A common thread of this turn is a gleeful shaming of the worries and fears of others. It has been a master class in the blindness of privilege, but delivered as though it were some brilliant lecture on that subject.
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I know many people who’ve known and admired Steven who are privately alarmed and fearful for him. But for a Harvard psychologist who teaches young minds to try to explain to millions of people that being afraid of terrorist attacks is getting conned is just disgraceful.
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Once again I am so proud to say that I was done with Pinker back in 1998 when he said Neanderthals couldn't use language because their vocal cavities were shaped wrong
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to be specific the book came out in 1994; I read it in 1998. So his wrongness definitely dates from at least the early 90s
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The problem is NOT that the media covers it, but how! Hyperventilating over talking to neighbours, friends and coworkers of targets, asking Obama staffers how they think he would feel about the bombs is not news. It's pornography! News is that it occurred, when-where-how-why?
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He's taken with his own intelligence. I have been unimpressed with his junk science.
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It part of this elitist condescension by flying above the fray. An affectation that nothing the proles on either side cares about is worthy of their concern. Serious people see that both sides are just self interested rubes trying to get what's theirs.
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I read this this morning and immediately thought of Ben Carson: even idiots can be brilliant at something. Not often, but it happens...
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His conduct during the Spelke/Pinker "The Gender of Gender and Science" debate started to sour me on his ability to see past his preconceptions, and I haven't seen much evidence that he's aware of a problem. Privilege is a hell of a drug.
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In US history these pipe bombs, whether live or not, are probably top five in importance, we're talking the civil war, war of 1812, Pearl Harbor, assassinations and this and what does Trump do? He steps up as a world class tyrant- in- training (TIT) and attacks the press
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I totally know what you mean. He was great...now...not so. WTF ???
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Pinker does some great work but this is an example of looking at the world with too much confirmation bias. As Feynman said, “The first principle is that you must not fool yourself—and you are the easiest person to fool.”
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He must believe that they're fake bombs, just bomb scares like a fake fire bell in school.
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agreed, not sure what Pinker's game is, it's similar to what Todd Gitlin has done, kind of a protector of the soft squishy liberal NPR middle.
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@sapinker a former President/Senator a former Vice President/Senator a former SOS/Senator, former head CIA, a sitting Congresswoman, a former Attorney General all were targeted for Assasination...it is quite the big deal an act of terrorism cc@AnandWritesThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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Ditto. I am also supremely disappointed in his stance on the "campus free speech issue."
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I can understand what he is saying the news takes one topic & turns it in to a 24/7 event, they talk about to the point it turns minor in the scope of all the other crap going on in this country/the world. Once they catch the person it will turn to them & starts all over again.
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Bizarro world
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What do you expect from a guy who’s got a hairdo like that...?
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PS .... talking about Pinker’s
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