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The post is about a scientist, Richard Dawkins, tweeting that the world's Muslims earned less Nobel prizes than Trinity College Cambridge. While the fact itself
by nexthash 6y ago
The post is about a scientist, Richard Dawkins, tweeting that the world's Muslims earned less Nobel prizes than Trinity College Cambridge. While the fact itself may be true, what is the point of broadcasting it to your Twitter followers? It isn't relevant to any academic discourse, and the way Dawkins cherrypicked and amplified it puts Muslims in a bad light ("they don't contribute to society"). That in itself is discriminatory.
- david38 6y agoYou read a lot into that. Neil Tyson said something similar a while back. Twitter isn’t generally the place for academic discourse. Saying something you don’t like doesn’t have to be followed up with research every single time. Contributing to society and winning Nobel prizes aren’t even close. That would imply only a few dozen people in all history have contributed to society.
- gher-shyu3i 6y agoDawkins' and Tyson's remarks show their bigotry, and frankly, ignorance. Not only are they zealous and condescending, but it's honestly embarrassing for them when they step out of their field to talk about religion, especially Islam. Their arguments are laughable and shows that they lack the most basic knowledge to back their incorrect claims, and they expose their severe ignorance. On a side note, I want to see Tyson's response when asked how many Black people have won the Nobel prize.[1] [1] Courtesy of https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfRnYNig9jU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfRnYNig9jU
- gher-shyu3i 6y agoDawkins is a journalist, and a bigoted one at that: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ya_9-06MIQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ya_9-06MIQ