researcher” who made fame by raising some “tough questions” about the relationship between race, IQ, and health outcomes. He also pondered the evolutionary reasons why black women are just so damn unattractive (hint: it’s because they have so much testosterone – I’m …
Sep 13 2012
Divisive: a conversation with Tauriq Moosa
Yesterday, CFI’s Ron Lindsay posted a lengthy discussion of divisiveness within the atheist/freethinker/skeptic community(-ies). If you haven’t read it yet, you should, otherwise much of the following will likely not make sense. Go read it and come back. Okay? Done? Did you read the comments too? Oh, you probably should. Even though Franc Hoggle is …
Sep 13 2012
What’s your room number?
In the comments section of my first post on atheism+, a commenter has opened up a line of discussion about whether or not it is fair and appropriate to respond to honest and non-malicious questions with abuse and vitriol: I think part of the issue with a lot of the discussions that happen both here …
Sep 12 2012
The price of speaking up
One of the cool things about North American culture’s increased multiculturalism (as a statistical fact, if not a political one) is that we begin to see an increasing permeability in roles that were once divided strictly along racial lines. The United States has a black president, which is a nifty thing in and of itself, …
Sep 10 2012
What’s in a name?
This is the second (and hopefully last) post I will feel compelled to write about Atheism+, a group to which I have been assumed (by many) to belong to, but one about which I have thus far said essentially nothing. For those of you who don’t know, Jen McCreight recently stirred things up by announcing …
Sep 10 2012
Because I am an atheist: Ashley Miller
Today’s contribution comes from fellow FTBorg Ashley Miller, who writes at her eponymous blog. Because I am an atheist… I’ve had a hard time writing this because for a long time I couldn’t think of anything that I could really attribute to my being an atheist. I’m an atheist because I am a seeker of …
Sep 10 2012
Finding the faults
Years ago I was in a relationship with someone who for the sake of convenience I will simply call ‘Rhonda’. Rhonda and I began dating shortly after I started undergraduate, and lasted about a year before, for reasons that are not really relevant to the story, we split up. It was an amicable split, and …
Sep 07 2012
The Value of an Education
I began my university career a decade ago. I had grown tired of working for terrible wages in a hot and smelly kitchen, and I felt that the kind of challenge I was looking for in life would be found on some campus somewhere. Initially I had no idea what I wanted from a post-secondary …
Sep 06 2012
You will be assimilated
One of the recurring memes that crop up in many discussions of ‘what is to be done’ with Canadian First Nations is the idea that multiculturalism in its current state is unsustainable, and assimilation is the only answer. My response to that is inevitably “you might be right. When do you plan to start assimilating?” …
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