No, 'real' atheists do like this guy. Because just like 'real' religious people, people's labels don't tell you their character (although their beliefs can influence it). There are assholes in all cultures and sects, religious and non-religious.

And there are even assholes who reject the harmful and self-centered superstitions and dogma of religions, then adopt godless superstitions and dogma. We call them 'Randians'.

Having agreed with some of what he said in the past isn't embarrassing. But those people who deny his awful, narcissitic douchebaggery now to defend someone who agrees with them, are making the same type of mistake as people who deny the abuses of the Catholic church. Or Randians. Because seriously, fuck Ayn Rand.

Well, that's all true, of course, but this guy uses atheism to market himself to teenage boys who think they're being rebellious. If you're going to publicly market yourself by a philosophy, you ought to have some kind of real philosophy or you're a big fat poser. I don't think this guy has any special relationship with rational thought. If he's the Amazing Athiest, he really should.

^ 5 for "I don't think this guy has any special relationship with rational thought." I am so stealing that.

If it makes you feel better none other than Richard Dawkins also pulled some of this shit. That "Dear Muslima" letter wasn't as offensive, but it was just as stupid.

http://youtu.be/iS5ORnq2u44

"Why has Amanda Todd become everybody's favorite tragedy? I don't know."


He doesn't know!

Amanda Todd became well known because, shortly before she died, she made a compelling youtube video in which she told her whole story. It would have taken this stinking turd with a goatee attached three minutes to learn about this if he could manage to develop the necessary intellectual curiosity.

For some people, not knowing the first thing about the case would have been an impediment to droning on and on and on about the "astonishing moral hypocrisy" of giving a shit.

Type "elevatorgate" into Youtube for context, that's what started the current massive "raise your hand if you're a shithead" mega-smokeout, including the Dawkins letter. Guess which side of the Should Men Be Less Creepy to Women debate TAA is on.

Which is far less embarrassing than this clip.

I hate TAA with every fiber of my being, but I gotta hand it to the guy he did handle the whole "Banana Scandal" pretty well.

He shoved a bannana up his ass? This is the most endearing thing I've ever heard about TAA. Why?

A troll convinced him to stick it up his ass with chocolate sauce as lube.

ED had a delightful section about the banana incident. It's completely NSFW, but it's still available on his article over at ED.se; includes screencaps and a video link which may or may not still work.

Proof God exists.

The banana incident seems weirdly similar to the story of Amanda Todd, the teenage girl whose suicide was getting too much attention to suit him. She was convinced by a troll to flash her its at a webcam, and the pictures were used to harass and blackmail her.

According to him it was "a girl he knew" that he did the banana video for, but I'm more than confident it was the same kind of "girl" (read: troll) as the ones that talked Chris-Chan into doing similar shit on camera again and again.

He responded to it in the best way I can possibly think of though. A calm collected "I don't give a shit, it's not like I have a reputation or any image of dignity to uphold anyway."

I honestly don't know enough about him to like or hate him. But it appears he's got a lot of people, fellow atheists and otherwise, who want to see him burned at the stake, so he must be some kind of douche in those hundreds of videos he's made that I've never watched.

I didn't watch this one either.

John Holmes Motherfucker, the person who blackmailed Amanda Todd wasn't so much a troll, but a pedophile who happens to be a part of a larger group of pedophiles that have done this to dozen of other underage victims.

http://www.vice.com/en_ca/read/a-jailbait-loving-perv-destroye d-amanda-todds- life

http://www.vice.com/read/tracing-kody-maxson-the-online-blackm ailer-alleged-to-have-tormented-amanda- todd

There's also the fact Todd was twelve when she was trolled, and this guy's around thirty years old.

Why did I go look? Why?

Soo... we're not supposed to have our own opinions about his opinions? We're fucking qualified.

It's not like he's Pamperchu. Most of us actually aren't qualified to determine if he's doing diaper fetish videos right. That dude could be the sexiest gay diaper fetishist alive, and we wouldn't fucking know. It's creepy, because his work cannot be truly appreciated without a diaper fetish.

TAA is talking about shit in the real world. We're all a part of that, and we're all fucking qualified to critique his opinion on the world.

>>How is this any different from Rush Limbaugh?

Also not a fan.

The thing is, if you take him seriously, you're taking him too seriously. It's hard not to get mad because he's JUST SO LOATHESOME YOU CAN'T BELIEVE IT! You go over it in your head, out of sheer amazement. You have to step back.

In the comments, the bullies and misogynists are flocking to him, but they're going to have to flock to someone.

MilkShark has a point. The internet is never going to be free of stupid people. Avoiding TAA's idiocy is a valid way to avoid aggravation.

Looking for the banana stroy, I found that TAA has its own forum, and it's filled with yet more teenage boys who want to be cold-hearted badasses, but they're really empty-headed assholes.

>>Really? We should get rid of anything that is possibly related to natural selection? We have to fuck with nature this much? Let's be obsessed with the fact that pussies that weren't able to adapt to the real world kill themselves? Let's not give a fuck about genes and adaptation skills. Those are not fluffy enough. Liking a facebook page and acting morally superior is much better. FFS, it's 2012, kids have access to the internet. You can't shelter them. It's impossible. Even if you do and your kid first experiences the real internet when he is 18, he'll get fucked up. Imagine experiencing all the insults, all the gore, all the porn, everything all at once. Adapt or die (in this case).

Stupid children. Bullies telling themselves that bullying is noble.

I believe in more civilized, humane internet communities Social scientists maintain that over the centuries, society becomes kinder and more just, more attentive to the rights of minorities. The sensitive people are the creative people. Protecting them allows society to advance, to be richer, to have a larger bank of skiils to solve its problems. This is evolution.

I'd like to work for more humane communities, but there's got to be a smarter way to do it than to get into flame wars with the dumbest of the dumb.

A lot of this is going to be handled by technology. Moderating the internet isn't done, because effective moderation would be labor intensive, i.e., expensive, but sites with business models will learn that excluding people who aren't coldhearted badasses is also expensive. Technology will make self-policing of sites more efficient.

Or maybe not. Either way, why waste precious hours thinking about banana boy?

p.s. I love to eat waffles and masturbate. -- AA

Just say something positive about Rebecca Watson or skepchick.org, and put his name in the subject tags. That oughta do it.