Post AdLg0MY1qSnsc9vtGy by hannu_ikonen@med-mastodon.com
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 (DIR) Post #AdLbqYw8WsfsKEHRiK by Wolven@ourislandgeorgia.net
       2023-12-30T21:27:25Z
       
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       Reminder of my Edible Temperature Take: Both Steven Pinker and Peter Singer bear large amounts of direct responsibility for the worst turns in contemporary western culture— especially concerning the popular understanding of ethics and society— and should be ostracized from the canon and public intellectualism as a whole 👍🏾Pinker's beliefs as regards the lived experience of power, oppression, and the social construction of both criminality and suffering excuse the powerful and blame the oppressed. He's largely responsible for the prejudicial stereotype of autistic people as "robotic." He did a large amount of work to rehabilitate Charles Murray in the public view. And he aided Jeffery Epstein's legal defense.Peter Singer has straight-up advocated for eugenics and the understanding of disabled life as one of inherent suffering and thus less valuable as recently as this year.Do not heed them. Do not center them. Remove them from your work as much as possible.
       
 (DIR) Post #AdLelsHPU5tejPgf0y by andrei_chiffa@mastodon.social
       2023-12-30T21:59:44Z
       
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       @Wolven If you are in the mood for it, there is a superbly written intellectual takedown of most of Pinker's pseudo-evolutionary work by Allen H. Orr - one of the most competent and articulate evolutionary biologists I know -  from 2003: https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2003/02/27/darwinian-storytelling/(there is also a follow-up where Pinker asked for more and got served)
       
 (DIR) Post #AdLfjfglQVoP3X3kh6 by Wolven@ourislandgeorgia.net
       2023-12-30T22:10:43Z
       
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       @andrei_chiffa Thanks for that~!
       
 (DIR) Post #AdLg0MY1qSnsc9vtGy by hannu_ikonen@med-mastodon.com
       2023-12-30T22:13:58Z
       
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       @Wolven @andrei_chiffa https://web.archive.org/web/20030223013513/www.nybooks.com/articles/16074Never thought id see this again but yes this ended Pinker amongst those who could see past his bullshit. Nail in the coffin level stuff.
       
 (DIR) Post #AdLoGXYhTSbd1xTJWC by soycamo@famichiki.jp
       2023-12-30T23:46:32Z
       
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       @Wolven I remember reading Pinker's work in school (20 years ago), trying to figure out why anyone cared about his mediocre work. I didn't realize how far his reach went 😬
       
 (DIR) Post #AdMrudvBjOAhMslRya by lance@mastodon.social
       2023-12-31T12:01:05Z
       
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       @Wolven My introduction to Pinker was his complaint that Colin McGinn was punished for "nothing more serious than exchanging sexual banter with a graduate student". The guy thinks sexual harassment is acceptable.https://web.archive.org/web/20130629090144/http://mcginn.philospot.com/index.php?story=story130620-193840
       
 (DIR) Post #AdNHV6wXnsdoemsuWG by callisto@disabled.social
       2023-12-31T16:48:49Z
       
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       @Wolven Ew. I'm not given to destroying books, but I have one or two of Pinker's on my shelves, and I really feel like taking them out to the backyard and burning them. :-/