Famed atheist and of-late-anti-PC crusader Richard Dawkins is again in hot water after retweeting images of a parody book called “The Social Justice Delusion” (a spoof of his best-seller, “The God Delusion”), which was meant to criticize the supposed double-standards of political correctness. Though ostensibly par-for-the-course for Dawkins’ Twitter ethos, the jacket (go figure) featured a QR code linking users to infamous White Nationalist slogan “Fourteen Words,” which goes, “We must secure the existence of our people and a future for white children.”
In carelessly pushing white supremacist propaganda, Dawkins joined the ranks of fellow Neo-Nazi retweeter Donald Trump. Realizing his error, Dawkins soon deleted the tweet, but not before some hawk-eyed users could take him to task:
@robaeprice Yes. That's of course why I deleted it.
— Richard Dawkins (@RichardDawkins) February 1, 2016
Right-wing anti-religious fundamentalist Richard Dawkins is now tweeting neo-Nazi propagandahttps://t.co/oEAgb5ppy2 pic.twitter.com/fwfmCiopgd
— Ben Norton (@BenjaminNorton) February 1, 2016
Hardly gaffe-prone, Dawkins was last week disinvited from this year’s Northeast Conference on Science and Skepticism after unapologetically retweeting a parody video titled “Feminists Love Islamists” that is reportedly based on a real woman who received hundreds of rape and death threats after criticizing Men’s Rights Activists at an event in Toronto.
De-platformed for tweeting an irreverent joke song?
Read: https://t.co/EThaiwrWoz
— Richard Dawkins (@RichardDawkins) January 28, 2016
And one day prior to his de-platforming, Dawkins wrote of Queen Rania Al-Abdullah of Jordan: “This is how a good Muslim speaks. And how she dresses. And wears her beautiful hair.”
https://twitter.com/steveplrose/status/691689226535067648/photo/1?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
Despite time and again having to delete tweets following brushes with controversy, Dawkins maintains in his Twitter bio, “RTs don’t imply endorsement, nor exhaustive research of tweeter’s CV.”
