UC Berkeley Event (5/6) - Richard Dawkins
http://RichardDawkins.net - see more videos like this. On Saturday, March 8th, 2008, Richard Dawkins gave this lecture on The God Delusion during his US Tour. The event took place on the...
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Audience: (applause) Another example. In 1915, the British member of Parliament, Horatio Bottomley, recommended that after the War, "If by chance you should discover one day in a restaurant you are being served by a German waiter, you will throw the soup in his foul face. If you find yourself sitting at the side of a German clerk, you will spill the inkpot over his foul head." Now that's strident and intolerant. Audience: (laughter) And I should've thought, ridiculous and ineffective as rhetoric even in its own time. The British literary critic Terry Eagleton described the late Kingsley Amis, an extremely distinguished novelist, as "a racist, anti- Semitic boor, a drink- sodden, self-hating reviler of women gays and liberals.&quo...
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Audience: (applause) Another example. In 1915, the British member of Parliament, Horatio Bottomley, recommended that after the War, "If by chance you should discover one day in a restaurant you are being served by a German waiter, you will throw the soup in his foul face. If you find yourself sitting at the side of a German clerk, you will spill the inkpot over his foul head." Now that's strident and intolerant. Audience: (laughter) And I should've thought, ridiculous and ineffective as rhetoric even in its own time. The British literary critic Terry Eagleton described the late Kingsley Amis, an extremely distinguished novelist, as "a racist, anti- Semitic boor, a drink- sodden, self-hating reviler of women gays and liberals.&quo...
