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    Steven Pinker‏Verified account @sapinker 3 Feb 2016

    We should be teaching students: 1 All words have >1 meaning.. 2. Mature adults resist taking pointless offense. .https://shar.es/14aofE 

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      1. Chris Aldrich‏ @ChrisAldrich 3 Feb 2016
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        .@sapinker Will a @SouthwestAir flight attendant (stewardess?) chose the replacement with Eeny, meeny, miny, moe?http://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2015/04/16/losing-count/ …

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      1. Good Life Decoder‏ @GoodLifeDecoder 3 Feb 2016
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        @sapinker My goodness, it's really getting embarrassing now. Not to mention, this kind of outrage devalues real issues that deserve it.

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      1. Liz Cox‏ @californiacox 6 Feb 2016
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        @sapinker 1. Yes we should 2. The house masters unanimously agreed to change it 3. Worth noting all who say it is coddling are white

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      1. jeffhack‏ @PorscheJeff 3 Feb 2016
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        @sapinker What they really, truly want is for someone to convincingly defend hierarchies and institutions, to make them believe. No one can.

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      1. FederalistNY‏ @TxFederalist46 3 Feb 2016
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        @sapinker @CHSommers Old enuf to remember when "good manners" was a coveted value. Right to offend not same as "OK to intentionally offend"

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      1. Chris Thompson‏ @CGlennT 3 Feb 2016
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        @sapinker Potentially Offensive is the new offensive. This "movement" is disgusting.

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      1. Tenebris Spiritus‏ @TenebriSpiritus 3 Feb 2016
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        @sapinker How to distinguish between the righteously offended and the pointlessly offended?

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      1. jcscaliger‏ @jcscaliger 3 Feb 2016
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        @sapinker Hopelessly inapplicable. What about racial or antisemitic slurs? Should mature adults resist taking only *pointless* offense?

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      1. Marcissistic‏ @Memetherapy1 3 Feb 2016
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        @sapinker We should also refuse to take offense as some kind of legitimate argument.

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      1. Ryan Swallow 🍸‏ @ryanswallow 3 Feb 2016
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        @sapinker How about suggesting that instead of House Master, #HouseCoddler ?

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      1. Maudadayo‏ @mauricioforsale 3 Feb 2016
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        @sapinker Remember the 'spooks' episode in Philip Roth's The Human Stain?

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      1. John Malik‏ @kilamie 5 Feb 2016
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        @sapinker universal agreement can never be found in words. Universality is simply present.

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      1. WCHS #308 French‏ @wchs_308french 4 Feb 2016
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        @sapinker Once in response to parent email I said "perhaps she does this because of her ignorance of French" reply "she is not ignorant!"

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      1. David Thomas‏ @vanya42st 4 Feb 2016
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        @sapinker After skimming Wittgenstein's "Investigations" I was never certain words had meaning tho poetry/art did. Rabbit? Duck?

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      1. hotjohnnierock‏ @hotjohnnierock 4 Feb 2016
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        @sapinker I have a suggestion. Instead of 'house masters' perhaps 'house slaves' would mollify and increase accuracy simultaneously.

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      1. WyeBother‏ @museumadvisor 4 Feb 2016
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        @sapinker One of the creative wonders of language is its ambiguity. I think.

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      1. Cuban Writer‏ @cuban_writer 3 Feb 2016
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        @sapinker @CHSommers Well, except perhaps for 'ceritheberia.' And maybe 'totraniolississm.'

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      1. LeeAnn McGinnis‏ @LeeAnnMcGinnis 3 Feb 2016
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        @sapinker @NAChristakis Stuff they should learn by third grade.

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