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→Atheist PZ Myers on YouTube atheism
I stopped bothering because I didn’t want to be associated with these goons, and it didn’t matter what I said…any video would be swarmed with abuse. Every once in a while I tell myself I shouldn’t surrender the medium so easily and that I should at least make a little effort now and then, but meh…I’d have to come up with a vainglorious name, figure out how to animate a goofy avatar, and learn how to overlook a lot of gross logical fallacies.<ref>[http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2016/07/27/youtube-where-atheism-goes-to-rot/ YouTube, where atheism goes to rot]</ref>}}
I stopped bothering because I didn’t want to be associated with these goons, and it didn’t matter what I said…any video would be swarmed with abuse. Every once in a while I tell myself I shouldn’t surrender the medium so easily and that I should at least make a little effort now and then, but meh…I’d have to come up with a vainglorious name, figure out how to animate a goofy avatar, and learn how to overlook a lot of gross logical fallacies.<ref>[http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2016/07/27/youtube-where-atheism-goes-to-rot/ YouTube, where atheism goes to rot]</ref>}}
== Mythcon 2017 and anti-progressivism YouTube atheists ==
At ''Splice Today'', Dylan Green wrote about the Mythcon 2017 Conference and the [[atheist movement]]: "If there’s a point in time where atheism’s [[Cold War|cold war]] of [[Progressivism|progressive]] versus reactionary flavors came into being, it would be the day when Mythcon was held."<ref>[https://www.splicetoday.com/pop-culture/the-post-mythcon-crossroads-of-atheism The Post-Mythcon Crossroads of Atheism] by Dylan Greene</ref> At Mythcon 2017, [[Carl Benjamin]] and other anti-progressive [[YouTube atheism|YouTube atheists]] spoke which upset many progressive atheists.<ref>[https://www.splicetoday.com/pop-culture/the-post-mythcon-crossroads-of-atheism The Post-Mythcon Crossroads of Atheism] by Dylan Greene</ref><ref>[https://areomagazine.com/2017/10/03/chaos-during-social-justice-and-feminism-debate-at-milwaukee-atheism-conference/ Chaos during Social Justice and Feminism Debate at Milwaukee Atheism Conference]</ref>
=== Example of a secular leftist video and an atheist rebuttal video ===
=== Example of a secular leftist video and an atheist rebuttal video ===