RationalWiki - Whiny hugbox for spergs and a clusterfuck of neverending drama on a rapidly declining website.

The Grognard said:
It's out of habit, that was hammered to them back in 2009 when the most ferocious argument online was the fundie-fedora war.
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Which the fedoras won pretty much, until they snatched defeat from the jaws of victory by adopting pseudo-scientific religious nonsense beliefs like a man can transubstantiate magically into a woman by changing his Twitter pronouns.
 
AnOminous said:
Which the fedoras won pretty much, until they snatched defeat from the jaws of victory by adopting pseudo-scientific religious nonsense beliefs like a man can transubstantiate magically into a woman by changing his Twitter pronouns.
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They won it completely. The fight you're describing came very soon after it between those who insisted on being socratic gadflys and those who wanted to chase trends/social acceptability. Because nobody likes a gadfly, the trend-chasing sociopaths won that conflict and here we are now.
 
Rudolf's Friend said:
I still wonder why there’s still people who use Rationalwiki as a source when the site is pretty much dead now
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There's a handful of "old growth" articles about medical quackery that are still alright but those all predate the woke takeover of the site.

AnOminous said:
Which the fedoras won pretty much, until they snatched defeat from the jaws of victory by adopting pseudo-scientific religious nonsense beliefs like a man can transubstantiate magically into a woman by changing his Twitter pronouns.
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And now we're seeing the fundies start to slowly make a comeback except now they're calling themselves "traditionalists" all thanks to the pseudo-scientific dogmatic bullshit of wokester atheists.

Talk about a Pyrrhic Victory.
 
Rudolf's Friend said:
I still wonder why there’s still people who use Rationalwiki as a source when the site is pretty much dead now
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Seems with just about every controversial topic I search for in a search engine, a "RationalWiki" link is sure to show in the top results if there's a RW article on it.

(and not just on Google)

The Grognard said:
the fundie-fedora war
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I think I'd rather have that than a seemingly endless "culture war" with Clown World identity politics.
 
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ToroidalBoat said:
Seems with just about every controversial topic I search for in a search engine, a "RationalWiki" link is sure to show in the top results if there's a RW article on it.

(and not just on Google)
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Which is surprising because Wikipedia at this point is no different from RationalWiki other than RationalWiki is open about their beliefs.
 
ToroidalBoat said:
How did "atheism+" lead to "cancel culture", and how is "atheism+" different from just atheism?
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For the first part of your question, it was one of the very first situations where the modern life ruination strategy that would then become known as "Cancel Culture" was refined to a point where anyone could have it be done to them with a dedicated enough group who sought to destroy someone with Fairgame-derived tactics. As for Atheism+, it effectively tried to hijack the larger Atheism/Freethinker movement of the day to become shocktroops for all the usual social justice shit. The rest of the movement was not that pleased about being forced to not question anything about it. In the end, neither group won but the tactics and tools developed during this became commonplace during the 2010's across the greater western world.
 
ToroidalBoat said:
What's ironic is that atheism is supposed to be the lack of belief.

This "Atheism+" thing is a belief system which evolved into a cult.
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More or less. Since the movement had a lot of cult survivors who instantly recognized what this shit was gonna be, they ensured that those who they trusted knew how to fight against this nonsense.
 
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