The legacy of the New Atheists is basically negligible, unless you count damaging the reputations of the people involved in it who had reputations to damage, and stoking the fire of Islamophobia that was already doing pretty nicely to begin with
@mrkocnnll Sam Harris's hand in Douglas Murray's rise is the most damaging element, I feel he's manifested real harm in the world
@mrkocnnll It quickly mutated from hating all religions to hating THAT religion, or maybe it just dropped the mask
@mrkocnnll I’ve heard theories that they were a factor in the acceleration of transphobia in the UK. Hard to know though, considering all the other madness.
@mrkocnnll In fairness, it's also had a negative influence on stand-up comedy.
@mrkocnnll I was an extremely minor part of that whole thing and I agree with you 100%. Am mortified at the trajectory of some of those people.