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    Steven Pinker‏Verified account @sapinker 17 Sep 2017

    From the White House to Harvard, America’s norms are being shredded http://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/2017/09/15/from-white-house-harvard-america-norms-are-being-shredded/OmenCCt9BpgQ51TJXHgQYP/story.html?event=event25 … via @BostonGlobe

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      1. tpv tragula‏ @tpv_tragula 17 Sep 2017
        Replying to @sapinker @BostonGlobe

        Meh norms have been violated!pic.twitter.com/KDLhlJkFYQ

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      1. Keith Loveland‏ @KeithLoveland1 17 Sep 2017
        Replying to @sapinker @BostonGlobe

        Thank you for bringing this article, and other items, to my attention. I appreciate all that you do for all of us.

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      1. Libertad Lanarke‏ @LibertadLanarke 17 Sep 2017
        Replying to @sapinker @BostonGlobe

        'Legality' has nothing to do with morality. Freeing slaves was illegal for hundreds of years, yet 100% moral. Snowden is a hero. You are not

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      1. tpv tragula‏ @tpv_tragula 17 Sep 2017
        Replying to @sapinker @BostonGlobe

        Violating Norms? You mean, Hillary pay to play, Obama ignoring Wallstreet crimes, Bush wars of aggression? Oh sorry its Trump.

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      1. Bruce Thompson51‏ @BruceThompson51 17 Sep 2017
        Replying to @sapinker @BostonGlobe

        1960s Boomers set it in motion, blame them. They overthrew all those oh-so-oppressive bourgeois norms, brought nothing to replace them with.

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      2. Darren Doesn't Write Much‏ @Darren_B_Lane 17 Sep 2017
        Replying to @sapinker @BostonGlobe

        That's what authoritarian regimes do, right? They grouse to the media? The outrage that a President airs his displeasure publicly. Funny.

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      3. Darren Doesn't Write Much‏ @Darren_B_Lane 17 Sep 2017
        Replying to @Darren_B_Lane @sapinker @BostonGlobe

        I agree it's not normal. Past Presidents appointed loyal "servants", directed them behind closed doors, and ruined them for noncompliance.

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      4. Darren Doesn't Write Much‏ @Darren_B_Lane 17 Sep 2017
        Replying to @Darren_B_Lane @sapinker @BostonGlobe

        Comical to me that the same actions reported on right as signs of impotence are reported on left as diabolically unprecedented overreach.

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      2. Mark S. Novak‏ @Marknovakusa 17 Sep 2017
        Replying to @sapinker @BostonGlobe

        White House has been a horrid example to the nation. Glad I am not a parent having to explain their action to my kid.

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      3. George Benedik‏ @GBenedik 17 Sep 2017
        Replying to @Marknovakusa @sapinker @BostonGlobe

        I am also glad you are not a parent. Or Pinker.

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      4. Mark S. Novak‏ @Marknovakusa 17 Sep 2017
        Replying to @GBenedik @sapinker @BostonGlobe

        You are a #troll. I bet you are the type of person who needs to be sterilized. Come to Dallas, I will pay to have you sterilized.

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      5. George Benedik‏ @GBenedik 17 Sep 2017
        Replying to @Marknovakusa @sapinker @BostonGlobe

        Come to Canada. They do it free for beta snowflakes like you.

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      6. Mark S. Novak‏ @Marknovakusa 17 Sep 2017
        Replying to @GBenedik @sapinker @BostonGlobe

        Wimpy #Trumptrash check. Well white trash, I'm think you are twelve. Bye ...boy.

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      1. George Manka‏ @GeorgeManka 17 Sep 2017
        Replying to @sapinker @BostonGlobe

        I think the facade has just come down, Steven.

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      1. John Champagne‏ @TallPhilosopher 17 Sep 2017
        Replying to @sapinker @BostonGlobe

        "The truth is the best protection against suffering." The norm must be to tell the truth. https://youtu.be/p4obxH2vSms 

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      1. Dr. Ryan McCourt‏ @MarcCountry 17 Sep 2017
        Replying to @sapinker @BostonGlobe

        I wonder if Manning would characterize Cohen's take on the ethics of military whistleblowing here as "naïveté"... https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/July_12,_2007_Baghdad_airstrike …

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      1. Samuel Avery-Quinn‏ @samaveryquinn 17 Sep 2017
        Replying to @sapinker @BostonGlobe

        Broadly-agreed upon norms in US society have been shredded for decades. Trump WH is just a highly visible stage for how shredded they are.

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      1. Randy McGregor‏ @Ramcgreg 17 Sep 2017
        Replying to @sapinker @BostonGlobe

        Amy Wax recently said the same thing, got shredded.

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