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    Steven Pinker‏Verified account @sapinker 29 Aug 2017

    More campus madness (& fuel for right wing): Amy Wax attacked as racist etc. for praising self-control, civility,http://bit.ly/2wNpqJW 

    6:47 AM - 29 Aug 2017
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      2. Maquisard de Sade‏ @MrCatullus 29 Aug 2017
        Replying to @sapinker

        Why are you humping this story so hard? It's fuel for the right wing precisely because people like you misinterpret the criticism.

        1 reply 0 retweets 3 likes
      3. Darren Doesn't Write Much‏ @Darren_B_Lane 29 Aug 2017
        Replying to @MrCatullus @sapinker

        Could he be "humping this story so hard" because he wants people to behave civilly and exercise self control? What a crazy motivation.

        3 replies 0 retweets 8 likes
      4. deen-chan‏ @sir_deenicus 29 Aug 2017
        Replying to @Darren_B_Lane @MrCatullus @sapinker

        You think with wages lagging productivity gains, rapid automation and dull future prospects for the poor of all races that self-control...

        1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes
      5. deen-chan‏ @sir_deenicus 29 Aug 2017
        Replying to @sir_deenicus @Darren_B_Lane and

        is really whats at issue here? Humans have a tendency to seek causal explanations and discount survivorship biases & outsized roll of chance

        1 reply 0 retweets 3 likes
      6. Darren Doesn't Write Much‏ @Darren_B_Lane 29 Aug 2017
        Replying to @sir_deenicus @MrCatullus @sapinker

        What's at issue here is if civility and some other similar values are virtuous in any absolute sense or if they are white bourgeois values.

        2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes
      7. deen-chan‏ @sir_deenicus 29 Aug 2017
        Replying to @Darren_B_Lane @MrCatullus @sapinker

        Civility is good but argument's sort of a non-sequitur and out of touch, if one's trying to understand and change the status quo.

        1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
      8. Darren Doesn't Write Much‏ @Darren_B_Lane 29 Aug 2017
        Replying to @sir_deenicus @MrCatullus @sapinker

        The argument (via the OP) is that praising self-control, civility is NOT racist..

        2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes
      9. Darren Doesn't Write Much‏ @Darren_B_Lane 29 Aug 2017
        Replying to @Darren_B_Lane @sir_deenicus and

        The opposing view (via this thread) seems to be that SOME people can't be expected to behave civilly. Who is bigoted in this scenario?

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      2. Rob Schneider‏ @hokirob 29 Aug 2017
        Replying to @sapinker

        Maybe we should just debate the values themselves and decide if they're good ones to encourage, embrace, and teach in American society.pic.twitter.com/e72xLfBrBL

        1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes
      3. Justin Painful Death 🗡 🗡‏ @crashfrog 29 Aug 2017
        Replying to @hokirob @sapinker

        Ok, but like - this is the debate. Wax wrote an op-ed and someone wrote a response. What am i supposed to be angry about?

        1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
      4. Kurzgesagt‏Verified account @Kurz_Gesagt 29 Aug 2017
        Replying to @crashfrog @hokirob @sapinker

        You should read the article. It is not at all about that.

        3 replies 1 retweet 4 likes
      5. Justin Painful Death 🗡 🗡‏ @crashfrog 29 Aug 2017
        Replying to @Kurz_Gesagt @hokirob @sapinker

        The worst thing that has happened here is criticism in print. "Wax will not be silenced" by a student op-ed, wow the courage

        0 replies 0 retweets 1 like
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      2. Patrick Maxwell‏ @winstonobougie 29 Aug 2017
        Replying to @sapinker

        You are forever eager to show the right-wing where the fuel is. Almost like you want them to find it.

        2 replies 0 retweets 3 likes
      3. DarkEmper0r‏ @DarkEmper0r 29 Aug 2017
        Replying to @winstonobougie @sapinker

        There must be balance in force my young padawan.https://www.city-journal.org/html/real-war-science-14782.html …

        0 replies 0 retweets 4 likes
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      1. Turbotab‏ @TwinTurboTab 29 Aug 2017
        Replying to @sapinker

        Conflating race and culture is the most stupid and dangerous thing the Far-left has done so far, can they not see where that will end??

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      1. Elblanc0‏ @el_blanc0 1 Sep 2017
        Replying to @sapinker

        Why is the National Review the source you chose to quote?

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      2. Bart Crisp‏ @crispy_bart 29 Aug 2017
        Replying to @sapinker

        This "fuel for right wing" argument is a can of worms I suggest people stop opening up. If it's wrong it's wrong, what GOP thinks irrelevant

        1 reply 0 retweets 6 likes
      3. Maquisard de Sade‏ @MrCatullus 29 Aug 2017
        Replying to @crispy_bart @sapinker

        It's not wrong. Pinker is buying the right wing spin that those values were benign and weren't used as basis for perpetuating racism.

        2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes
      4. Bart Crisp‏ @crispy_bart 29 Aug 2017
        Replying to @MrCatullus @sapinker

        IF it's wrong, I said. There's lots to unpick in the Tweet but "stop doing this, the right like it" is inverse Trumpian logic, ergo bad

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      1. 4satin2‏ @lousalomehh 29 Aug 2017
        Replying to @sapinker

        1968 overthrew a paradigm but did not propose another viable (or it was not viable without a bunch of consciouness and responsability)

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