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Neil DeGrasse Tyson Explains His Christmas Tweet

Posted by samzenpus on from the using-his-words dept.

140Mandak262Jamuna writes Neil DeGrasse Tyson tweeted on christmas day what appeared to begin as a tribute to Infant Jesus, but ended up celebrating Isaac Newton. Apparently this was retweeted some 77000 times, far above his average of 3.5K retweets and caused many to be angry. He doubled down on it by tweeting about people being offended by objective truths. Then wrote a fuller explanation.

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  1. Re:Dude, wait... by morcego · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    It never ceases to amaze me how Christians keep trying to coopt stuff. Now people can't even make posts on Dec 25th, because that date belongs to zombi-jesus. How probably never even existed.
    Issac Newton, on the other hand, certainly existed.

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    morcego