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    Steven Pinker‏Verified account @sapinker 30 Oct 2016

    Prof Jordan Peterson persecuted by U Toronto over his argument about pronouns.http://natpo.st/2eZRgFV 

    6:20 PM - 30 Oct 2016
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      2. Todd Snider‏ @ToddTheLinguist 30 Oct 2016
        Replying to @sapinker @nationalpost

        Well, Rex made it almost a whole sentence without condescension (scare quotes around 'self-identify') and a straw man ("archaic & obsolete")

        2 replies 0 retweets 3 likes
      3. Todd Snider‏ @ToddTheLinguist 30 Oct 2016
        Replying to @ToddTheLinguist @sapinker @nationalpost

        Meanwhile other professors who respect their students' identities aren't "real professor"s? ::gags::

        7 replies 0 retweets 7 likes
      4. Davey G‏ @Goldsteinm8ty 30 Oct 2016
        Replying to @ToddTheLinguist @sapinker @nationalpost

        I would say those that go into hysterics when others wont use made up words aren't real "students"

        2 replies 0 retweets 18 likes
      5. Todd Snider‏ @ToddTheLinguist 30 Oct 2016
        Replying to @Goldsteinm8ty @sapinker @nationalpost

        Great. Name a word that isn't made up.

        3 replies 0 retweets 1 like
      6. Davey G‏ @Goldsteinm8ty 30 Oct 2016
        Replying to @ToddTheLinguist @sapinker @nationalpost

        Really, we are playing the semantics game? Got nothing else? Language evolves, it isn't legislated.

        1 reply 0 retweets 12 likes
      7. Todd Snider‏ @ToddTheLinguist 30 Oct 2016
        Replying to @Goldsteinm8ty @sapinker @nationalpost

        a) I am a professional semanticist, yes, thank you. b) Language evolves and isn't legislated, except by Peterson, who decides what are words

        5 replies 0 retweets 3 likes
      8. Davey G‏ @Goldsteinm8ty 30 Oct 2016
        Replying to @ToddTheLinguist @sapinker @nationalpost

        Peterson is only refusing to use others language, not dictating to others what words MUST be used

        0 replies 0 retweets 3 likes
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      2. Ryan Fazio‏ @ryanfazio 31 Oct 2016
        Replying to @sapinker

        @ZeFazhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SiijS_9hPkM …

        1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
      3. Ryan Fazio‏ @ryanfazio 31 Oct 2016
        Replying to @ryanfazio @sapinker @ZeFaz

        -Grandpa,why did China overtake us econ & militarily? -We were too busy programming dozens of new pronouns into our iPhones

        0 replies 1 retweet 9 likes
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      1. Janet Byron Anderson‏ @janetbyronander 30 Oct 2016
        Replying to @sapinker

        And to linguists. We must support Prof Peterson.I wrote to him.Anyone who thinks this oppression will stop with him is delusional.

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      1. Steven P Moore‏ @m00semuss 30 Oct 2016
        Replying to @sapinker

        Coming to a $300 K per year university near you .....

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      1. Forfare Davis‏ @Pseudoplotinus 30 Oct 2016
        Replying to @sapinker

        #PeakCampusJacobinism http://news.nationalpost.com/full-comment/rex-murphy-jordan-peterson-a-real-professor-at-last … @sapinker @nationalpost

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      1. Wodek Szemberg‏ @wodekszemberg 31 Oct 2016
        Replying to @sapinker

        @jordanbpeterson was on @TheAgenda last week to debate his stance on non-trad. pronounshttp://bit.ly/2f1QERX 

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      1. Tony Harrison‏ @HalsAnger 30 Oct 2016
        Replying to @sapinker

        @CHSommers @nationalpost hate to be an academic these days. Fuck doing real work, let's figure out these 2 dozen gender pro-nouns.

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      1. Everything I Disagree With Is Hate Speech‏ @FowlCanuck 30 Oct 2016
        Replying to @sapinker

        @CHSommers remarkable how many idiots in these comments missed the point. It's about PC authoritarianism pervasive on campuses.

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      1. Clyde Bridger‏ @cbridger954 31 Oct 2016
        Replying to @sapinker @nationalpost

        Seriously folks, this political correctness is going too far. Language evolves, but new words can't be legislated!

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      1. Ben Grant‏ @ben9rant 31 Oct 2016
        Replying to @sapinker @nationalpost

        Anyone remember Orwell's "Principles of Newspeak" from the appendix of Nineteen Eighty-Four? http://orwell.ru/library/novels/1984/english/en_app …

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      1. Chris‏ @Audi_4_life 31 Oct 2016
        Replying to @sapinker @nationalpost

        u are either male or female via chromosomes & genitals. if u insist on not identifying as either. Ur pronoun is "it"

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      1. Fred Emmer‏ @firstwheat 31 Oct 2016
        Replying to @sapinker @nationalpost

        Compulsive and coerced political speech on the academy. What could go wrong?

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