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Cognitive scientist at Harvard.

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    Steven Pinker‏Verified account @sapinker 21 Jun 2016

    You can't make this up: Professor Investigated for Discussing Conflicting Viewpoints - FIREhttps://goo.gl/994yu0 

    7:53 PM - 21 Jun 2016
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      2. Jeff Brooks‏ @JeBroo5 21 Jun 2016
        Replying to @sapinker

        ladies and gentlemen, the time has come for trade school to regain its prestige. Less debt, more useful education.

        1 reply 0 retweets 8 likes
      3. Panchox‏ @Panchox 21 Jun 2016
        Replying to @JeBroo5 @sapinker

        trade schools are already more useful than some degrees, like gender studies.

        0 replies 0 retweets 2 likes
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      2. Communo-Stalinist‏ @ZombieDiamond 21 Jun 2016
        Replying to @sapinker

        Should teachers also "discuss opposing views of creationism and the holocaust"? Is straight lifestyle questioned in class?

        1 reply 1 retweet 2 likes
      3. Christian Morse‏ @1639ChrisMorse 21 Jun 2016
        Replying to @ZombieDiamond @sapinker

        Sure. Why not? Discussing certain views isn't the same as endorsing certain views.

        1 reply 0 retweets 4 likes
      4. Communo-Stalinist‏ @ZombieDiamond 21 Jun 2016
        Replying to @1639ChrisMorse @sapinker

        So in a class with 1 non-white student it'd be ok 4 prof. to "discuss whether whites are superior to non-whites"?

        1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
      5. Mark Smith‏ @CapitanoPimPim 22 Jun 2016
        Replying to @ZombieDiamond @1639ChrisMorse @sapinker

        in the context of a philosophical debate and the use of rhetoric yes it would.

        1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes
      6. Communo-Stalinist‏ @ZombieDiamond 22 Jun 2016
        Replying to @CapitanoPimPim @1639ChrisMorse @sapinker

        Amazing how students dont also get asked to question if whites deserve rights, or straights

        1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
      7. Mark Smith‏ @CapitanoPimPim 22 Jun 2016
        Replying to @ZombieDiamond @1639ChrisMorse @sapinker

        they should but that they do not doesn't invalidate the original point.

        0 replies 0 retweets 1 like
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      1. David Lane‏ @davidlane_22 21 Jun 2016
        Replying to @sapinker

        The "Bias Response Team." Orwell could do no better.

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      2. Nero Harper‏ @NeroHarper 22 Jun 2016
        Replying to @sapinker

        @Markgatiss something that has a valid opposing viewpoint. End of story. They wereright to be investigated. Playing Dev Adv (3)

        1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
      3. Emily J‏ @emilyjgo 22 Jun 2016
        Replying to @NeroHarper

        I think the point was for students to think for themselves & help understand the roots of opposing views & their own beliefs.

        1 reply 0 retweets 4 likes
      4. Nero Harper‏ @NeroHarper 22 Jun 2016
        Replying to @emilyjgo

        Again, someone's gender identity and my own human rights are not up for debate. Never again.

        9 replies 0 retweets 0 likes
      5. David Traynier Ⓥ‏ @DTraynier 22 Jun 2016
        Replying to @NeroHarper

        There's no point in having a generation of kids who can mouth support for 'progressive' causes if they can't defend >@emilyjgo

        0 replies 0 retweets 6 likes
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      1. Brian Hennessy‏ @kabukulator 21 Jun 2016
        Replying to @sapinker

        I wish there was something other than a heart to show my solidarity with this tweet. An eye roll or exasperated sigh icon maybe.

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      2. moveable beast‏ @m0veablebeast 21 Jun 2016
        Replying to @sapinker

        Subject choice was questionable, as was university response

        1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
      3. Timothy Auger‏ @timothy_auger 21 Jun 2016
        Replying to @m0veablebeast @sapinker

        Entirely legitimate topic. Universities are infantilising their students.

        0 replies 0 retweets 1 like
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      2. David Dawson‏ @thedaviddawson 21 Jun 2016
        Replying to @sapinker

        @openculture seriously struggling to see what the utility was of what the professor was trying to do though.

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      1. Tomas Gradin‏ @TomasGradin 21 Jun 2016
        Replying to @sapinker

        @Ivarpi In a few hundred years scholars will discuss when The Enlightenment ended. Here we have the answer.

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      1. Gaythia Weis‏ @GaythiaWeis 22 Jun 2016
        Replying to @sapinker

        Also from Greeley, CO: IMHO, how such situations ought to be handled: http://pandasthumb.org/archives/2011/10/this-is-a-repor.html …

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