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    Steven Pinker‏Verified account @sapinker 14 Feb 2015

    Unintentional reductio ad absurdum: "Colleges Need Speech Codes Because Their Students Are Still Children" http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/view_from_chicago/2015/02/university_speech_codes_students_are_children_who_must_be_protected.html?wpsrc=sh_all_dt_tw_top … via @slate

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      2. Nicholas A. Christakis‏ @NAChristakis 14 Feb 2015
        Replying to @sapinker

        @sapinker I read that yesterday and concluded that he had to be tongue-in-cheek, especially given Posner's political bent. #modestproposal

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      2. matt keevil‏ @mattkeevil 14 Feb 2015
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        @sapinker @Slate @EricAPosner "Students who enter college know hardly anything at all—that’s why they need an education" implies everyone1/2

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      3. matt keevil‏ @mattkeevil 14 Feb 2015
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        @sapinker @Slate @EricAPosner ... w/out post secondary degree must be a perpetual child. A bit elitist, no?

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      1. M or N‏ @Meehaul 14 Feb 2015
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        @sapinker @Slate I thought he wrote it as satire. I guess not.

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      1. Nigel Tolley #FBPEU‏ @discreetsecure 14 Feb 2015
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        @sapinker @Slate college/university is where kids are meant to become adults - living away, few rules & growing. If not there, then where?

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      1. Rand Simberg‏ @Rand_Simberg 14 Feb 2015
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        @sapinker We've infantilized them. Why we have to keep them on insurance policies until age 26. @slate

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      1.  🎸Rickenhacker  💻‏ @Rickenhacker 16 Feb 2015
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        @sapinker also proof by induction that everyone remains permanently a child, and we must all protect each other from adulthood!

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      1. Randall Parker‏ @futurepundit 14 Feb 2015
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        @sapinker @Slate A woman I worked with who knew Mario Savo at Berkeley said he was very smart. http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Mario_Savio …

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      1. '(Ivan Pierre)‏ @ivanpierre 14 Feb 2015
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        @sapinker @yogthos "… that pretty much no one agrees with but has the underappreciated merit of being correct" :Dhttp://ericposner.com/a-defense-of-speech-and-sex-regulations-on-university-campuses/ …

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      1. xeʀᴏsᴏᴍe‏ @xerosome 14 Feb 2015
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        @sapinker @Slate Do speech codes actually produce more responsible adults? There must be some statistics on graduates regarding this.

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      1. Manic Ogre Dream Girl‏ @DiojeanneSignup 14 Feb 2015
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        @sapinker @Slate Colleges need speech codes because the social masters will never again accept a 60s youth revolution. It's that simple.

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      1. The Yeti‏ @El_Cool_Arrow 14 Feb 2015
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        @sapinker oh my, it appears that the author is a Law Professor at the Univ. Of Chicago. I feel sorry for his students. @Slate

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      1. Rikortez‏ @Rikortez 14 Feb 2015
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        @sapinker @Slate The question that should be asked: why are they "children"?

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      1. The Yeti‏ @El_Cool_Arrow 14 Feb 2015
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        @sapinker "not even wrong " is the phrase that comes to mind here.@Slate

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      1. Mark Harrigan‏ @Oz_Mark 14 Feb 2015
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        @sapinker @Slate And will remain so until we treat them like adults- that's how they become one-by facing up to what it means

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      1. Torque‏ @Rumtitidily 14 Feb 2015
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        @sapinker @Slate colleges isnt about preparing for the real world but to coddle the students into a false sense of security?

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      1. Synthetic‏ @SR71999 14 Feb 2015
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        @sapinker @Slate Funny how they're not still children when they're doing porn to pay for school.

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      1. Taylor Nezbit‏ @TayNez81 14 Feb 2015
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        @sapinker @Slate It's amazing how, in many ways, 13 year old's are less coddled than College students.

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      1. John, who hikes‏ @jjhikes 14 Feb 2015
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        @sapinker @Slate it is pretty important that High Schools produce graduates who can function as adults and citizens.

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