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Cognitive scientist at Harvard.

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pinker.wjh.harvard.edu
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    Steven Pinker‏Verified account @sapinker 8 Aug 2017

    Red meat for those who say PC is biggest threat to free thought--makes job of anti-Trumpists harder http://www.bostonglobe.com/business/2017/08/07/google-fires-employee-who-wrote-memo-about-women-technology-jobs/U8tL4oYksGg6U8XV6vSnFN/story.html?event=event25 … via @BostonGlobe

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      2. "No Shit" Sherlock‏ @PunishmentHurts 8 Aug 2017
        Replying to @sapinker @BostonGlobe

        "makes job of anti-Trumpists harder?" Sound like "Affirmative Action makes whites more racist."

        7 replies 4 retweets 68 likes
      3. Elblanc0‏ @el_blanc0 8 Aug 2017
        Replying to @PunishmentHurts @sapinker @BostonGlobe

        Exactly! He's standing on the side of pseudoscience and discrimination. How did he get there?

        3 replies 2 retweets 15 likes
      4. "No Shit" Sherlock‏ @PunishmentHurts 8 Aug 2017
        Replying to @el_blanc0 @sapinker @BostonGlobe

        my guess, it's the progression of being against the Blank Slate, a polarizing...I dunno. It so looks like psych=Left and science=Right.

        3 replies 0 retweets 3 likes
      5. Elblanc0‏ @el_blanc0 8 Aug 2017
        Replying to @PunishmentHurts @sapinker @BostonGlobe

        It's like he's so wrapped up in his own ideology that he's starting to cherry-pick scientific research. It's like he's protecting his brand.

        2 replies 1 retweet 11 likes
      6. "No Shit" Sherlock‏ @PunishmentHurts 8 Aug 2017
        Replying to @el_blanc0 @sapinker @BostonGlobe

        watched the Einstein series and that seems to be it: write your brilliance when you're young and spend the rest of your days tryna sell it

        5 replies 0 retweets 7 likes
      7. "No Shit" Sherlock‏ @PunishmentHurts 8 Aug 2017
        Replying to @PunishmentHurts @el_blanc0 and

        ah! Meanwhile the need you saw goes out of style: good atheism becomes Islamophobia, like that . . . interesting

        1 reply 0 retweets 4 likes
      8. Elblanc0‏ @el_blanc0 8 Aug 2017
        Replying to @PunishmentHurts @sapinker @BostonGlobe

        Pinker staked a claim that biological gender differences are somehow behaviorally meaningful. But the research has not played that out.

        6 replies 1 retweet 9 likes
      9. "No Shit" Sherlock‏ @PunishmentHurts 8 Aug 2017
        Replying to @el_blanc0 @sapinker @BostonGlobe

        stated that way, I'd have to say, undeniable. Of course the trouble's all in the "somehow" bit, isn't it?

        1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
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      2. Eoin Dooley‏ @eoin_dooley 8 Aug 2017
        Replying to @sapinker @BostonGlobe

        How can you say that the people you work with are incompetent and only there because of political correctness and expect to work with them?

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      4. Eoin Dooley‏ @eoin_dooley 8 Aug 2017
        Replying to @Munkhaus @sapinker @BostonGlobe

        He discussed sex differences as the fundamental reason as to why women are unsuited to working in tech.

        2 replies 0 retweets 2 likes
      5. Eoin Dooley‏ @eoin_dooley 8 Aug 2017
        Replying to @eoin_dooley @Munkhaus and

        Additionally, argued that policies to increase diversity in Google ignore that supposed lack of affinity to appease political correctness.

        1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes
      6. Eoin Dooley‏ @eoin_dooley 8 Aug 2017
        Replying to @eoin_dooley @Munkhaus and

        If I'm beside someone at work who's writing about how I am biologically inferior at the job we're both doing, why would I work with the ass?

        4 replies 0 retweets 2 likes
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      2. "No Shit" Sherlock‏ @PunishmentHurts 8 Aug 2017
        Replying to @sapinker @BostonGlobe

        Jesus, Steve, I've bought, like four of your books. THIS is where you come down on this? Blank Slate sure, but this? Shake your head.

        2 replies 0 retweets 7 likes
      3. Elblanc0‏ @el_blanc0 8 Aug 2017
        Replying to @PunishmentHurts @sapinker @BostonGlobe

        He's been doing this for a few years now. He's tainting his intellectual Legacy as a result.

        1 reply 1 retweet 1 like
      4. "No Shit" Sherlock‏ @PunishmentHurts 8 Aug 2017
        Replying to @el_blanc0 @sapinker @BostonGlobe

        conservatism is an affliction of the old

        0 replies 1 retweet 2 likes
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      1. AlfieVille‏ @AlfieVille 8 Aug 2017
        Replying to @sapinker @BostonGlobe

        I hope the guy is sent to a thought reconditioning gulag for the full brainwashing programme. How dare he have an opinion. How dare he.

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      1. JoAnn Welsh‏ @josephinesay 8 Aug 2017
        Replying to @sapinker @BostonGlobe

        You're perpetuating the PC myth yourself here--Google doesn't have to be open to sexism and racism to prove they're open to diff views.

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