Does anybody have a good term to describe people you used to respect who turned out to be horrible? Like Steven Pinker, J.K. Rowling, Richard Dawkins. It's like a milkshake duck but more consequential and even more disappointing
@laurahelmuth Nothing that general but when I went to grad school I had the choice between studying with Pinker at MIT or going somewhere else, and I chose somewhere else (despite how wrong that decision probably seemed to the average observer), so in my mind he's the literal personification of "dodged a bullet"
@laurahelmuth what's the Richard Dawkins beef? Just read his wiki entry and don't see anything unsavory besides inventing the meme. I can't wait to be disappointed in another Humpty Dumpty Hero.
@mybarkingdogs@laurahelmuth thanks. Put those that into duck duck go and got a totally different wiki page, "Views of Richard Dawkins". What a turd. Never meet your heroes. 😭
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