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    Steven Pinker‏Verified account @sapinker 5 Oct 2017

    If the elites go down, we’re all in trouble http://www.bostonglobe.com/magazine/2017/10/05/elites-down-all-trouble/TSyELMq0d5a9At0oPRhXEP/story.html?event=event25 … via @BostonGlobe

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      2. Katimir Lenin‏ @metallichuck 5 Oct 2017
        Replying to @sapinker @BostonGlobe

        Pretty sure we're fine without parasites at the top.

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      3. Katimir Lenin‏ @metallichuck 5 Oct 2017
        Replying to @metallichuck @sapinker @BostonGlobe

        By parasites I mean capitalists and their politicians.

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      4.  ❌ShadowBanned Deplorable‏ @TerrificTom777 5 Oct 2017
        Replying to @metallichuck @sapinker @BostonGlobe

        By Capitalists you mean people who start & run businesses that hire everyone else & pay them wages, right? No poor man ever gave me a job.

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      1.  ❌ShadowBanned Deplorable‏ @TerrificTom777 5 Oct 2017
        Replying to @sapinker @BostonGlobe

        How utterly lacking in personal insight the elitist Leftist is! It borders on self-parody. Surely they can't mean what they say they mean?

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      2. Isabel‏ @chinija71 6 Oct 2017
        Replying to @sapinker @BostonGlobe

        Quoting R Dawkins, we all want elite pilots to flight us, elite surgeons to cut us open and, of course, elite people to rule our countries.

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      3. Isabel‏ @chinija71 6 Oct 2017
        Replying to @chinija71 @sapinker @BostonGlobe

        I totally agree. However, I do not like the word "elite" because of it connotations. What about "competent", " wise", "smart"...?

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      4. Isabel‏ @chinija71 6 Oct 2017
        Replying to @chinija71 @sapinker @BostonGlobe

        Educated, proficient, skilled, highly-capable, qualified...

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      1. Joe McCullagh‏ @JM_True_Process 6 Oct 2017
        Replying to @sapinker @BostonGlobe

        If? Game over elites/educated.. Trump, bump-stocks, unchecked capitalism, predatory journals. etc. We're a world of non-critical thinkers.

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      1. Scott La-Scream‏ @thinkyhead 5 Oct 2017
        Replying to @sapinker @BostonGlobe

        In my experience the specific "elites" targeted by the RW are scapegoat cultural icons rather than the economic elites who undermine the US.

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      2. jeffhack‏ @PorscheJeff 5 Oct 2017
        Replying to @sapinker @BostonGlobe

        my god, did anyone actually finish reading this thing?

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      3. David J Foster‏ @djf137 5 Oct 2017
        Replying to @PorscheJeff @sapinker @BostonGlobe

        Their final conclusion might be right, but I couldn't handle the self-flattery to get there.

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      4. Tibo‏ @TiboDMZ 5 Oct 2017
        Replying to @djf137 @PorscheJeff and

        The problem is cultural. WASP tied to people through christianity. Today elites have their own culture and justify authority on superiority.

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      5. jeffhack‏ @PorscheJeff 5 Oct 2017
        Replying to @TiboDMZ @djf137 and

        what do we even mean by "elite"? rich people? powerful people? educated people? if it's just rich and powerful, this is meaningless.

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      1. Krème de la Krèmlin‏ @ztarasj 6 Oct 2017
        Replying to @sapinker @BostonGlobe

        Considering that the elites are the reason we're in this mess (Iraq war, deregulation, financialization of economy), I say fuck 'em.

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      1. Christopher‏ @Christo36378468 6 Oct 2017
        Replying to @sapinker @BostonGlobe

        This article ignores: it has been the left, entrenched in educ instittns, that slowly chipped away respect for hierarchy, civility & truth

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      1. Maikeru‏ @DiverMike69 6 Oct 2017
        Replying to @sapinker @BostonGlobe

        Has anyone ever seen Professor Pinker and Sir Simon Rattle in the same room? I think we should be told...

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      1. Urbanski ❌‏ @KasimirUrbanski 5 Oct 2017
        Replying to @sapinker @BostonGlobe

        Elites & experts are not the same thing. To understand you have to go back to Jeffersonian class warfare. Productive Class vs Parasites.

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