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    Steven Pinker‏Verified account @sapinker Mar 17

    The New York Times Best Sellers: Enlightenment Now is #4 in nonfiction, up from last week, 4 weeks on the list.http://www.nytimes.com/books/best-sellers/ …

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      2. Pale_Primate‏ @PALE_Primate Mar 19
        Replying to @sapinker

        A debunking of Steven Pinker's disingenuous "Enlightenment Now"http://www.eurocanadian.ca/2018/03/steven-pinkers-anti-enlightenment-attack-white-identitarians_17.html?utm_campaign=shareaholic&utm_medium=twitter&utm_source=socialnetwork …

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      3. Pale_Primate‏ @PALE_Primate Mar 19
        Replying to @PALE_Primate @sapinker

        Good Fences: The Importance of Setting Boundaries for Peaceful Coexistence "Our analysis shows that peace does not depend on integrated coexistence, but rather on well defined topographical and political boundaries separating groups"http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0095660 …

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      4. Pale_Primate‏ @PALE_Primate Mar 19
        Replying to @PALE_Primate @sapinker

        The Evolutionary Dominance of Ethnocentric Cooperation "From a random start, ethnocentric strategies dominate other possible strategies (selfish, traitorous, and humanitarian) based on cooperation or non-cooperation with in-group and out-group agents." http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/16/3/7.html 

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      5. Pale_Primate‏ @PALE_Primate Mar 19
        Replying to @PALE_Primate @sapinker

        No Steve, not all populations can achieve what you call 'enlightenment', and that is due to evolutionary reasons. #Hajnal_Linehttps://hbdchick.wordpress.com/2014/03/10/big-summary-post-on-the-hajnal-line/ …

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      6. Pale_Primate‏ @PALE_Primate Mar 19
        Replying to @PALE_Primate @sapinker

        Core Europe and Human Accomplishmenthttps://hbdchick.wordpress.com/2013/09/23/core-europe-and-human-accomplishment/ …

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      7. Pale_Primate‏ @PALE_Primate Mar 19
        Replying to @PALE_Primate @sapinker

        "One result was that accomplishment has not been uniformly distributed." "He argued that most innovation has been accomplished by men, not women, and Europeans, not other ethnic and cultural groups." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_Accomplishment …

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      8. Pale_Primate‏ @PALE_Primate Mar 19
        Replying to @PALE_Primate @sapinker

        The European Revolutionhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P78Zd8265_k …

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      9. Pale_Primate‏ @PALE_Primate Mar 19
        Replying to @PALE_Primate @sapinker

        "It is dangerous to elevate some sort of philosophy or some sort of set of ideas, because you end up not jealously guarding the most important thing that has ever happened, and that is the genetic change that happened proximity from 1000 AD to 1800 AD in north west Europe"

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      1. Zen Yogi.‏ @tzfpmy Mar 17
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        Fascinatingly researched and eloquently presented

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      1. John Norcali‏ @JohnNorcali Mar 17
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        Well done sir! Your writings are doing a lot of good

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      1. Scott Shapiro‏ @scottjshapiro Mar 17
        Replying to @sapinker

        Congratulations, Steve!

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      2. colin lyons‏ @VdlchJ Mar 17
        Replying to @sapinker

        The brain is just an organ like the liver is an organ but people take credit for ideas that that organ produces But they don’t take credit for the function of the liver lol So who's creating our ideas

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      4. colin lyons‏ @VdlchJ Mar 17
        Replying to @VdlchJ @sapinker

        That logically means everything we •assume• we create with an organ that can only be equal to any other organ, music invention technology scientific concepts, are logically no more than the function of an organ like the liver Stick that in your bong science and schmoke it

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      5. Kirk Mitchell‏ @kirkemitchell Mar 17
        Replying to @VdlchJ @sapinker

        Dunno... your brain appears to be producing some bile.

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      6. colin lyons‏ @VdlchJ Mar 17
        Replying to @kirkemitchell @sapinker

        How can the function of an organ, the brain, that logically cannot be any different than the function of any other organ, be something you claim is yours

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      7. Kirk Mitchell‏ @kirkemitchell Mar 17
        Replying to @VdlchJ @sapinker

        I really didn't spot any logic in your assertion. Or knowledge of human anatomy. Or biology.

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      8. colin lyons‏ @VdlchJ Mar 17
        Replying to @kirkemitchell @sapinker

        Prove it

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      9. colin lyons‏ @VdlchJ Mar 17
        Replying to @VdlchJ @kirkemitchell @sapinker

        Are you stuck ? It’s easy, just explain how the function of an organ is any different than any other organ, when the function of an organ is a biological process

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      1. Mugarura Don‏ @MugaruraD Mar 22
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        #MyCopy in #Uganda 🙏🏽pic.twitter.com/7EH6achk5J

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