"Richard Dawkins is a grown man, a best-selling author, a prize-winning
scientist and an emeritus fellow at Oxford. On Twitter, he is something
else entirely. His self-presentation there is comically
indistinguishable from that of a precocious, argumentative,
peer-despised pre-teen who has read a few Richard Dawkins books:
obsessed with his own internal logic but oblivious to the context in
which people are rolling their eyes at him, relentlessly condescending
and aggrieved by the opinions of other humans. He’s best known for
having opinions many consider reactionary and Islamophobic, and also for
the time he was upset he was prohibited from taking a pot of honey on an airplane."
Nitsuh Abebe of the New York Times on one of the things we learned from online disputes in 2015.
Saturday, January 02, 2016
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