The smear job currently being done on Stephen Pinker - imputing that he’s praising the alt-right - is an absolute disgrace. The clip doing the rounds is deceptively cut from a nuanced talk in which he explicitly talks about helping young ppl intellectually reject alt-right ideas.
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It should be no surprise that the person responsible for the Pinker video is one of left-wing Twitter’s most dishonest people, who specialises in this kind of smear job. It is disappointing that so many verified users have shared it seemingly without even watching the full clip.
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This is Pinker’s entire talk. (Ignore the title, he’s not responsible for that) I can’t link the dishonestly-edited clip because the guy who made it has me blocked (as with most anyone who calls out his bullshit), but you can search for it easily enough. https://youtu.be/kTiRnbNT5uE
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Alt-Right: “The SJWs are always calling everyone Nazis, they’re so full of shit.” *An SJW selectively edits a clip to make it seem, falsely, like Stephen Pinker is sympathetic to the Alt-Right* Alt-Right: “Hey look, Stephen Pinker likes us!”pic.twitter.com/NMnAzQoygU
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"A lie can travel halfway around the world before the truth can get its boots on."pic.twitter.com/uJ11M7TQUg
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Irony: many ppl who RTd this smear would be the first to accuse others of “normalising the Alt-Right.” Well, they just spread the false claim that Pinker, a world-renowned psychologist, praised the Alt-Right. And Richard fucking Spencer RTd it. Congrats.https://twitter.com/halalcoholism/status/951079841561853952 …
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The person who edited the Pinker clip, Sacha Saeen, is a serial offender, as broken down here by
@concretemilk. He also blocks just about anyone who calls him out on it, thus maintaining an echo chamber with which to propagate bullshit unchallenged.https://twitter.com/concretemilk/status/951110873216704512 …christoph added,
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Here’s another example of how Saeen takes people’s words completely out of context in order to smear them.https://twitter.com/halalcoholism/status/923003892564033537 …
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A couple years back, when I was a democratic socialist, Sacha was one of my mutuals. Even then I recall him being a habitual liar. He made me seriously reconsider the kinds of people I was allying myself with.
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