What Offends Me Most About Transphobic Jokes Is How Lazy They Are junkee.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from junkee.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Richard Dawkins. (Don Arnold/Getty Images)
Richard Dawkins drew criticism Saturday (10 April) for a provocative tweet that compared trans people to Rachel Dolezal.
On Saturday morning, an entire minute after tweeting about the late Prince Phillip’s top hat, the evolutionary biologist and outspoken atheist abruptly gave his take on trans lives that absolutely nobody asked for.
Dawkins compared trans folk to Rachel Dolezal, the white woman who appropriated a Black identity while pursuing Black activism and academia.
“In 2015, Rachel Dolezal, a white chapter president of NAACP, was vilified for identifying as Black,” Dawkins wrote.
“Some men choose to identify as women, and some women choose to identify as men.
Elaine Chung
If you take nothing else from what you re about to read, know this: Ta-Nehisi Coates (National Book Award winner, MacArthur Genius Grant recipient, etc) has been writing a very-much-worth-checking-out
Captain America comic book series for two and a half years now. Coates will wrap up his post-
Black Panther run this summer. If you want to read something, you know, with some insight before the dumbassery ahead, check out Volume One of Cap x Coates here. It follows the recovery of an America that HYDRA actually manages to conquer at one point, thanks to a fake Cap declaring allegiance to the organization.
Jordan Peterson s Connection to Red Skull In Ta-Nehisi Coates s Captain America Explained esquire.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from esquire.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Do I really live in a universe where Ta-Nehisi Coates has written a Captain America comic featuring a parody of my ideas as part of the philosophy of the arch villain Red Skull? https://t.co/waFsAvWlfd
“Do I really live in a universe where Ta-Nehisi Coates has written a Captain America comic featuring a parody of my ideas as part of the philosophy of the arch villain Red Skull?” opined Peterson, who is clearly shocked that spouting hateful Nazi rhetoric on YouTube for years has resulted in him being parodied as a (wait for it) hateful Nazi on YouTube.