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    Steven Pinker‏Verified account @sapinker Jan 18

    A Modest Immigration Proposal: Ban Jews [Note to irony-impaired: this isn’t meant literally]https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/18/opinion/jews-immigration-america.html …

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      1. Jack Glaser‏ @JackGlaserPhD Jan 18
        Replying to @sapinker

        The number of Trump supporters this argument will sway is approximately zero.

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      1. Sohan Dsouza‏ @SohanDsouza Jan 18
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        pic.twitter.com/YpMgmvQI7a

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      1. Spencer Mermelstein‏ @sjmermelstein Jan 18
        Replying to @sapinker

        There is an inaccuracy, the Jewish atomic spies in the 1950s (e.g. Rosenbergs) did NOT do "incalculable" damage to the US. They provided the USSR with nothing new.

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      1.  🎃  🍸clean shaven Gritty  🍸  🎃‏ @vodkasnowflake Jan 18
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        why

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      2. Sue G-Vaughn‏ @piguanaSue Jan 18
        Replying to @sapinker

        If the recent Trumpist editorials and Nazi-sympathizing stories of the @nytimes are anything to go by, this might not be ironic!

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      3. James Violent 🏏 🇬🇧‏ @Violent__Vegan Jan 19
        Replying to @piguanaSue @sapinker @nytimes

        I agree. It's coming from the quaint standpoint that the concluding premise is absurd. I think that train has left the station already.

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      1. Marl Karx‏ @FedoraMarxist Jan 19
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        aka the reverse Israel immigration policy

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      1. Jack Butler‏ @jackrbutle Jan 18
        Replying to @sapinker

        No mention of the boatloads of Jewish refugees we turned away during nazi Germany . Still a good article

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      1. Eric McIntyre‏ @Bearded_Spock Jan 18
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        Yes two of my favorite writers, @sapinker and @BretStephensNYT, are teaming up! You guys should do some events together!

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      1. kata‏ @cata_bgd Jan 18
        Replying to @sapinker

        oh you want to go there? the article suggests that some notable negatives from jewish immigration were more than compensated for by jewish creativity and intelligence. it is not at all obvious that the same calculus obtains for every ethnic group.

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      1. Mads Mathiesen‏ @TheAmazingMaze Jan 18
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        Are we just gonna ignore the fact that ashkenazi jews have the highest IQ and people from Haiti, Somalia, and other shithole-countries are hovering somewhere around 70? I remember you saying "When you neglect certain truths because of PC, people will turn to the alt-right"

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      1.  🇳🇱Jeroen 'It’s slowly getting better' Poels‏ @jerommeke1701 Jan 18
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        Irony-impaired. Now that’s a brilliant addition to my vocabulary

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