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    Steven Pinker‏Verified account @sapinker 2 Sep 2017

    Amy Wax was right on bourgeois values, but that's not the point: In a univ., she shouldn't be slandered & bullied.https://heterodoxacademy.org/?p=7895 

    3:59 PM - 2 Sep 2017
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    • tilly swanson No Pigs Rune Westphal James Lindsay Heterodox Academy wergrgwwgw Samuel Shaw Ben Voris Son of Enoch Powell
    42 replies 255 retweets 627 likes
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      2. James Ladwig‏ @jgladwig 2 Sep 2017
        Replying to @sapinker

        Actually, she's wrong re bourgeois values, but she is entirely correct to try to make the case.

        1 reply 1 retweet 13 likes
      3. Elblanc0‏ @el_blanc0 2 Sep 2017
        Replying to @jgladwig @sapinker

        And those that disagree are entirely correct in publicly responding to her.

        3 replies 0 retweets 3 likes
      4. Arnt Furunes‏ @Dahlspils 2 Sep 2017
        Replying to @el_blanc0 @jgladwig @sapinker

        Yes, if only they'd made an argument and not a denouncement. All academia suffers from this tendency towards ideological censure.

        4 replies 0 retweets 12 likes
      5. Elblanc0‏ @el_blanc0 2 Sep 2017
        Replying to @Dahlspils @jgladwig @sapinker

        And Pinker fell right into it.

        1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes
      6. Arnt Furunes‏ @Dahlspils 2 Sep 2017
        Replying to @el_blanc0 @jgladwig @sapinker

        Er, no.

        1 reply 0 retweets 6 likes
      7. Elblanc0‏ @el_blanc0 2 Sep 2017
        Replying to @Dahlspils @jgladwig @sapinker

        Your words, not mine. Besides, hero worship is unhealthy.

        1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
      8. Arnt Furunes‏ @Dahlspils 3 Sep 2017
        Replying to @el_blanc0 @jgladwig @sapinker

        Agreed. Especially when they lead to cultural revolutions and purges.

        1 reply 0 retweets 7 likes
      9. James Ladwig‏ @jgladwig 3 Sep 2017
        Replying to @Dahlspils @el_blanc0 @sapinker

        To me the mistakes began as soon as anyone took the W & A piece as being remutely related to scholarship. Happy to make that case.

        0 replies 0 retweets 3 likes
      10. End of conversation
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      2. Geoffrey Miller‏Verified account @primalpoly 3 Sep 2017
        Replying to @sapinker

        Of those 33 law profs denouncing Wax, are any teaching their own kids the exact opposite of her 'bourgeois virtues'? If not, why not?

        2 replies 3 retweets 30 likes
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      2. Hellalujah‏ @Hellalujah_7 2 Sep 2017
        Replying to @sapinker

        No — Amy Wax is peddling *Family* Values, rebranded with a new name in the hope that you won’t notice.

        2 replies 0 retweets 3 likes
      3. Alex Katz  🌭‏ @Alex__Katz 2 Sep 2017
        Replying to @Hellalujah_7 @sapinker

        What's wrong with family values?

        0 replies 1 retweet 6 likes
      4. End of conversation
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      2. Elblanc0‏ @el_blanc0 2 Sep 2017
        Replying to @sapinker @SamHarrisOrg

        Why would you retweet this, Sam? You debate controversial opinions on your podcast. Isn't debate healthy? Pinker wants to quiet students.

        1 reply 1 retweet 2 likes
      3. "No Shit" Sherlock‏ @PunishmentHurts 2 Sep 2017
        Replying to @el_blanc0 @sapinker @SamHarrisOrg

        not really lookin' for an answer, are ya? (cuz I got one...)

        0 replies 1 retweet 2 likes
      4. End of conversation
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      2. Pamela Paresky‏ @PamelaParesky 2 Sep 2017
        Replying to @sapinker

        Exactly. Universities should be places for dialectic, not "You're wrong so I must condemn you - and if I don't, I'm part of the problem!"

        1 reply 0 retweets 13 likes
      3. Monty‏ @Monty_Marmion 2 Sep 2017
        Replying to @PamelaParesky @sapinker

        It's more, "I condemn you, so you must be bad." The question of truth rarely comes up.

        0 replies 0 retweets 2 likes
      4. End of conversation
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      2. Elblanc0‏ @el_blanc0 2 Sep 2017
        Replying to @sapinker

        How was she slandered or bullied? Her argument was attacked. If you want to make a controversial claim, be ready for the consequences.

        3 replies 0 retweets 3 likes
      3. Elblanc0‏ @el_blanc0 2 Sep 2017
        Replying to @el_blanc0 @sapinker

        Ignoring the fact that her argument with simplistic and sophomoric, Free Speech works when both sides are allowed to speak.

        2 replies 0 retweets 1 like
      4. Asa Ingerson‏ @Asaaaa 3 Sep 2017
        Replying to @el_blanc0 @sapinker

        her argument wasn't attacked, she was. She was "denounced" with a bunch of buzzwords. That's not debate.

        0 replies 0 retweets 4 likes
      5. End of conversation
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      2. Billy Braden‏ @bbraden98 2 Sep 2017
        Replying to @sapinker @HdxAcademy

        she is 99% dead fucking wrong and that's partially the point (but she shouldn't be bullied) #BothSides

        1 reply 1 retweet 3 likes
      3. DrKTSpin‏ @DrKTSpinweb 2 Sep 2017
        Replying to @bbraden98 @sapinker @HdxAcademy

        What is she wrong about?

        1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
      4. Billy Braden‏ @bbraden98 2 Sep 2017
        Replying to @DrKTSpinweb @sapinker @HdxAcademy

        breakdown of bourgeois values not cause of societal decline but symptom of it: cause is decades of conservativism/neoliberalism

        0 replies 0 retweets 1 like
      5. End of conversation

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