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    Steven Pinker‏Verified account @sapinker May 28

    My video interview with Jordan Peterson is now available on YouTube, and soon will be on JP's podcast site @jordanbpeterson. https://youtu.be/7kUuURByaXc  via @YouTube

    9:41 AM - 28 May 2018
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      2. Aaron Don't Just Vote, Volunteer!‏Verified account @aaronhuertas May 28
        Replying to @sapinker @jordanbpeterson @YouTube

        When Peterson is talking to you about the left and oppression, he's not talking about poverty, he's engaging in discrimination denial. You're a smart guy, but you have a huge blind spot on civil rights I wish you would do more to address when you engage in politics.

        3 replies 2 retweets 52 likes
      3.  🦉 Wisdomination  🦉‏ @Supreme_Owl_FTW May 28
        Replying to @aaronhuertas @sapinker and

        There's no meaningful amount of discrimination against anyone in western societies.

        9 replies 0 retweets 6 likes
      4. Peter Jukes‏Verified account @peterjukes May 28
        Replying to @Supreme_Owl_FTW @aaronhuertas and

        Try getting a job if you have a Muslim name in the UK (80% less likely to get an interview). Try hailing a cab if you're female and brown. See how often you're stopped by the police if you're a person of colour. Rank ignorance on your part

        2 replies 8 retweets 28 likes
      5. John Lipnicki‏ @john_lipnicki May 28
        Replying to @peterjukes @Supreme_Owl_FTW and

        Same for Irish in the not so distant past. People dropped the O's.

        0 replies 0 retweets 6 likes
      6. End of conversation
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      2. ¥ung, The Adult‏ @theonlyChristus May 28
        Replying to @sapinker @jordanbpeterson @YouTube

        JP: So by "better angels" you mean the traditional radiant masculine force of order from ourcollective unconscious dominating the black feminine forces of our nature correct? SP: ...? JP: OH, so the "angels" are actually a metaphor for lobsters, our closest biological relative

        1 reply 1 retweet 22 likes
      3. S. Worthing‏ @Milkydinner May 28
        Replying to @theonlyChristus @sapinker and

        This is brilliant satire. You remembered to mention lobsters and everything.

        1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes
      4.  🦉 Wisdomination  🦉‏ @Supreme_Owl_FTW May 28
        Replying to @Milkydinner @theonlyChristus and

        It's cheap, lazy and evil. THIS is brilliant satire:http://www.wisdomination.com/scrambled-eggs-according-to-jordan-peterson/ …

        3 replies 0 retweets 4 likes
      5. S. Worthing‏ @Milkydinner May 28
        Replying to @Supreme_Owl_FTW @theonlyChristus and

        I forgot to hit my sarcasm button, I guess. Lazy is the word.

        0 replies 0 retweets 1 like
      6. End of conversation
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      2. John Harrington‏ @thebeartiger May 28
        Replying to @sapinker @jordanbpeterson @YouTube

        What a disappointment that you, of all people, so rational and so reasonable, should give publicity to a sophist and demagogue like Peterson. Why?

        2 replies 0 retweets 21 likes
      3. Justin‏ @TheJustinThorne May 28
        Replying to @thebeartiger @sapinker and

        Why are so many of Pinkers fans part of this anti-Peterson nonsense? I think they're both great voices on the either side of the spectrum

        1 reply 0 retweets 8 likes
      4. John Harrington‏ @thebeartiger May 28
        Replying to @TheJustinThorne @sapinker and

        Because Pinker's books appeal to rational people, not ideologues. Peterson is a loon. There's comparing him to Pinker. If you want one indisputable proof of this, listen to Peterson debate the nature of truth for over 2 hrs with Sam Harris, and try to imagine SP talking like that

        2 replies 0 retweets 4 likes
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      2. Janne M. Korhonen‏ @jmkorhonen May 28
        Replying to @sapinker @jordanbpeterson @YouTube

        You do know that in their time, the people we have to thank for enlightenment values were savagely attacked by retrogrades like Peterson - just as those the history shall remember in 300 years are attacked by retrogrades like Peterson? You do know this, I hope?

        1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes
      3. Matti Virtanen‏ @MVirtanen May 28
        Replying to @jmkorhonen @sapinker and

        Oh, Janne. You did notice that for the first half hour of the discussion they were talking about you, the gloomy academic intellectual and romantic pessimists who don't have a clue, didn't you?

        1 reply 0 retweets 5 likes
      4. Janne M. Korhonen‏ @jmkorhonen May 28
        Replying to @MVirtanen @sapinker and

        If I want to watch a clown, I go to a circus.

        1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
      5. Matti Virtanen‏ @MVirtanen May 28
        Replying to @jmkorhonen @sapinker and

        Good! There you may encounter a sword-swallower like Hans Rosling who will then tell you exactly the same factful story as Pinker and Peterson did. You still have hope.

        1 reply 1 retweet 6 likes
      6. Janne M. Korhonen‏ @jmkorhonen May 28
        Replying to @MVirtanen @sapinker and

        Of course I do have hope, but frankly speaking, if you can't see what is the problem with charlatans like Peterson, I do not wish to hear from you again. Of course, being a climate denialist should have been a giveaway. But good thing if you like lobsters!

        2 replies 0 retweets 1 like
      7. Janne M. Korhonen‏ @jmkorhonen May 28
        Replying to @jmkorhonen @MVirtanen and

        And using Rosling even in the same tweet thread as Peterson is, well. Not very bright. But as mentioned, that has been established already.

        0 replies 0 retweets 1 like
      8. End of conversation
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      2. Shay  🇺🇸 Resistance  ⚛‏ @cherokee_autumn May 28
        Replying to @sapinker @jordanbpeterson @YouTube

        Steven, How can you stand a charlatan like Peterson? Signed, Very Concerned

        4 replies 0 retweets 70 likes
      3. ResistanceNotFutile‏ @ReasonWinz May 28
        Replying to @cherokee_autumn @sapinker and

        There's a very simple answer to that:https://youtu.be/huMUGm5z6RE 

        3 replies 1 retweet 15 likes
      4. Todd Rhodes‏ @2qaz1wsx May 28
        Replying to @ReasonWinz @cherokee_autumn and

        I’m slow. What does Chomsky’s view on intellectuals historically falling into line with those in power have to do with Pinker promoting his book on Peterson’s podcast?

        1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
      5. ResistanceNotFutile‏ @ReasonWinz May 28
        Replying to @2qaz1wsx @cherokee_autumn and

        Re-read your question.

        1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
      6. Todd Rhodes‏ @2qaz1wsx May 28
        Replying to @ReasonWinz @cherokee_autumn and

        Like I said, I’m slow. Pinker was promoting his views to Peterson and his audience. Peterson was agreeing with Pinker. Who do you think is the powerful one in this relationship?

        1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
      7. ResistanceNotFutile‏ @ReasonWinz May 28
        Replying to @2qaz1wsx @cherokee_autumn and

        Neither. They're both members of an intellectual-class that is deeply subordinated to power & wealth, so they're naturally supportive of ideas that do not threaten it. Of course they're agreeing, they're simply "marching in the parade" (and getting everyone else to do so, too).

        2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes
      8. Andy B‏ @HeuristicWorld May 28
        Replying to @ReasonWinz @2qaz1wsx and

        What a bizarre way of thinking.

        0 replies 0 retweets 1 like
      9. End of conversation

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