Atheists & Agnostics
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(9,356 posts)Describing herself as not only atheist - but a "libertarian anarchist."
Heads should be exploding all over DU about now. Will the Lib'rul Xian contingent be flinging the same insults at her as they do some male atheists and Libertarians? Stuff like "greedy misogynistic Liber-turd?"
Ah! Thompson is a small-L libertarian. That will probably make all the difference. Since there are Good Atheists and Bad Atheists, I guess now we'll see some parsing about Good Libertarians and Bad Libertarians.
And she's also British, so possibly unaware of what "Libertarian" means in the USA right now.
The article wasn't too bad, but I could have done without the usual swipes at Dawkins & Co.
And it seems to concentrate mostly on celebrities. No mention of the many other women who are leaders in the atheist community: Ellen Johnson, president of American Atheists for years. Or the mother/daughter Gaylor team, founder and current president of FFRF. Etc. Etc.
Oh, that doesn't fit the "male leaders only" narrative, so we'll just ignore it...