WOTM: Ayaan Is Gaslighting Us, Part I
Hey Gang! I hope everyone had a happy Newtonmas. And, of course, I'm wishing you all a great New Year!!! I'm gonna start it off here with a content extravaganza!!!
For those of you who expressed a preference for my shorter videos last month, this is not a middle finger to you. I just felt compelled to respond to Ayaan Hirsi Ali's interview with Alex O'Connor. And there was no way to do that in short form. So, we have 100 plus minutes of content this month divided into eight videos — one will be free to make up for last month's accidental double posting. And the other won't post until after midnight, counting as one of next month's videos.
Part one is a bit of an introduction, followed by some of the interview. The rest will be straight up commentary on the back and forth between Ayaan and Alex — who really didn't push back at all. That's is partially why I felt the need to make this series. What really pushed me over the edge was Ayaan's misrepresentation (or outright lying) about her old friend, Christopher Hitchens. I've set the record straight on that one. I've also wrapped things up with a message from Hitch to Ayaan in part eight.
This was an epic undertaking. I've never produced so much content in one month. And I have to thank one of my patrons here for her help — Cyndi Connell. This was just too much for one person, and she stepped up just when I needed it!
For those of you who prefer the shorter videos, you can trust that they will return next month. I never want to produce this much content in one month again!!!
Thank you all for your continued support! I couldn't do any of this without you! Enjoy!!! B
Comments (9)
I am a supporter and enjoy your posts immensely. I find Aayan so irritating and off-putting, however, that I am unwilling to devote even one post listening to her, much less several. I do not care at all what she thinks. Catch you next time.
I get it. Trust me. It was difficult for me as well. Had she not lied about Hitch and Atheists in general, I might have let it go and never made this series. There are just certain things I can't allow to stand. Thanks for your continued support regardless.
The deepest pits of despair is not a condition prone to making good judgments. How can she not see that she was used? This is exactly why we sometimes characterize Christians as vultures, waiting for the victim to be weak enough before they pounce. (Although pouncing is not how vultures operate. You know what I mean.)
Meekness and humility in American Christianity? I must have missed that Sunday.
Remember, kids: It's Yahweh or the highway!
Oh, my. Makes me sad. Obviously Ayaan has some deep seated emotional baggage, probably conditioned by her strict Muslim upbringing. I really wish that, in those dark moments, she had reached out not to therapists, but to people like Carl Sagan with "Cosmos: A Personal Journey," or Neil DeGrasse Tyson with "Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey," or Carolyn Porco with her talks, essays, and videos. As Sagan himself once stated: "Better the hard truth, I say, than the comforting fantasy. And in the final tolling it often turns out that the facts are more comforting than the fantasy." Sadly, Ayaan is now clinging to the fantasy, simply because it gives her "comfort."
Wait till you get to Part VIII and hear Hitchens take her to task from the grave (or urn?).
Have a great new year!
The longer ones are good! More content and more push back! Have a great new year! Looking forward to the rest of the con... version!