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> Neil deGrasse Tyson or Richard Dawkins Twitter actually ruined my opinion on these individuals. Neil deGrasse Tyson writing smug bitchy tweets about slight

> Neil deGrasse Tyson or Richard Dawkins Twitter actually ruined my opinion on these individuals. Neil deGrasse Tyson writing smug bitchy tweets about slight inaccuracies in Hollywood sci-fi movies. Painted him in an entirely different light to me Richard Dawkins tweet after tweet of him just arguing with stupid trolls, you're supposed to be a respected academic yet here you are wrestling pigs in the mud because for some reason you feel you have to win every argument.

the_other 10y ago
That's how Dawkins treats his career as a fundamentalist atheist.
namaemuta 10y ago
> Richard Dawkins tweet after tweet of him just arguing with stupid trolls, you're supposed to be a respected academic yet here you are wrestling pigs in the mud because for some reason you feel you have to win every argument. The world is full of "stupid trolls". If you ignore them bizarre things would happen like people starting to believe AGAIN that the world is flat.
- szatkus 10y ago
  I think that there are enough of internet warriors that someone like Dawkins doesn't have to involve in those arguments. Also making someone change his mind on the internet most of the times is close to impossible, so it's usually pointless.
  - namaemuta 10y ago
    It's not only that. People making searches can end up finding those tweets. If the only thing that they see is the wrong statement of trolls, they can think that those statements are true. On internet, repetition is assumed as real so if only the wrong things are repeated, then people will accept them as truth.
jwebb99 10y ago
> Neil deGrasse Tyson writing smug bitchy tweets about slight inaccuracies in Hollywood sci-fi movies. Are you new to the Internet? Because Tyson is hardly an outlier. I'm not familiar with Tyson's Twitter feed, but I've noticed that lots of playful critiques are interpreted as joyless and pedantic. The YouTube channel CinemaSins comes to mind--various filmmakers (using Twitter) have attacked CinemaSins of vicious nitpicking, even though that's the whole point of the series. Tyson even did some recordings for various episodes and he seemed fairly understanding and good-natured about the flaws he exposed. Again, I'm not familar with the tweets in question, but I just felt like pointing out that sometimes people interpret ALL criticism as a malicious act even when it's dispassionate or tongue-in-cheek.

the_other 10y ago

That's how Dawkins treats his career as a fundamentalist atheist.

namaemuta 10y ago

> Richard Dawkins tweet after tweet of him just arguing with stupid trolls, you're supposed to be a respected academic yet here you are wrestling pigs in the mud because for some reason you feel you have to win every argument. The world is full of "stupid trolls". If you ignore them bizarre things would happen like people starting to believe AGAIN that the world is flat.

szatkus 10y ago
I think that there are enough of internet warriors that someone like Dawkins doesn't have to involve in those arguments. Also making someone change his mind on the internet most of the times is close to impossible, so it's usually pointless.
- namaemuta 10y ago
  It's not only that. People making searches can end up finding those tweets. If the only thing that they see is the wrong statement of trolls, they can think that those statements are true. On internet, repetition is assumed as real so if only the wrong things are repeated, then people will accept them as truth.

jwebb99 10y ago

> Neil deGrasse Tyson writing smug bitchy tweets about slight inaccuracies in Hollywood sci-fi movies. Are you new to the Internet? Because Tyson is hardly an outlier. I'm not familiar with Tyson's Twitter feed, but I've noticed that lots of playful critiques are interpreted as joyless and pedantic. The YouTube channel CinemaSins comes to mind--various filmmakers (using Twitter) have attacked CinemaSins of vicious nitpicking, even though that's the whole point of the series. Tyson even did some recordings for various episodes and he seemed fairly understanding and good-natured about the flaws he exposed. Again, I'm not familar with the tweets in question, but I just felt like pointing out that sometimes people interpret ALL criticism as a malicious act even when it's dispassionate or tongue-in-cheek.