Kengi’s holding it up for you. Have a good, long look:
Dear Atheist Political Prisoner
Stop whining, will you. Yes, yes, I know you were expelled from your homeland, and . . . yawn . . . don’t tell me yet again, I know you aren’t allowed to write a blog post without the police arresting you, and you can’t leave the house without being killed by angry theist mobs, and your family is allowed to beat you, and you’ll be stoned to death if you set up a website. But stop whining, will you. Think of the suffering your poor British brothers have to put up with.
Only this week I heard of one, he calls himself a “Horsemen of the Non-Apocalypse”, and do you know what happened to him? Some people openly criticized something he said. I am not exaggerating. They really did. They were critical of his comments. Of course he was able to get his rebuttal published in major news sources, and of course he didn’t lose his job or speaking engagements or anything, but even so . . . He feels “muzzled!”
And you, Political Prisoner, think you have speech freedoms to complain about! For goodness sake grow up, or at least grow a thicker skin.
Stings a little to have your own attitude reflected back on you, dunnit?
I just want you to remember this moment the next time you expect some sympathy from me for one of your Very Important Problems. I shall have to direct your attention to Those In Other Countries Who Have It So Very Much Worse So Shut Up About the Things That Harm You. You should be happy – after all, one leads by example, and that’s the example you’ve set. I, lowly woman who has too much of an Estrogen Vibe™ to be a Thought Leader™, can only follow your shining example.
The only problem with this is that by focusing only on the hypocrisy, it makes it appear as though the original was justified, as though Rebecca’s stand against sexual harassment at conferences was as preposterous as Dawkins description of himself as “muzzled.”
The Atheist Political Prisoner is the most rational person on Earth. Those who disagree with him are being overly emotional and only criticizing his thinky thoughts for blog clicks.
Help, help, I’m being repressed.
The horses asses of the apocalypse outnumber the horsemen.
I always found horses and asses to be wonderful creatures….
I think of them more as the horse droppings of the apocalypse. Or cow droppings, ‘cos they smell a lot worse than horse droppings.