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    Steven Pinker‏Verified account @sapinker Feb 15

    My views on identity politics, globalization, free markets, humanism & transhumanism, reason & emotion: http://tws.io/2Ex1D12  via @WeeklyStandard

    8:11 PM - 15 Feb 2018
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      2. Roban Hultman Kramer‏ @robanhk Feb 16
        Replying to @sapinker @posco @weeklystandard

        Oh good, another white male biologist denigrating intellectual disciplines and political movements he hasn’t bothered to study.

        6 replies 1 retweet 5 likes
      3. P. Oscar Boykin‏ @posco Feb 16
        Replying to @robanhk @sapinker @weeklystandard

        Roban, why do you think Steven Pinker hasn't studied them?

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      4. Roban Hultman Kramer‏ @robanhk Feb 16
        Replying to @posco @sapinker @weeklystandard

        From reading his shallow critiques of identify politics and the humanities here and in his Chronicle of Higher Ed piece. It’s true, I don’t know he hasn’t studied, that’s just the most generous interpretation.

        1 reply 0 retweets 3 likes
      5. Roban Hultman Kramer‏ @robanhk Feb 16
        Replying to @robanhk @posco and

        Roban Hultman Kramer Retweeted Thomas Levenson

        https://twitter.com/tomlevenson/status/963915180915789824 …

        Roban Hultman Kramer added,

        Thomas Levenson @TomLevenson
        I've only gotten angrie all day at Pinker's "oh those mean humanities" piece in the CHE. One gall: I actually chased down and read the article on gender and glaciology whose abstract he hippy-punches. It's clear either he didn't read it, or chose to ignore it's actual content.
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      6. Roban Hultman Kramer‏ @robanhk Feb 16
        Replying to @robanhk @posco

        A little humility is called for when criticizing whole fields of study. If you come from outside and find examples of what looks like bad work, I guarantee that either people within the field have already made your point better than you can or you’re misunderstanding the work.

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      2. ⅇ𝕩𝟘𝕕𝕦𝟝‏ @ex0du5_5utu7e Feb 15
        Replying to @sapinker @weeklystandard

        There are models - scientific models - that show how inequality and oppression gets institutionalized in systems. There are feedback loops that persist initial conditions. There is decades of research validating many of these. This is science.

        1 reply 0 retweets 3 likes
      3. ⅇ𝕩𝟘𝕕𝕦𝟝‏ @ex0du5_5utu7e Feb 15
        Replying to @ex0du5_5utu7e @sapinker @weeklystandard

        The particular institutionalized biases and inequalities vary over different kinds. The structures that affect African Americans include prison sentencing inequalities and parental absence heavily. Women face barriers to resume selection and hiring. Again, research is thick.

        1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
      4. ⅇ𝕩𝟘𝕕𝕦𝟝‏ @ex0du5_5utu7e Feb 15
        Replying to @ex0du5_5utu7e @sapinker @weeklystandard

        We know many solutions to these problems, but they are not color-blind or bias-blind. They cannot be because neutral efforts by definition do not resolve the institutional oppressions - the feedback loops of initial conditions. Those only maintain status quo.

        1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes
      5. ⅇ𝕩𝟘𝕕𝕦𝟝‏ @ex0du5_5utu7e Feb 15
        Replying to @ex0du5_5utu7e @sapinker @weeklystandard

        Restorative justice requires a scientific evaluation of health metrics and a plan to alleviate the individual feedback loops faced by various abused groups. We must protect against each abuse. This is what you call identity politics.

        1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes
      6. ⅇ𝕩𝟘𝕕𝕦𝟝‏ @ex0du5_5utu7e Feb 15
        Replying to @ex0du5_5utu7e @sapinker @weeklystandard

        Your stand is how I know you are lost. You are taking an anti-scientific stand here in support of the inequalities fueling the rising white nationalism. You’ve chosen the side of fact avoidance. You show no indication of being familiar with the literature.

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      1. N.G.McClernan‏ @ngmcclernan Feb 16
        Replying to @sapinker @weeklystandard

        "Identity politics" is a response to the original identity politics - the dominance of white men over socio-political-economic systems & the related exclusionary practices. Pinker supports evolutionary psychology, created to justify white male dominance as the natural order.

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      2. Nicholas SCARE-itz  🍞 🌹 🌹‏ @stringquintet Feb 15
        Replying to @sapinker @weeklystandard

        Pinker on identity politics: “I refuse to that people are systematically treated differently in the United States based on inherent aspects of their character or their bodies, despite over 200 years of evidence to the contrary.”

        1 reply 3 retweets 4 likes
      3. Héctor Rodríguez‏ @hctrdz Feb 15
        Replying to @stringquintet @sapinker @weeklystandard

        Apparently you identify with people with deficiencies in their reading comprehension.

        1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
      4. Hillary’s Hot Sauce‏ @purospuercos Feb 15
        Replying to @hctrdz @stringquintet and

        Apparently Pinker isn’t the only guy here who deserves a world class wedgiepic.twitter.com/3y6EwnqxJF

        1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
      5. Héctor Rodríguez‏ @hctrdz Feb 15
        Replying to @purospuercos @stringquintet and

        Those who cannot understand the proper meaning behind that paragraph deserve another chance at education.

        1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
      6. Hillary’s Hot Sauce‏ @purospuercos Feb 16
        Replying to @hctrdz @stringquintet and

        Yup, you deserve a big fucking wedgie lol this paragraph is literally anti factual

        1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
      7. Héctor Rodríguez‏ @hctrdz Feb 16
        Replying to @purospuercos @stringquintet and

        I must confess I don't see how it is counter factual, maybe it's a limitation on my part. Please help me see where it fails your analysis.

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      1. Kinchman‏ @Kinch045 Feb 15
        Replying to @sapinker @vultural @weeklystandard

        This is excellent, thanks.

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      2.  🦉 Wisdomination  🦉‏ @Supreme_Owl_FTW Feb 16
        Replying to @sapinker @weeklystandard

        Identity politics is the opposite of universalism. Universalism is our only hope for peace. Therefore...

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