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Cognitive scientist at Harvard.

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    Steven Pinker‏Verified account @sapinker 25 Apr 2017

    In NYT, NYU prof defends squelching speech (Should the left be making free speech a right-wing cause?)https://whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com/2017/04/25/nyu-professor-defends-suppressing-some-speech-guess-what-kind/ …

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      1. Geoffrey Miller‏Verified account @primalpoly 25 Apr 2017
        Replying to @sapinker @SteveStuWill

        I can't think of a major post-1968 Leftist who's taken a principled stand for free speech, that's influenced other Leftists to follow suit.

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      1. Amy Alkon‏Verified account @amyalkon 25 Apr 2017
        Replying to @sapinker

        From @Evolutionistrue "What is invalidation to some groups is debate fodder for others." https://whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com/2017/04/25/nyu-professor-defends-suppressing-some-speech-guess-what-kind/ …pic.twitter.com/yWnbDPMtv1

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      1. Peter D. Kramer‏ @PeterDKramer 25 Apr 2017
        Replying to @sapinker

        Remember Marcuse on Repressive Tolerance (1965)? As a young liberal, I disliked the argument then. I dislike it now http://bit.ly/2oHUYIP 

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      1. Jim Austin‏ @JimAustin45 25 Apr 2017
        Replying to @sapinker

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      1. Sean Jason Webb‏ @SeanJasonWebb 25 Apr 2017
        Replying to @sapinker

        My young cousin's girlfriend is finishing 1st yr humanities and already identifies as Marxist while demanding high grades.

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      2. Derek Lowe‏Verified account @Dereklowe 25 Apr 2017
        Replying to @sapinker @curiouswavefn

        Sound advice, and I very much appreciate someone in your position making this case.

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      3. Mutatis Mutandis‏ @MMutandis 25 Apr 2017
        Replying to @Dereklowe @sapinker @curiouswavefn

        Look at the root problem: Invitations to speak issued to people who have nothing of interest to say, purely to score political points.

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      4. Mutatis Mutandis‏ @MMutandis 25 Apr 2017
        Replying to @MMutandis @Dereklowe and

        Freedom of speech, yes. Inviting the Ann Coulter's of this world to speak on campuses as a political scoring game, no. Time to grow up.

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      5. Mutatis Mutandis‏ @MMutandis 25 Apr 2017
        Replying to @MMutandis @Dereklowe and

        Time for American students to be taught that politics is not a bloodsport in which you just support your favourite club, whatever.

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      6. Mutatis Mutandis‏ @MMutandis 25 Apr 2017
        Replying to @MMutandis @Dereklowe and

        If student bodies want to invite right-wing speakers fine. If they can't think of a speaker with intellectual credibility, time to rethink!

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      1. Mike Klymkowsky‏ @mikeklymkowsky 26 Apr 2017
        Replying to @sapinker @SynFutures

        Think Ayaan Hirsi Ali and Brandeis ...

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      1. Charles Trzcinka‏ @ctrzcinka 26 Apr 2017
        Replying to @sapinker

        He's an administrator not a faculty member--which is not surprising given these offensive views.

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      1.  🇳🇱 Terrence Koeman‏ @raphidae 25 Apr 2017
        Replying to @sapinker @Evolutionistrue

        right-wingers say: "yes please". Though it's been a right-wing cause for years already...

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