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The Atheist community responds to The Amazing Atheist (self.SRSBusiness)

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I don't know if we're getting bored of TAA drama yet, but it's spreading like wildfire outside of SRS ([TW] including a reddit hat trick )

It's especially fun to see his fellow "internet atheist" heavies calling him out. I've been looking for blogs from well known atheists in response. After spending so much time on /r/atheism, it's nice to know not all atheists commentators are total shitbags.

These blog posts contain triggering content since it compiles TAA quotes.

PZ Myers has some very harsh words to say about TAA. He's also my favorite evolutionary biologist atheist blogger and pretty much owns.

The Atheist Experience very pro SRS blog post which gives us a shoutout and quotes many SRS heavies from the MR thread.

There's lot's others but those two are extremely popular. SRS is going viral today :getin:

post good ones you find.

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[–]ArchangelleGabrielle 23 points24 points ago

Nice work; we're actually collecting links of external coverage over at SRSMeta so please comment if you find more (and post as many as you want!) :)

[–]Guessed 20 points21 points ago

PZ Myers! His link collections have been helping me tremendously with cephalapod centric coursework research the past few weeks. And now this!!

I think ... this is love.

[–]androcyde[S] 5 points6 points ago

He also played a central role in ElevatorGate! Actually, looking at his Reddit account, it seems he defended Rebecca Watson in /r/atheism when it was going down and got downvoted.

Yes, /r/atheism downvoted PZ Myers :psyduck:

He also said this

A woman complains about the disgusting behavior of reddit atheists: you wax indignant.

Reddit atheists spout misogyny and rape jokes: crickets chirp.

so he pretty much owns

[–]sunsunsun 7 points8 points ago

Hi, um, I'm a mostly layman and I am extremely interested in cephalopods, I was sort of looking at this book. Do you know anything about it? What books/documentries/blogs/free jazz compositions do you suggest?

[–]lop987 2 points3 points ago

I want to hear this too. Cephalopods are awesome.

[–]Guessed 0 points1 point ago

Oh gosh! Sorry for the late reply. I'm sorry to say I'm as ignorant as you. That said one book I'm renting, Kingdom of the Octopus, is super duper engrossing, even though it's rather dated. It goes all over the place! I recommend finding a used copy at some point.

[–]danharaj 19 points20 points ago

TAA has broken Warp 10 when it comes to shit posting.

[–]tuba_man 15 points16 points ago

PZ is awesome, and I love that he's open about being feminist here.

[–]Lemonegropenis oppressor 13 points14 points ago

Fantastic! Not only does it destroy the reputation of a master shitlord but we get free advertising as well! How will this effect the community? What will happen to the normality of reddit? Find out next time on TAA Exposed!

[–]fishfetish 10 points11 points ago

PZ Myers' post is so great. I really like that guy.

AAHAHA I am really enjoying this.

"These facts do not justify stoat-like fucking or rape."

[–]BonSequitur 9 points10 points ago

Oh, wow. Getting owned by PZ Myers. That's gotta hurt.

[–]Youre_So_PatheticFerengi gynosaur 7 points8 points ago

At this rate, no one will ever take TAA seriously ever again. The MRM can have him, no one else wants him.

[–]Sophonax 15 points16 points ago

DAAAAAAAAAMN

Oh my god, this whole thing is just amazing as hell. TAApocalypse Now!

[–]Triseult 6 points7 points ago

I have to say; the meltdown by TAA in that initial thread was the most bat-fucking-shit INSANE meltdown I've ever seen on the Internet. Regardless of the entire MRA/feminism issues that are in the backdrop of this, I've never seen someone lose it so utterly, and act like such a despicable human being as a result.

[–]ItsSoBeautiful 4 points5 points ago

I wish I could tell you I’m making this up.

Ain't that reddit in a nutshell.

[–][deleted] 5 points6 points ago

hey angelles, has the SRS subscriber count exploded? I don't really know what our numbers were before. xC

[–]imaginary_fiend 4 points5 points ago

PZ has occasionally struck me as kind of a dick in the past but I sure appreciate his take on this situation.

[–][deleted] 10 points11 points ago

Is there a thread were we can talk about the video? Because that was quite hillarious. Also I enjoy that the internet is getting a place where people are getting called out for the bullshit they say. Making the world a better place one step at a time

[–]maxgud 3 points4 points ago

PZ Myers has some very harsh words to say about TAA. He's also my favorite evolutionary biologist atheist blogger and pretty much owns.

Great read!

[–]theloniousnole 4 points5 points ago

Thank god, I can't stand TAA

[–]RadioPassive 9 points10 points ago

I am blissfully and gleefully unaware of what drama TAA has caused, but if we can talk about it in a mature, productive manner, then I'd actually like to know what's up.

Would you mind explaining this "wildfire" to someone who has succeeded in eliminating drama from his life, and is therefore completely ignorant of it?

[–]MaximusLeonis 24 points25 points ago

Essentially, he threatened rape to a prominent member of SRS, and then he continued to threaten sexual assault. He is a popular youtube vlogger, and then he went to youtube about how Feminism is controlling and tries to sexually dis-empower men.

The key issue here is that this a man who has many followers, and many support the type of statements he made. So now we have an atheist trying to co-opt the atheist movement to be an MRA movement as well. Thus, many atheists are upset with this TAA guy trying to associate them with misogynous movements, and SRS is upset because there is a guy who goes on the internet and threatens to rape people.

Yup, just drama.

[–]imaginary_fiend 7 points8 points ago

Wouldn't want to get any any drama on you. It's so icky.

[–]androcyde[S] 14 points15 points ago

The extremely brief version is last night he was mad about being banned from SRS, so made a post in MR about it. The thread quickly backfired on him, and being the mature and logically minded atheist he is, he retaliated by saying some horrible things to rape victims (click on the blogs links and you'll see a compilation of his quotes).

The next morning, the rest of reddit, and the internet at large, caught wind of what he was saying and he doesn't have very many fans right now. He also posted a youtube video about it after staying up all night where he was literally crying.

[–]RadioPassive 11 points12 points ago

where he was literally crying.

Welp.

[–]tuba_man 6 points7 points ago

he was mad about being banned from SRS,

Is there a link to the thread that got him banned? I'm curious to see the genesis of this particular apocolypse.

[–]androcyde[S] 18 points19 points ago*

the timeline goes:

  • one TAA gets banned from SRS for whining about feminists upvoting "ICumWhenIKillMen". As an aside, I wonder of the Banana dildz were intentional, because lol.

  • two he tries to recruit MRA as his personal army because he's upset over being banned. MRA mods deleted the thread (no threads linking to SRS rule) and it was quickly taken over by SRS. Most of the original comments were just making fun of him and he decided to retaliate by trolling back. His idea of trolling, however, was saying "cunt" a bunch of times and trying to trigger rape victims. Also, before I went to sleep last night, his posts were mostly positive so we weren't touching the poop.

  • three Thread posted about it in SRSMeta which was spent laughing at him. Brought the MR thread to the attention of others. He came into the thread to try and attack us on our turf, to much hilarity.

  • four After claiming he wouldn't make a youtube video about it, he does. At 2:08, he wipes a tear from his face. Despite his literal crying, he still insists he's just trolling us and is masterminding the entire debacle.

  • five first SRS Thread

  • six second SRS thread

  • seven he apologizes privately to lorddernie for the horrible things he said to him. Refuses to publicly apologize, because he's too alpha to be bullied or some shit like that.

At some point early today, he was also featured on /r/worstof and /r/subredditdrama. Verseerif was featured in /r/bestof for an awesome smackdown she gave TAA. In a bizarre turn in events, the rest of Reddit is actually on our side with thinking TAA is a shitbag.

The drama is now spreading through Atheism blogs. PZ Myers' is particularly worth checking out, not only because he is awesome, but because TAA has a hilariously pathetic rebuttal.

[–]3DimensionalGirlEverything I know about feminism, I learned from Twilight. 8 points9 points ago

Verseerif was featured in [10] /r/bestof for an awesome smackdown he she (I'm pretty sure) gave TAA

[–]androcyde[S] 2 points3 points ago

oops, fixed

[–]Lorrdernie 7 points8 points ago

Fun little bonus detail, I was one of the first people to tell him to get out when he posted in SRS for the first time. I didn't even realize he was a celebrity!

[–]dysomniak 1 point2 points ago

Me too! By the way, your Reddit Enhancement Suite tag says "Hero".

[–]Lorrdernie 2 points3 points ago

<3

[–]Lorrdernie 1 point2 points ago

I changed yours from my usual SRSister tag to TAA Getoutbuds.

[–]tuba_man 5 points6 points ago*

Thanks for the details! This has been a rather epic failure of a shitstorm. I dig it.

Edit: And PZ's response was beautiful.

[–]melteddali 1 point2 points ago

Most of his replies are deleted but here's the screenshots. Warning a lot are are Triggering link

[–]melteddali 1 point2 points ago

Man I would so love a PZ ama thread

[–]farox 0 points1 point ago

Can someone explain to me what good comes from pointing out where something was also posted?

The you've been linked to...

Just sounds too much like the "LLO HI FORM REDIT!!" YouTube comments.

I just can't get what drives someone to do this.

[–]androcyde[S] 6 points7 points ago

the HITLARIOUS bot?

That's just a sad guy who has had a personal vendetta against SRS for months so makes bots linking the rest of Reddit to our threads. He said his plan is ultimately to destroy us, which this is going to accomplish somehow.

He only recently added the /r/worstof and /r/subreddit drama links so it doesn't look like he's just obsessed with SRS.

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