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    Steven Pinker‏Verified account @sapinker Oct 13

    Linda Gottfredson, an expert on occupational interests and intelligence, is the latest disinvited speaker. (She's also on a McCarthyite list of "extremists" by the Southern Poverty Law Ctr, once a respected civil rights org., now aggressively illiberal.)https://quillette.com/2018/10/12/linda-gottfredsons-scientific-keynote-cancelled-why/ …

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      2. Daniel Schuman‏Verified account @danielschuman Oct 13
        Replying to @sapinker @Steven_Strauss

        It’s worth reading what they say about her.https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/individual/linda-gottfredson …

        5 replies 4 retweets 44 likes
      3. Steven LeBeau‏ @TunaBeeElves Oct 13
        Replying to @danielschuman @sapinker @Steven_Strauss

        If you get a large chunk of your funding from The Pioneer Fund, which was founded by a eugenicist and has continued to fund research that could be seen as relevant to propagating racist ideas, it goes a bit beyond simple “guilt by association.” As they say, “follow the money.”

        1 reply 6 retweets 49 likes
      4. Sam Hicks‏ @samfhicks Oct 14
        Replying to @TunaBeeElves @danielschuman and

        The Pioneer Fund doesn't even have a website. I'm not sure they even exist anymore.

        1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
      5. Daniel Schuman‏Verified account @danielschuman Oct 14
        Replying to @samfhicks @TunaBeeElves and

        It stopped filing tax returns in 2012, I think. But its assets may have been redistributed to other funds: JSP Education Foundation (which filed a Tax return in Sep 2018) and the Ulster Institute for social Research (which has a Webpage)https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2013/10/22/pioneer-fund-assets-divided-new-leadership-appointed …

        1 reply 0 retweets 14 likes
      6. Daniel Schuman‏Verified account @danielschuman Oct 14
        Replying to @danielschuman @samfhicks and

        But as you can see from the SPLC, they funded her work for years and she had made racist statements.

        2 replies 0 retweets 18 likes
      7. Louis Boliou‏ @LCBoliou Oct 14
        Replying to @danielschuman @samfhicks and

        Biological properties defining a differential in specific human gene pools based on evolutionary biology is a reality. Would acknowledging those differences in an objective manner be racist to you?

        1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
      8. Daniel Schuman‏Verified account @danielschuman Oct 14
        Replying to @LCBoliou @samfhicks and

        You have 19 twitter followers, so it’s probably a bad idea to take you seriously. But this quote of hers is racist. IQ is not a measure of intelligence. The groups she is identifying are not distinct in this way (or for some, in any way) from the general population.pic.twitter.com/OI8TulW4mZ

        5 replies 2 retweets 13 likes
      9. Daniel Schuman‏Verified account @danielschuman Oct 14
        Replying to @danielschuman @LCBoliou and

        Also, you’re approving cites and links to the gateway pundit gets you muted

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      2. Ceiling Eyes‏ @basementbb Oct 13
        Replying to @sapinker

        McCarthyite? I guess it’s perfectly fine to accept white nationalist funding? On top of that, we should give that tainted research a platform? Please explain.

        2 replies 1 retweet 33 likes
      3. Hamstring‏ @bc_nbc Oct 14
        Replying to @basementbb @sapinker

        Read the comments after the article. I learned some things. Maybe you will, too.

        1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
      4. Ceiling Eyes‏ @basementbb Oct 14
        Replying to @bc_nbc @sapinker

        I, as a rule, don’t rely on comment sections for information but if you point me to the relevant cited information I would be happy to give it a read.

        2 replies 0 retweets 10 likes
      5. Hamstring‏ @bc_nbc Oct 14
        Replying to @basementbb @sapinker

        Begins here, far down the page, regarding the org with which I was not acquainted. There is a counter response to this comment, further down the page. Eugenics is such a touchy topic, and rightly so, is easy to mistake genetic husbandry for abuse.pic.twitter.com/5Tcw852wez

        3 replies 0 retweets 1 like
      6. Nugz Bunny‏ @Nugzbunni Oct 15
        Replying to @bc_nbc @basementbb @sapinker

        What hell point is this trying to make?

        2 replies 0 retweets 14 likes
      7. End of conversation
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      2. Robert D‏ @capsnskins Oct 13
        Replying to @sapinker

        The Southern Poverty Law Center is on their own list.

        1 reply 1 retweet 33 likes
      3. N.G.McClernan‏ @ngmcclernan Oct 15
        Replying to @capsnskins @sapinker

        Aw look at all Pinker's racist fans who hate a venerable organization fighting racists and bigots. I keep thinking Pinker can sink no lower into the Quillette/racist muck, and he keeps proving me wrong.

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      2.  👻 Ill_Kalon Kakon_lll ™ 🎃‏ @IlIOcherokeelIl Oct 15
        Replying to @sapinker

        Imagine if leftists weren't allowed to voice their concerns about known racists. Or if they did, that they were met with ridicule instead. I wonder what a free speech loving right wing would say about that.

        1 reply 0 retweets 6 likes
      3. Producer Dave‏ @Plex_Dave Oct 15
        Replying to @IlIOcherokeelIl @sapinker

        Pinker, Harris, Peterson, and other fake smart people would love that. They espouse free speech but want to shut down criticisms.

        1 reply 0 retweets 5 likes
      4. N.G.McClernan‏ @ngmcclernan Oct 15
        Replying to @Plex_Dave @IlIOcherokeelIl @sapinker

        They absolutely do. And they'll block any and all critics. They experience criticism as oppression.

        1 reply 1 retweet 2 likes
      5. Producer Dave‏ @Plex_Dave Oct 15
        Replying to @ngmcclernan @IlIOcherokeelIl @sapinker

        I dunno about the others, but Harris specifically was born into massive wealth.

        1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes
      6. N.G.McClernan‏ @ngmcclernan Oct 15
        Replying to @Plex_Dave @IlIOcherokeelIl @sapinker

        So was Dawkins, who is part of that race science crowd. Dawkins family made its fortune through slaves.https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/9091007/Slaves-at-the-root-of-the-fortune-that-created-Richard-Dawkins-family-estate.html …

        1 reply 2 retweets 2 likes
      7. Producer Dave‏ @Plex_Dave Oct 15
        Replying to @ngmcclernan @IlIOcherokeelIl @sapinker

        Harris' money comes from The Golden Girls. But yeah, if you've never worried about the basics, like ever, maybe criticism is horrible oppression.

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