The New Atheists being people like Richard Dawkins and Sam Harris.
Dawkins isn't totally bad; he's IMO just trolling to get a reaction half the time, and has been an equal opportunity offender. But Sam Harris straight-up supports torture, deportation and racial profiling to weed out Muslims. Moreover, Dawkins has actually written entertaining and informative books that are not strictly related to atheism, showing far more creativity, substance and erudition than his colleague.
New Atheist foot-soldiers, like the denizens of 4chan, or the overwhelming majority of shrill, embittered YouTube atheists, are some of the most unpleasantly closed-minded and unceremoniously vulgar individuals I have ever encountered. There should be a "douchebaggery" intersection in Venn diagrams that feature significant overlap between between Libertarianism and any other belief system.
Dawkins isn't totally bad; he's IMO just trolling to get a reaction half the time, and has been an equal opportunity offender. But Sam Harris straight-up supports torture, deportation and racial profiling to weed out Muslims. Moreover, Dawkins has actually written entertaining and informative books that are not strictly related to atheism, showing far more creativity, substance and erudition than his colleague.
New Atheist foot-soldiers, like the denizens of 4chan, or the overwhelming majority of shrill, embittered YouTube atheists, are some of the most unpleasantly closed-minded and unceremoniously vulgar individuals I have ever encountered. There should be a "douchebaggery" intersection in Venn diagrams that feature significant overlap between between Libertarianism and any other belief system.