Richard Dawkins is an evil, slave-owning bastard

[hadespussercats]

Ummm... I mean...these people have to be joking...

How about the fact that George Bush is a descendant of Charles II of England -- Charles the II being the King who set up Carolina as a colony in North America and established it as a slave owning State?

Al Gore is related to Charlemagne and Edward I "Longshanks" who executed "Braveheart." http://thecounterpunch.hubpages.com/hub ... l-Families

"According to Burke's Peerage, even according to the official genealogy, Bill Clinton is genetically related to the House of Windsor, the present royal family in Britain; to every Scottish monarch; to King Henry III of England; and to Robert I of France." http://ericdubay.hubpages.com/hub/bloodlines

Sins of the fathers, in-fucking-deed.

Hey, both my husband and I are descended from Edward I "Longshanks", too! Which means we're related to Al Gore.

And which means our son is his own cousin.

[Atheist-Lite]

You can see it in his eye. I suspect he has whips, a dungeon and a gimp suit with someone in it. As for Dawkins who knows?

[HomerJay]

I thought Dawkins had closed the forum?

That's the article comments section, not the forum.

I meant he didn't own slaves any more.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

So, taking it wayyyyyy back, Dawkins is related to both the slave holders and the slaves. Mitochondrial Eve should have to pony up some reparations!

[klr]

It's also likely that some of his ancestors went a-crusadin' back in the day

[Gawdzilla Sama]

It's also likely that some of his ancestors went a-crusadin' back in the day

And killed the Neanderthals off. Now THERE is the mother of all wrongful death lawsuits.

[Coito ergo sum]

It's also likely that some of his ancestors went a-crusadin' back in the day

Was that good or bad? Some say they were conquering Muslim lands --- others say they were working to oust conquering Muslims from formerly Christian lands....

...well, no matter, as like as not there were distant cousins fighting with the Sultans and the ululators...

[MiM]

So my ancestry can be linked to about every Royal family in Europe. I guess that makes me particularly eeevil :twisted:. Or am I saved by the fact that one recent link is on the maternal side?

[Gallstones]

I think it's possible that some of my forebears voted for.....Hitler.

[Rum]

One assumes, given his agenda, that the journalist is a Christian.

In which case of course we know where the real guilt resides!

Eve should compensate us all - the bitch!

[redunderthebed]

is owned by the Barclay Brothers who are notorious tax dodgers and James Bond villians.

Although to be fair most rich pricks perform some form of tax evasion or another.Then again most dont be wankers about it and flash it around like the barclays.

... which reminds me: You probably won't have to go back very far into any family tree to find people who tick at least one of those boxes.

Well in Australia unless you are full blood aboriginal going back to the dreamtime you are descendants of immigrants.

My rap sheet
I descend from lowland scots who immigrated to SA in 1800's - An ethnic minority AND immigrants!
They lived in a destitute asylum - welfare!
One of my descendants was that pissed at 9am in the morning that he crashed his horse and cart and died. Apparently he was out buying livestock the farmer must of chucked in a carton of piss or equivelant to sweeten the deal.
I'm distantly related to the former head of the Western Australian communist party.

So there is my chance of getting a job at the torygraph fucked.

My ancestor is Robin Hood.
"robbing from the rich and giving to the poor" = he was a raving communist, of the sort beloved by your average Telegraph reader

Rubbish robin hood was a yorkshireman natures tightarses of the non-lozzer kind no way in fuck he gave to the poor unless he himself was skint.

I think it's possible that some of my forebears voted for.....Hitler.

Does it count that your grandfather has views similar to hitler?

I'm not kidding whatever you do don't ask him about Aboriginals.

[Horwood Beer-Master]

The fact that Dawkins considers his 400 acres of Oxfordshire to be worth "peanuts" says far more about him than the fact that it may have originally been paid for off the profits of slavery.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

The fact that Dawkins considers his 400 acres of Oxfordshire to be worth "peanuts" says far more about him than the fact that it may have originally been paid for off the profits of slavery.

It's actually true. He let Josh handle the property for him.

[DaveD]

That might be why it's not, really, 400 acres.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Here four hundred acres is a small farm.