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Cognitive scientist at Harvard.

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pinker.wjh.harvard.edu
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    Steven Pinker‏Verified account @sapinker Jun 17

    Steven Pinker Retweeted EL PAÍS SEMANAL

    Interview (with somewhat scary pictures) in El Pais.https://twitter.com/elpaissemanal/status/1008273128634634241 …

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    EL PAÍS SEMANALVerified account @elpaissemanal
    Steven Pinker vuelve ahora a la carga con una obra mayor. Un trabajo que ha cosechado el aplauso internacional y que Bill Gates ha definido como su “libro favorito de todos los tiempos” http://ow.ly/qoaf30ktXQW 
    3:55 AM - 17 Jun 2018
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    11 replies 40 retweets 138 likes
      1. Malek Tohme‏ @TohmeMalek Jun 17
        Replying to @sapinker

        Best thing I’ve ever readpic.twitter.com/1ytDoyy35x

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      1. J. 🎃P = .06 🎃 de Ruiter‏ @JPdeRuiter Jun 17
        Replying to @sapinker

        I think your hair looks fine.

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      1. Carlos López‏ @BrainstormCarlo Jun 17
        Replying to @sapinker

        Is Trump a populist? I am not so sure. Maybe he just has populist campaign marketing. A clash between political correctness hypocrisy and gross emotional manipulation. Trump, here comes... The Clash! http://pajobvios.blogspot.fr/2016/11/trump-here-comes-clash.html …

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      1. Troy Blackford‏ @TBlackford3 Jun 17
        Replying to @sapinker

        Of course, that's all a matter of taste, and everybody justifies their own tastes. But these photos are cool, and you might just enjoy Stephen King's "The Shining" or "11/22/63" if you tried them with an open mind. PS Finally saw your latest TED Talk and really enjoyed it.

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      2. Victor Je Hache‏ @Victorjehache Jun 17
        Replying to @sapinker

        "Old white men are the core voters of Trump, Brexit and xenophobic parties." Is that even factually correct? I'm very surprised by that statement coming from you.

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      3. Victor Je Hache‏ @Victorjehache Jun 17
        Replying to @Victorjehache @sapinker

        Also, very concerning you forgot to mention maybe the strongest populism of our days, the one coming from third wave feminism. Which is the one that produces precisely the kind of statement you just said there.

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      4. Victor Je Hache‏ @Victorjehache Jun 17
        Replying to @Victorjehache @sapinker

        "Populists are afraid of cosmpolitanism, women's rights, minority rights... That scares old white men, who are the core advocates of Trump, Brexit and xenophobic parties". That implication is very disturbing.

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      1. Troy Blackford‏ @TBlackford3 Jun 17
        Replying to @sapinker

        For example, you once said in an interview that you think surreal fiction is "cheating" (or something to that effect) & compared literary fiction to tightrope walking "without a net." I'd think sustaining a reader's ability to believe in the impossible is a more impressive act.

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      1. Troy Blackford‏ @TBlackford3 Jun 17
        Replying to @sapinker

        Those pictures are amazing. I think if you have any weakness discernable from the vantage point of your readers (who don't really know you outside your writing & interviews) it's that you're not open to things like speculative fiction or more alternative, interpretive art forms.

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      2. BezCba‏ @benzgolv1 Jun 17
        Replying to @sapinker

        Steven, you call Trump and others “anti-science” but how can they be anti-science when it’s liberals that call a man dressed like a woman a “woman” and vice-versa. Also, it’s possible to defend capitalism and western values + traditional family and social conservativism (as I do)

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      3. Ontological Pillar‏ @OntoloPillar Jun 17
        Replying to @benzgolv1 @sapinker

        Woman vs female. I see where your POV originated, but woman is a social construction (implicated by) derivative of female. Hopefully people don’t get confused about what box to check at the doctors office...

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      4. BezCba‏ @benzgolv1 Jun 17
        Replying to @OntoloPillar @sapinker

        Being a woman is a consequence of being a female, not a social construction. Being a female defines certain behaviours that are different to the behaviours that men have as a consequence of being male. Brains and hormons are biologically different.

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      5. Ontological Pillar‏ @OntoloPillar Jun 17
        Replying to @benzgolv1 @sapinker

        And men and women overlap in their expression of those behaviors AND those hormones such that any singular definition of man/woman must be a construct of their society.

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      1. Free Thinker‏ @curiousmind44 Jun 17
        Replying to @sapinker

        Just a little scary....

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