[Coach85]

N_Fiddledog N_Fiddledog:

No. (and let's keep it childish so you can feel at home) You shut up.

Feel at home? The only people I can see here acting like children are the senior members of this forum. Yourself included.

I don't understand what a 'prog' is. I assume it's anyone who doesn't agree with your every view point, which is typical of the maturity level here at CKA.

The reason for my question was simple. I own a home in Florida and always stay on top of local news and events in that State. I thought maybe you were in a situation like me or perhaps had family there.

To be honest, we spend so much time as Canadians infatuated with the politics in the US that our own Province and Country often turns to shit. We vote in morons like Trudeau because he's a poster boy and had a famous daddy yet there's far more conversation here about the Trump than pretty much anything else.

[DrCaleb]

Coach85 Coach85:

I don't understand what a 'prog' is. I assume it's anyone who doesn't agree with your every view point, which is typical of the maturity level here at CKA.

Give the man a cigar!

[N_Fiddledog]

Not that it matters, but let's add to the hilarity by asking you why you even think this is an American issue?

Richard Dawkins is British. No platforming is an international problem. You find it anywhere you find full out authoritarians such as Commies or Mohammedans. You also get it from the wannabe's such as the groups identifying themselves as "Progressive."

You can even (some might say 'especially') find the no-platforming problem in Canada. Just ask Jordan Peterson, Richard Spencer, Pamela Geller or Anne Coulter.

[BartSimpson]

Coach85 Coach85:

I don't understand what a 'prog' is. I assume it's anyone who doesn't agree with your every view point, which is typical of the maturity level here at CKA.

And we all appreciate your dedication to preventing any changes to the maturity level on this site.

Hell...allow me to say, Welcome to CKA!!

[N_Fiddledog]

Coach85 Coach85:

I don't understand what a 'prog' is.

Well allow me to help you out then. 'Prog' is a term you hear more in the rightosphere.

The one you'll hear more on your side of the circle is "Regressive left." They're pretty much the same thing.

Carl Benjamin or if you prefer, Sargon of Akkad explains the difference between Liberals (such as himself and Progressives as - ~ Liberals seek equality of opportunity. Progressives seek equality of outcome

If fact...speaking of Carl Benjamin, here he is on the actual subject of this thread (which again is not America.)

[Thanos]

Here's hoping that all those rallying around Dawkins for being banned by a left-wing radio station also get as upset when he, Sam Harris, or Christopher Hitchens have their works banned and removed from school libraries at the demand of permanently outraged Christian fundamentalists.

[DrCaleb]

Thanos Thanos:

Here's hoping that all those rallying around Dawkins for being banned by a left-wing radio station also get as upset when he, Sam Harris, or Christopher Hitchens have their works banned and removed from school libraries at the demand of permanently outraged Christian fundamentalists.

Dawkins is an equal opportunity offender. I'm sure yet another ban from yet another irrelevant group is just another notch in the belt.

[N_Fiddledog]

Thanos Thanos:

Here's hoping that all those rallying around Dawkins for being banned by a left-wing radio station also get as upset when he, Sam Harris, or Christopher Hitchens have their works banned and removed from school libraries at the demand of permanently outraged Christian fundamentalists.

When did that happen? Doesn't sound good. Gotta link?

[Coach85]

N_Fiddledog N_Fiddledog:

Not that it matters, but let's add to the hilarity by asking you why you even think this is an American issue?

The title was a good indicator:

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banned from California radio station

The 'American left' barred him from speaking, in California.

[BartSimpson]

In fairness KPFA is representative of the psychotic fringe of the left.

PD is about the most ardent leftist we have here since Andy departed us and I'd not insult either of them by assosciating them with KPFA.

Andy at his most oblique and incoherent was still more sound than anything I've ever heard on KPFA.

And while I'm no fan of Dawkins I suspect he's better off not gracing these nutbars with his notable intellect.

[N_Fiddledog]

I was interested in the claim of Thanos suggesting Christian fundamentalist censorship Dawkins is supposed to have experienced. Can't find it so far, but haven't looked that hard.

A quick wiki scan won't show it to me but there was this on the critique he has experienced:

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While some critics, such as writer Christopher Hitchens, psychologist Steven Pinker and Nobel laureates Sir Harold Kroto, James D. Watson and Steven Weinberg have defended Dawkins's stance towards religion and praised his work,[123] others, including Nobel Prize-winning theoretical physicist Peter Higgs, astrophysicist Martin Rees, philosopher of science Michael Ruse, literary critic Terry Eagleton, and theologian Alister McGrath,[124][125][126] have criticised Dawkins on various grounds, including the assertion that his work simply serves as an atheist counterpart to religious fundamentalism rather than a productive critique of it, and that he has fundamentally misapprehended the foundations of the theological positions he claims to refute. Rees and Higgs, in particular, have both rejected Dawkins's confrontational stance towards religion as narrow and "embarrassing", with Higgs going as far as to equate Dawkins with the religious fundamentalists he criticises.[127][128][129][130] Atheist philosopher John Gray has denounced Dawkins as an "anti-religious missionary" whose assertions are "in no sense novel or original," suggesting that, "transfixed in wonderment at the workings of his own mind, Dawkins misses much that is of importance in human beings." Gray has also criticised Dawkins's perceived allegiance to Darwin, stating that if "science, for Darwin, was a method of inquiry that enabled him to edge tentatively and humbly toward the truth, for Dawkins, science is an unquestioned view of the world."

I found this interesting also:

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In 1986, Dawkins and biologist John Maynard Smith participated in an Oxford Union debate against A. E. Wilder-Smith (a Young Earth creationist) and Edgar Andrews (president of the Biblical Creation Society).[b] In general, however, Dawkins has followed the advice of his late colleague Stephen Jay Gould and refused to participate in formal debates with creationists because "what they seek is the oxygen of respectability", and doing so would "give them this oxygen by the mere act of engaging with them at all". He suggests that creationists "don't mind being beaten in an argument. What matters is that we give them recognition by bothering to argue with them in public."[

and:

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Dawkins has opposed the inclusion of intelligent design in science education, describing it as "not a scientific argument at all, but a religious one".[141] He has been referred to in the media as "Darwin's Rottweiler",[142][143] a reference to English biologist T. H. Huxley, who was known as "Darwin's Bulldog" for his advocacy of Charles Darwin's evolutionary ideas. (The contrasting sobriquet of "God's Rottweiler" was given to Pope Benedict XVI while he was a cardinal working for the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.)[144] He has been a strong critic of the British organisation Truth in Science, which promotes the teaching of creationism in state schools, and whose work Dawkins has described as an "educational scandal". He plans to subsidise schools through the Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason and Science with the delivery of books, DVDs, and pamphlets that counteract their work.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Dawkins

But I can't find Thanos's fundamentalist boogeymen shutting him out of anywhere. If they have ever done it I'd be against it though.

[Thanos]

From the same school as Dawkins, Hitchens, and Harris, Douglas Murray shows that there's no one like an atheist when it comes to dismantling fairy tales.

[Tricks]

Thanos Thanos:

Here's hoping that all those rallying around Dawkins for being banned by a left-wing radio station also get as upset when he, Sam Harris, or Christopher Hitchens have their works banned and removed from school libraries at the demand of permanently outraged Christian fundamentalists.

Of course not, it's only when the other side does it.

[N_Fiddledog]

Tricks Tricks:

Thanos Thanos:

Here's hoping that all those rallying around Dawkins for being banned by a left-wing radio station also get as upset when he, Sam Harris, or Christopher Hitchens have their works banned and removed from school libraries at the demand of permanently outraged Christian fundamentalists.

Of course not, it's only when the other side does it.

Again, let's at least see what you're talking about before we decide who is or isn't outraged about it.

Let's at least know if it exists.

[BartSimpson]

It might not.

Thanos has a history of making things up and then getting angry about them.