April 23, 2021 7:00am by David Farrar

Dawkins cancelled

"Thou shalt not question gender ideology!" Says the atheist org.

"The AHA Board has concluded that Richard Dawkins is no longer deserving of being honored by the AHA, and has voted to withdraw, effective immediately, the 1996 Humanist of the Year award." https://t.co/vhrrYcXt0N
— Colin Wright (@SwipeWright) April 20, 2021

Dawkins is probably the most famous humanist in the world. His book The God Delusion was a best seller. He was awarded Humanist of the Year 24 years ago.

But he got cancelled because of a solitary tweet he made in April 2021:

In 2015, Rachel Dolezal, a white chapter president of NAACP, was vilified for identifying as Black. Some men choose to identify as women, and some women choose to identify as men. You will be vilified if you deny that they literally are what they identify as.

Discuss.
— Richard Dawkins (@RichardDawkins) April 10, 2021

That is all it takes to get cancelled nowadays.

And soon the Government will pass a law so people can try and get you jailed for such a tweet.

UPDATE: Two other recipients have done an excellent letter spelling out why the cancellation goes against everything that AHA claims it is for.

Letter to the @AmericanHumanist Association from myself (AHA Humanist of the Year 2006) and Rebecca Goldstein (AHA Humanist of the Year 2011) @platobooktour protesting its withdrawal of Humanist of the Year award to @richarddawkins #richarddawkins pic.twitter.com/IVNjbmswHT
— Steven Pinker (@sapinker) April 21, 2021

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