What's depressing about the smear campaign against Steven Pinker is not that some people are nasty enough to lie about him, which is to be expected, but that they have had such success when all it takes is a 30 second google to be proven wrong. It's as if people want to be fooled
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Replying to @G_S_Bhogal
Okay. I’m out of the loop on this one. Who’s making an accusation against Pinker?
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Gurindoor Retweeted Saloni
Best to read this thread by Pinker's dedicated bodyguard,
@salonium:https://twitter.com/salonium/status/950740732729528320 …Gurindoor added,
Saloni @saloniumNo, that's not what he says. Saying otherwise intelligent people *gravitate* to the alt right (where they come to dumb conclusions & which includes many unintelligent ppl) isn't the same as saying the alt right are intelligent. https://twitter.com/alexwitoslawski/status/950608890852454400 …Show this thread1 reply 0 retweets 3 likes -
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It's basically trying to convince people he's a Nazi, at the end of the day. And it's spread across Twitter quite a bit, so it needs to be called out.
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Replying to @G_S_Bhogal @jeh7041
Saloni Retweeted christoph
Yeah. For a short and rather inconsequential clip, it actually spread quite a lot yesterday, see here for example: https://twitter.com/Halalcoholism/status/951079841561853952 … And then obv the DailyStormer thing is very annoying as well
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Replying to @salonium @G_S_Bhogal
His detractors think Pinker had in mind the Charlottesville brown shirts when he said "alt right." I'm sure he was thinking of people like Jordan Peterson or Damore.pic.twitter.com/3pjqzGPbm8
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Replying to @SethLargo @G_S_Bhogal
But neither of those two are alt right. Peterson is a religious conservative & Damore is a centrist/libertarian. I think he meant people like Steve Sailer & Richard Spencer.
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Replying to @salonium @G_S_Bhogal
Could be. Either way, there's prob a gulf between whatever Pinker was thinking when he said "alt right" and whatever the term is conjuring in the minds of the twitter mob.
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Yeah, I've noticed the alt-right is a wide spectrum. On the one hand you have the Shitlords of Kek, who are basically just trolls. Then you have the Paul Joseph Watsons, who are anti-immigrant but generally libertarian. Then you have the tradsters. Then, you have actual Nazis.
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Replying to @G_S_Bhogal @salonium
Right. That's what I was getting at. But like Saloni has been saying, even if he did mean actual Nazis (I doubt he did), he's being taken out of context in a bad way.
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