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    Steven Pinker‏Verified account @sapinker 21 Jul 2017

    The Left continues its slow suicide by intolerance, emboldening the right: Richard Dawkins deplatformed in Berkeley.https://goo.gl/Ey12K7 

    2:35 PM - 21 Jul 2017
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      2.  👻We 💀Live 👺In 👾A 🕸Nightmare 🎃Dystopia 👻‏ @Parsimmon 21 Jul 2017
        Replying to @sapinker

        I love your books and I have defended you from all comers left and right, but this is stupid.

        4 replies 1 retweet 71 likes
      3.  👻We 💀Live 👺In 👾A 🕸Nightmare 🎃Dystopia 👻‏ @Parsimmon 21 Jul 2017
        Replying to @Parsimmon @sapinker

        Dawkins was a great biologist, but he has become obsessed with irrational and unscientific ideas about race and religion.

        26 replies 10 retweets 103 likes
      4.  👻We 💀Live 👺In 👾A 🕸Nightmare 🎃Dystopia 👻‏ @Parsimmon 21 Jul 2017
        Replying to @Parsimmon @sapinker

        A radio station not wanting to host his bullshit is the epitome of free speech and responsible journalism.

        18 replies 3 retweets 93 likes
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      2. Huffy‏ @Huffalot 21 Jul 2017
        Replying to @sapinker @Tom4Jones

        Dawkins is an extremist. He believes so hard in science he has forgotten that it's all theory in need of constant testing.

        6 replies 1 retweet 10 likes
      3. G Willikers‏ @Rynodaug 21 Jul 2017
        Replying to @Huffalot @sapinker @Tom4Jones

        This comment makes zero sense. How can one "believe so hard in science" while simultaneously disregarding the scientific method?

        1 reply 1 retweet 53 likes
      4. Huffy‏ @Huffalot 21 Jul 2017
        Replying to @Rynodaug @sapinker @Tom4Jones

        That was my point. Dawkins seems to hold scientific hypotheses as Facts.

        3 replies 2 retweets 6 likes
      5. TomBB‏ @Tom4Jones 21 Jul 2017
        Replying to @Huffalot @Rynodaug @sapinker

        Evidence?

        1 reply 0 retweets 10 likes
      6. Huffy‏ @Huffalot 22 Jul 2017
        Replying to @Tom4Jones @Rynodaug @sapinker

        https://richarddawkins.net/2015/11/is-it-a-theory-is-it-a-law-no-its-a-fact/ …

        1 reply 0 retweets 5 likes
      7. TomBB‏ @Tom4Jones 22 Jul 2017
        Replying to @Huffalot @Rynodaug @sapinker

        You've misunderstood that Huffy. Evolution is a fact not a theory. Unless you don't believe in evolution.

        3 replies 0 retweets 17 likes
      8. Huffy‏ @Huffalot 22 Jul 2017
        Replying to @Tom4Jones @Rynodaug @sapinker

        I don't believe in it. I hold it as a beautiful Theory that explains & is supported by empirical evidence.

        6 replies 0 retweets 9 likes
      9. Huffy‏ @Huffalot 22 Jul 2017
        Replying to @Huffalot @Tom4Jones and

        A belief requires you to have a faith in that belief. If you have to have faith isn't it a religion?

        4 replies 0 retweets 7 likes
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      2. newplaces‏ @prodbyexplvcit 21 Jul 2017
        Replying to @sapinker

        > we support free speech > we don't support hurtful speech Pick one

        14 replies 6 retweets 105 likes
      3. Chrissy‏ @Chrissygoodlife 21 Jul 2017
        Replying to @prodbyexplvcit @sapinker

        Free speech will always hurt someone, its the nature of free speech

        1 reply 10 retweets 100 likes
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      2. Spider Joe‏ @JosephTLapp 21 Jul 2017
        Replying to @sapinker

        Dawkins himself emboldens the right by telling everyone that Islam is indeed the problem. Religion has only ever been an excuse.

        16 replies 3 retweets 56 likes
      3. stucal‏ @stucalion 21 Jul 2017
        Replying to @JosephTLapp @sapinker

        Religion takes a large share of blame but not all. Definitely not zero. We need to be honest about it.

        2 replies 3 retweets 40 likes
      4. Sir Lasher de Tabarnia‏ @state_lasher 21 Jul 2017
        Replying to @stucalion @JosephTLapp @sapinker

        Are you sure? Then how can you explain 1700 yr of jihad? Have you read what they have to say about why they hate us?

        8 replies 1 retweet 18 likes
      5. stucal‏ @stucalion 21 Jul 2017
        Replying to @state_lasher @JosephTLapp @sapinker

        Very sure.Have you read US/West clusterfuck in MidEast? Iraq wars+mishandling birthing isis? Destroying democracy in iran?Pick a country..

        7 replies 2 retweets 32 likes
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      7. stucal‏ @stucalion 21 Jul 2017
        Replying to @BrentJ_ @state_lasher and

        What a silly argument and false comparison.Most nations didn't invade Iraq twice or prop up http://dictators.How  many troops still there

        2 replies 0 retweets 7 likes
      8. Danny S‏ @danstapo 22 Jul 2017
        Replying to @stucalion @BrentJ_ and

        Stucalion - Can you tell me which countries the Philippines has invaded?

        1 reply 0 retweets 6 likes
      9. stucal‏ @stucalion 22 Jul 2017
        Replying to @danstapo @BrentJ_ and

        Wtf are you talking about try reading the thread. Then read about Wahhabism and why it spread

        1 reply 0 retweets 3 likes
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