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Cognitive scientist at Harvard.

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    Steven Pinker‏Verified account @sapinker 10 Dec 2017

    Today is Human Rights Day, a time to celebrate one of humanity's greatest accomplishments, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (thank you, Eleanor), and to keep up the pressure on tinpot dictators and autocratic thugs.http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=58253#.Wi1QhFf0J4I.twitter …

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      2. Elise "Ronan" , Esq.‏ @EliseRonan 10 Dec 2017
        Replying to @sapinker

        Those tinpot dictators and thugs now head the UN human rights committee. Not certain which alternate universe u live in....

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      1. LERNER‏ @LRNR 10 Dec 2017
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        LERNER Retweeted Hillel Neuer

        https://twitter.com/HillelNeuer/status/939848371094908928 …

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        Hillel NeuerVerified account @HillelNeuer
        Today is @UNHumanRights Day. 1946 UNHRC Chair: Eleanor Roosevelt. 2003 UNHRC Chair: Moammar Qaddafi's Libya. 🇺🇳 Current Members: China Cuba Qatar Burundi Venezuela Saudi Arabia United Arab Emirates 🇺🇳 Joining on Jan. 1: Angola Pakistan Afghanistan Democratic Republic of Congo
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      1. Inus‏ @Inus62163313 10 Dec 2017
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        How can you be so perceptive yet completely cognitively blind to the cultural Marxist agenda that hat has completely intellectually corrupted this institution

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      1. I H‏ @lookingihr 10 Dec 2017
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        Except the loons had taken over the asylum. The tinpot dictators and autocratic thugs are now in control.

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      1. Jean Decety‏ @Decety 10 Dec 2017
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        For a case against human right:https://www.theguardian.com/news/2014/dec/04/-sp-case-against-human-rights …

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      1. Jose-Manuel Barreto‏ @JoseManuelB2013 10 Dec 2017
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        Your wink to Eleanor Roosevelt and the use of this picture betrays a US-centric approach to the origins of the Universal Declaration. What about the history of human rights in the context of the history of colonialism? https://globalsocialtheory.org/topics/human-rights-a-history/ …

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      1. f3rdy‏ @ft1307 10 Dec 2017
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        Talking 'bout american presidents, not.

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      1. Jim Austin‏ @JimAustin45 10 Dec 2017
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        "(K)eep up the pressure on tinpot dictators and autocratic thugs." Pressure? What pressure? Most of the pressure is on democratic nations to emulate tinpot dictators and autocratic thugs.

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      1. MÓNICAGV‏ @MONIGV2 10 Dec 2017
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        En Colombia con Santos no sirven para nada! Más cuando quiere imponer el socialismo abruptamente porque los corruptos, socialistas y altruistas de europa ordenan

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      1. Jose Valle‏ @Jose_Valle 10 Dec 2017
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        It is also Animal Rights Day, proposing that we extend the respect and consideration given between humans also to other animals. That would be another great humanity’s achievement.

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      1. Fred Emmer‏ @firstwheat 10 Dec 2017
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        If one group of humans with power can just declare dignity into existence, what protects our ontological dignity from opposing groups who seek power and feel differently?

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