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ExAmmon
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Date: May 02, 2018 10:48PM
I appreciate your response.
Pinker has eugenicist sympathies has stated that he believes certain ethnic groups have natural intellectual superiority. This should raise a massive red flag!
"In 2005, Steven Pinker, one of the world’s most prominent evolutionary psychologists, began promoting the view that Ashkenazi Jews are innately particularly intelligent
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/mar/02/the-unwelcome-revival-of-race-scienceAlso:
"Enlightenment advances were tied to empire building and the nascent Industrial Revolution, predicated not just on noble ideas and scientific curiosity, but also on slavery, genocide, exploitation and cultural triumphalism."
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-02148-1"That Pinker has managed to get this so spectacularly wrong is not altogether surprising given that he rarely deigns to cite any of the relevant writings...most of the important Enlightenment thinkers receive little or no mention at all in the book."
http://www.abc.net.au/religion/articles/2018/02/20/4806696.htm"What happens when you decide the history, philosophy, and study of science are the same as the war on science so you can dismiss them? You end up writing a book saying the Tuskegee Study was just fine actually.
https://twitter.com/Ian_Mosby/status/968986994079514624"Violent intervention by Western countries in poor countries: good Violent resistance to oppression in poor countries: bad
https://twitter.com/n0nmanifest/status/963833925159346177