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Cognitive scientist at Harvard.

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    Steven Pinker‏Verified account @sapinker Aug 1

    Liberals should not retreat from a commitment to free speech just because the First Amendment has sometimes been used to promote conservative causes. It’s essential to holding the powerful accountble and advancing beneficial change.https://nyti.ms/2NYQ2wc 

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      2. Spencer Mermelstein‏ @sjmermelstein Aug 1
        Replying to @sapinker

        Steven we hear you, but right now conservatives are putting kids in cages. Let’s increase the bandwidth on that issue ?

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      4. LanceSmith‏ @LanceSmith1100 Aug 1
        Replying to @LHVPundit @sjmermelstein @sapinker

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      2. Susan Rockwell‏ @redact_group Aug 1
        Replying to @sapinker

        This assumption that "liberals" take issue with free speech and "conservatives" are helping them to understand 1A is ridiculous.

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      3. Valence Smith‏ @smith_valence Aug 1
        Replying to @redact_group @sapinker

        If you change it to the far left as opposed to liberals, I agree. Calling the far left "liberal" at this point is an abuse of the word. This doesn't include actual liberals who are usually center-left/center-right. All of the deplatforming clowns I've seen are far left.

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      4. Justin Painful Death 🗡 🗡‏ @crashfrog Aug 1
        Replying to @smith_valence @redact_group @sapinker

        All the "far left" is doing is speaking. It's the right that's actually attempting to legally enjoin certain kinds of speech they don't like.

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      1. Clark H‏ @Clarksterh Aug 1
        Replying to @sapinker

        Odd article title. Free speech inherently ‘favors’ whatever groups are currently NOT in power in sector X and thus acts as a balance.

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      1. Adolfo R.‏ @wirchoreal Aug 1
        Replying to @sapinker

        Yes! Also conservatives should not retreat from commitment to free speech just because some of the media reveals their leader’s corruption.

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      2. Joe Wrightson‏ @JoeWrig Aug 1
        Replying to @sapinker

        I thought you were all about statistical data. What evidence do you have that "liberals" are retreating from commitment to free speech? Spare me the anecdotal university protest narratives.

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      3. Higgs‏ @DiracWinsAgain Aug 1
        Replying to @JoeWrig @sapinker

        ACLU determining that it would stop taking certain free speech cases based on the content of the speech:https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-aclu-retreats-from-free-expression-1529533065 …

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      4. Joe Wrightson‏ @JoeWrig Aug 1
        Replying to @DiracWinsAgain @sapinker

        Point taken. However: 1.ACLU, as a nonprofit, depends on donations. Donors seriously weighed in after Charlottesville. 2. White supremacism is not conservatism. 3. ACLU case peripheral to Pinker's gross generalization.

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      5. Higgs‏ @DiracWinsAgain Aug 1
        Replying to @JoeWrig @sapinker

        1) Sure. I think their donors are being illiberal, and I rethink my donations to the ACLU when they start working on content prioritization. 2) That's true (though growing less true). 3) Center left folks dropping donations to ACLU seems like exactly what he's talking about.

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      7. Higgs‏ @DiracWinsAgain Aug 2
        Replying to @JoeWrig @sapinker

        White supremacism is stupid and awful, but free speech *cannot* hinge on whether or not something is a "legitimate political position". If you have legitimate and illegitimate positions you must necessarily have legitamizers of political positions. This is deeply illiberal.

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      8. Joe Wrightson‏ @JoeWrig Aug 2
        Replying to @DiracWinsAgain @sapinker

        Agree. Which brings us full circle. I find Pinker's penchant for presenting such issues as "liberal/conservative " insufferable.

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      1. Monica Baumann‏ @MonicaBaumann Aug 1
        Replying to @sapinker

        I'm a free speech absolutist, but I think you know that liberals who are free speech skeptics didn't get that way "just because" of conservative speech.

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      1. Naomi Shen, PhD‏ @ShenTheWise Aug 1
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      1. aakrell‏ @LaCourelle Aug 1
        Replying to @sapinker

        If you're against free speech you are not liberal, by definition.

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