Only provided Dawkins was not in strong support here. There’s an asymmetry, because two things have to be true for people to ignore the substance of the argument in favor of the example—they have to care about the substance of the example, and then they have to be offended by the characterization of it. If they don’t care about Dawkins, there won’t be much to be offended about to begin with.
A implies B does not imply that B implies A.
But none of that matters, because that was a tongue-in-cheek response to somebody pursuing a line of argument about something I didn’t care about. It was not a serious response.
Only provided Dawkins was not in strong support here. There’s an asymmetry, because two things have to be true for people to ignore the substance of the argument in favor of the example—they have to care about the substance of the example, and then they have to be offended by the characterization of it. If they don’t care about Dawkins, there won’t be much to be offended about to begin with.
A implies B does not imply that B implies A.
But none of that matters, because that was a tongue-in-cheek response to somebody pursuing a line of argument about something I didn’t care about. It was not a serious response.