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    Steven Pinker‏Verified account @sapinker 19 Feb 2016

    The left’s problem with Jews has a long and miserable history - Simon Schama in http://FT.com  http://on.ft.com/1Q5U1Vi  via @FT

    8:38 PM - 19 Feb 2016
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      2. AxeGrrl  🎸‏ @Axe_Grrl 19 Feb 2016
        Replying to @sapinker

        @sapinker Too bad. I was interested in reading itpic.twitter.com/lfdN4NVVlw

        1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
      3. John‏ @JohnAylwin 20 Feb 2016
        Replying to @Axe_Grrl

        @Axe_Grrl I don't understand this, but if I google the title and click the first link I get to read it (works where I am at least)

        3 replies 0 retweets 2 likes
      4. AxeGrrl  🎸‏ @Axe_Grrl 20 Feb 2016
        Replying to @JohnAylwin

        @JohnAylwin Success....thnx again :)

        0 replies 0 retweets 1 like
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      1. Tyler‏ @tzaned 19 Feb 2016
        Replying to @sapinker

        @sapinker @FT Milton Friedman had some good insights on this: http://fee.org/articles/capitalism-and-the-jews/ …

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      1. Jack Patterson‏ @JacquotLeGrand 19 Feb 2016
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        @sapinker @FT The problem is that the left stands for social justice for all, not just for Jews...

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      2. Jim Austin‏ @JimAustin45 19 Feb 2016
        Replying to @sapinker

        @sapinker @FT Jews have been associated with the Enlightenment. The left started as a reaction to Enlightenment. Problems were inevitable.

        1 reply 0 retweets 3 likes
      3. David Cryer‏ @davidcryer2 20 Feb 2016
        Replying to @JimAustin45

        @JimAustin45 Since when was the left a reaction to enlightenment?

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      4. Jim Austin‏ @JimAustin45 20 Feb 2016
        Replying to @davidcryer2

        @davidcryer2 Since Rousseau denounced reason, science, technology, civilization, and urged the primitive, hunter-gatherer way of life.

        5 replies 0 retweets 1 like
      5. Alex Longman‏ @ADLongman 20 Feb 2016
        Replying to @JimAustin45

        @JimAustin45 @davidcryer2 Yes Rousseau was counter-enlightenment; which inspired the romantic ideas of Nazism and Marxism.

        1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
      6. Jim Austin‏ @JimAustin45 21 Feb 2016
        Replying to @ADLongman

        @AlexLongman92 @davidcryer2 Not certain I'd characterize either Nazism or Marxism as "romantic."

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      7. Alex Longman‏ @ADLongman 22 Feb 2016
        Replying to @JimAustin45

        @JimAustin45 @davidcryer2 Romantic notions within them of rendering human limitations/burdens/alienations obsolete.

        2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes
      8. David Cryer‏ @davidcryer2 22 Feb 2016
        Replying to @ADLongman

        @AlexLongman92 @JimAustin45 Romanticism leads to Nazism like apologist argument atheism=eugenics. Marx can be seen as part of enlightenment

        1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
      9. Jim Austin‏ @JimAustin45 22 Feb 2016
        Replying to @davidcryer2

        @davidcryer2 @AlexLongman92 How does romanticism lead to Nazism? Marx tried to synthesize Enlightenment with its reaction.

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      2. Truestriver‏ @TRUESTR1VER 20 Feb 2016
        Replying to @sapinker

        @sapinker @DAaronovitch really ? So we can't cover crimes committed by this group like any other group?

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      3. David Aaronovitch‏ @DAaronovitch 20 Feb 2016
        Replying to @TRUESTR1VER

        @POLITICALMUSLIM ‘This group’?@sapinker

        2 replies 0 retweets 1 like
      4. Truestriver‏ @TRUESTR1VER 20 Feb 2016
        Replying to @DAaronovitch

        @DAaronovitch @sapinker ok this religious group ? Why the "protection" ..nobody else gets it ?

        1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
      5. David Aaronovitch‏ @DAaronovitch 20 Feb 2016
        Replying to @TRUESTR1VER

        @POLITICALMUSLIM What ‘group’ gets ‘protection’ that no one else does? @sapinker

        1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
      6. Truestriver‏ @TRUESTR1VER 20 Feb 2016
        Replying to @DAaronovitch

        @DAaronovitch @sapinker holocaust memorial/ any insult or denial = jail. Yet African slavery over 400yrs no compensation.

        2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes
      7. David Aaronovitch‏ @DAaronovitch 20 Feb 2016
        Replying to @TRUESTR1VER

        @POLITICALMUSLIM Are you trying to say that Jews enjoy special protection? @sapinker

        1 reply 1 retweet 0 likes
      8. Truestriver‏ @TRUESTR1VER 20 Feb 2016
        Replying to @DAaronovitch

        @DAaronovitch @sapinker do you think Jews had any involvement in the salve trade?

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      9. David Aaronovitch‏ @DAaronovitch 20 Feb 2016
        Replying to @TRUESTR1VER

        @POLITICALMUSLIM Some will have done. As will many Muslims. Why? @sapinker

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