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Cognitive scientist at Harvard.

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    Steven Pinker‏Verified account @sapinker 28 Jan 2016

    The violence of the "Safe Space". http://tmblr.co/ZMPgWy20TZBcA 

    5:03 PM - 28 Jan 2016
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      1. Chris Graham Mastering‏ @ChrisGMastering 28 Jan 2016
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        @sapinker @tferriss we need a movement to create "safe space" safe spaces where people are free from safe spaces.

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      1. Al Norman‏ @captain_anxious 28 Jan 2016
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        @sapinker Trans people live in fear for their own lives, and it's thanks to outspoken transphobes like Brendan O'Neill.

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      1. Simon Tuffen‏ @SimonTuffen 28 Jan 2016
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        @sapinker Safe Spacers are just like religionists: they think everyone's views can be offensive & subject to censorship, except their own.

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      1. marc blanc‏ @blancmarc20 28 Jan 2016
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        @sapinker @spikedonline sounds like hysteria. My guess is safe spaces will be out of fashion in a couple of years

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      1. Elise Heise‏ @eliseheise 28 Jan 2016
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        @sapinker Should the article have a "trigger warning? (Yes, I'm kidding) :P

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      1. Tangled Zans‏ @tangled_zans 28 Jan 2016
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        @sapinker et tu, steven pinker!?

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      1. Joël Dickinson‏ @DrD_LU 28 Jan 2016
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        @sapinker but not all are like this. I give 'safe space' talks about embracing differences, other perspectives generate better ideas

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      2. Communo-Stalinist‏ @ZombieDiamond 28 Jan 2016
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        @sapinker i think o'neill really just wants his own safe space, one where women and minorities keep quiet

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      2. Lise‏ @e2Lise 28 Jan 2016
        Replying to @sapinker

        I recently discovered that @sapinker is Canadian. Someone in Shanghai told me. Crazy world : )

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      4. Lise‏ @e2Lise 29 Jan 2016
        Replying to @FrankBath

        @FrankBath Canadians are different from Americans and Mexicans, we Canadians get excited when we find out someone famous is from Canada

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      1. fer‏ @efedoso 29 Jan 2016
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        @sapinker @frandavid100 Tras los dos primeros párrafos, 1984. Lo tengo reciente. Luego el autor hace el mismo paralelismo. Da miedo.

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      1. amanda batty‏ @theamandabatty 29 Jan 2016
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        @sapinker ... like any other political interaction, it's all seen as 'good' or 'bad' instead of 'shades of WTF?'.

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      1. amanda batty‏ @theamandabatty 29 Jan 2016
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        @sapinker The entire 'safe space' argument tends to be polarized; both sides shouting at one another instead of actively seeking peace.

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      1. Rich Wenger‏ @cRichardWenger 29 Jan 2016
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        @sapinker In my academic days we called the safe space "the library" and you carried a programmable calculators not a gun.

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      1. Dan shore‏ @yuca_dan 28 Jan 2016
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        @sapinker I just go fetal and create my own safe space

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