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Cognitive scientist at Harvard.

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    Steven Pinker‏Verified account @sapinker 5 Jun 2014

    It wasn't just that interview - in Salon, Zizek comes across as a vulgar, misanthropic jackass. http://www.salon.com/2012/12/29/slavoj_zizek_i_am_not_the_worlds_hippest_philosopher/ … via @Salon

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      2. ClaudioDeSat‏ @ClaudioDeSat 5 Jun 2014
        Replying to @sapinker

        @sapinker He's also a moronic obscurantist full of himself.

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      3. David Jones‏ @metaburbia 5 Jun 2014
        Replying to @ClaudioDeSat

        @skepteaser @sapinker I think he's quite amusing as long as you don't take anything he says at all seriously

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      4. ClaudioDeSat‏ @ClaudioDeSat 5 Jun 2014
        Replying to @metaburbia

        @metaburbia So is Chopra, then. The general public can't distinguish charlatans. We'd be better off w/out giving them importance. @sapinker

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      5. David Jones‏ @metaburbia 5 Jun 2014
        Replying to @ClaudioDeSat

        @skepteaser @sapinker isn't Zizek very obviously a joke? A comic creation?

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      6. ClaudioDeSat‏ @ClaudioDeSat 5 Jun 2014
        Replying to @metaburbia

        @metaburbia Never heard. What's the evidence for such interpretation? I consider an artefact of cultural Marxism the fact that @sapinker

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      7. ClaudioDeSat‏ @ClaudioDeSat 5 Jun 2014
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        @metaburbia @sapinker an outspoken apologist for Stalin is regarded benignly, as we wouldn't tolerate apologists for Hitler.

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      8. David Jones‏ @metaburbia 5 Jun 2014
        Replying to @ClaudioDeSat

        @skepteaser @sapinker ...which is why I take him to be a joke.

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      9. ClaudioDeSat‏ @ClaudioDeSat 5 Jun 2014
        Replying to @metaburbia

        @metaburbia He is taken very seriously by his followers and that is a sufficiently disturbing realisation. @sapinker

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      1. sagredo‏ @scara99 6 Jun 2014
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        @sapinker @Salon what else would you expect? As we were warned in school, reading Hegel makes one stupid as this guy patently demonstrate.

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      1. Ronnie Corvid‏ @ronniecorvid 5 Jun 2014
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        @sapinker @Salon only if you take everything he says seriously.

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      1. Irfan Khan MD‏ @ikhanep 5 Jun 2014
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        @sapinker @Salon Agreed. There is the appearance of mannered brutishness in everything he says. I'll take my cues from Dan Dennett any day.

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      1. Viev Apointoff‏ @VievApointoff 5 Jun 2014
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        @sapinker @Salon Really?-A nobody? And how many of his books did you read?

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      1. JV‏ @VitalusJv 5 Jun 2014
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        @sapinker Zizek, the gurú of the New spanish populist Star!

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      1. paul kramarchyk‏ @paul_kramarchyk 5 Jun 2014
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        @sapinker @Salon Never heard of him. Now that I have, hard to believe anyone takes him seriously enough to comment. Relax, he doesn't matter

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      1. Rebbe Bupkis‏ @rebbebupkis 5 Jun 2014
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        @sapinker @Salon Yeah, I'm with you. That was rather icky.

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      1. Rudi Podgornik‏ @rpodgornik 5 Jun 2014
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        @sapinker Au point. He always was. MT “In Salon, Zizek comes across as a vulgar, misanthropic jackass. http://www.salon.com/2012/12/29/slavoj_zizek_i_am_not_the_worlds_hippest_philosopher/ … via @Salon”

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      1. jeffhack‏ @PorscheJeff 5 Jun 2014
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        @sapinker @Salon says authoritarianism is virtuous but not why, revealing him as an empty contrarian - whatever you're for he's against.

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      1. Eplinovo‏ @eplinovo 5 Jun 2014
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        @sapinker stop twitting about that character. You feeding this quasi-celebrity narcissist nobody (all of you)

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