Hitchslap

All the ‘Milo OWNS stupid feminist’ type of videos today are made with much the same style as the new atheist videos that were equally numerous on YouTube a few years before with titles like ‘HITCHSLAP. Hitchens OWNS stupid Christian woman’.

The articles Christopher Hitchens dedicated to these real-life skirmishes left his readers in little doubt as to which side he was on. His “Hitchslap” putdowns of Islam and every other religious group or utterance are as caustic as they are uncompromising.

A few years after the creation of YouTube in 2005, the site was full of 'Hitchslap' videos, showing the master either wittily insulting interlocutors or simply stating his abhorrence of their views with great vehemence.

As an aside, my favourite Hitchslap is from a public debate in which he was challenged on the subject of prayer by a venerable cleric. When confronted with the question of whether he, a self-proclaimed antitheist and libertarian, had ever prayed, he happily conceded that yes, once, he had done so. For a hard-on.