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ZeroCool@slrpnk.net to The Onion@midwest.socialEnglish · 1 year ago

Neil deGrasse Tyson Gets Into God Debate With Terminally Ill Child in Make-A-Wish Gone Awry

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ZeroCool@slrpnk.net to The Onion@midwest.socialEnglish · 1 year ago
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Nine-year-old Oliver Cahill, who has battled rare brain cancer for over half his life, recently met Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson thanks to the Make-a-Wish Foundation.
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    I don’t get why it’s so popular to hate on him.

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      Its not a matter of popularity but a matter of how he conducts himself.

      Here are about 20 examples: https://www.vice.com/en/article/5dmkgz/neil-degrasse-tysons-tweets-are-so-bad-and-he-needs-to-go-away

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        not reading it because I don’t give a fuck about Twitter. show me something real he’s done wrong

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          The discussion is around him being an insufferable overly pedantic know it all, who often enough,just gets it wrong.

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            I’ve loved worse

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              You can do much worse than NDT. His heart is very much in the right place.

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        The writer of that article seems over the top angry about NDT’s tweets. Enough so that he titles the article “Neil Degrasse Tyson Shut The Fuck Up”.

        Maybe its justified though, let’s look at some examples:

        -NDT tweeted that “Marriage Story” should’ve been called “Divorce Story”.

        -NDT tweeted chunks of asteroid in the movie Armageddon conveniently hit all the major cities of earth.

        -NDT tweeted that the aliens in the movie Arrival would’ve had to write backwards to communicate.

        …Seriously this doesn’t explain the hate for him. It just makes the writer seem like he has a chip on his shoulder.

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          I mean those all seem like pretty decent examples of some one being a pedantic, pompous, “trying to constantly appear smart”, tool-bag.

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            None of which unusual on Twitter from celebrities.

            Why does he get chewed out for it specifically?

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              You seem defensive.

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