Author Topic: American Atheists President David Silverman fired after love assault allegations (Read 1143 times)

Tactical Nuke · April 13, 2018, 10:20:48 PM

https://www.buzzfeed.com/peteraldhous/david-silverman-atheist-fired-loveual-misconduct?utm_term=.niYjyjxpPR#.annkDkyJvA
http://www.patheos.com/blogs/accordingtomatthew/2018/04/david-silverman-officially-fired-from-american-atheists-after-allegations-of-loveual-assault-and-financial-conflicts/

he's the guest on this video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wb3AFMe2OQY

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David Silverman, a firebrand atheist with a knack for generating publicity for his cause, has been abruptly fired as president of American Atheists, one of the leading secular organizations in the US.

The group�s board held an emergency meeting Thursday evening and unanimously voted to fire 51-year-old Silverman, based on explosive written allegations of loveual assault and undisclosed conflicts of interest, BuzzFeed News has learned.

�Last night, the American Atheists Board of Directors voted to terminate David Silverman as President of American Atheists,� the group said in a statement released Friday. The board made its decision after reviewing �allegations raised regarding Mr. Silverman�s conduct,� the statement said. The board also said it intends to cooperate with any future investigations.

Like many other communities in the #MeToo era, the atheist movement is undergoing a reckoning over the treatment of women in its ranks. In February, BuzzFeed News exposed allegations of loveual harassment against another prominent atheist, the physicist Lawrence Krauss. In the wake of that story, two women told BuzzFeed News that they were assaulted by Silverman. They each filed written complaints to American Atheists this week.

In one of those complaints, a woman described a hotel room party held at the end of the 2015 American Atheists Convention in Memphis. She used her name in the confidential complaint, but because of concerns about hostility experienced by other women who have made allegations of loveual misconduct against prominent atheists, she asked BuzzFeed News to use her first initial, R.

She and Silverman had known each other for years, and he flirted with her throughout the evening, she wrote in the complaint. After the other guests left, R. wrote that Silverman asked her to join him in smoking marijuana on the roof. But before they left the room, he suddenly forced himself on her.

�He physically pressed me to the wall and began to kiss me forcefully, grabbed my breasts, and put his hand into my leggings where there was actual entry of my vagina,� she wrote.

R. believed Silverman knew she was interested in BDSM and wrote that he began using insulting language, calling her a �dirty little whore.� He then pushed her to her knees, �where his snake briefly made contact with my mouth,� she wrote.

R. got her feet and said �no,� she wrote. Silverman then lightly slapped her face and said, "You don't get to say no to me."

At that point, R. said the widely used BDSM safe word, �red,� which stopped him, and then she left. The next day, R. took photographs of bruises where she said Silverman had grasped her, and these pictures were included in her complaint to American Atheists.

Two prominent atheists confirmed to BuzzFeed News that R. told them about the incident in the days after it happened.

*fedora tip*

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Anthony Fuckstick · April 13, 2018, 10:29:37 PM

maybe next we can fire atheists from existence

Tactical Nuke · April 13, 2018, 10:30:50 PM

Electrk.. · April 13, 2018, 10:34:41 PM

Foxscotch · April 13, 2018, 10:37:43 PM

well I mean if god aint lookin over your shoulder what else ya gonna do

Daswiruch · April 13, 2018, 10:37:50 PM

bro you just epic owned the athiests

cromartini · April 14, 2018, 02:34:42 AM

elitist atheist scum should be thrown off a building

cblock360 · April 14, 2018, 03:09:50 AM

Quote from: cromartini on April 14, 2018, 02:34:42 AM

elitist atheist scum should be thrown off a building

Only if you can get past their katanas first.

Rally · April 14, 2018, 09:20:11 AM

atheist brothers be like mmmmmmmm but what good is morality if you're doing it for a religion *commits rape*

King T�ny · April 14, 2018, 09:51:23 AM

So another man fired over "allegations"

what happened to innocent until proven guilty?

loving danny masterson was fired from his netflix show because 5 women out of nowhere claim he raped them

OfficerKenny · April 14, 2018, 11:05:07 AM

He could go to confession, oh wait

thegoodperry · April 14, 2018, 01:12:43 PM

Quote from: King T�ny on April 14, 2018, 09:51:23 AM

So another man fired over "allegations"

what happened to innocent until proven guilty?

loving danny masterson was fired from his netflix show because 5 women out of nowhere claim he raped them

Tactical Nuke · April 14, 2018, 06:26:38 PM

Quote from: King T�ny on April 14, 2018, 09:51:23 AM

So another man fired over "allegations"

what happened to innocent until proven guilty?

loving danny masterson was fired from his netflix show because 5 women out of nowhere claim he raped them

there are apparently photos of bruises from the incident and two other witnesses (people who were told of it almost immediately after it happened)

Blockomaniac · April 14, 2018, 07:42:07 PM

King T�ny · April 14, 2018, 08:19:58 PM

Quote from: Tactical Nuke on April 14, 2018, 06:26:38 PM

there are apparently photos of bruises from the incident and two other witnesses (people who were told of it almost immediately after it happened)

Okay so like, anyone can punch themselves repeatedly and claim they were beaten up.

Also here's the loving weird part.

A netflix executive was at some park or whatever with his kids. Some random woman came out of nowhere and questioned him about Danny Masterson. Then she tells him danny raped her too.

That's the fishiest thing I ever heard.