I can only confidently guarantee that the prostitute you end up making tender love to (lol) will shower longer than she usually does after your 5 shameful minutes of disappointing her
Steven Pinker is basically a pseudo intellectual, psychologist and linguist, and popular science "author".
He's pretty much a shitty cosmopolitan elitist that likes writing about "how everything is getting better", which is fuel to both the far left and right.
Seriouspost: just finished his book on violence and loved it and am curious what's wrong with it.
In his defense: No, it's not a scientifically rigorous work, but it's not intended for that purpose. It's not an academic study, and some small details might be wrong. But even with some wrong details, "violence has declined" is a "sky is blue" tier statement. The real value of the book is in its power to convince you of this very thoroughly.
Seriouspost: just finished his book on violence and loved it and am curious what's wrong with it.
In his defense: No, it's not a scientifically rigorous work, but it's not intended for that purpose. It's not an academic study, and some small details might be wrong. But even with some wrong details, "violence has declined" is a "sky is blue" tier statement. The real value of the book is in its power to convince you of this very thoroughly, not to be perfectly accurate cause that's for autists
The guy might be an obnoxious cunt IRL or something but I really loved that book tbh so lmk what's so bad about the dude or his books
Robinson authoring an article with that title surely opened up a rift within the space-irony continuum that split our reality from the prime reality. It explains a lot.
I don't see how he's a threat to centrism - doesn't he boost it?
He collected a tonne of data on violence and general societal badness and showed that the world's is generally getting better, not worse. That's something extremists hate to hear because they need you to believe that the sky is about to collapse.
Leftists hate him because he showed rape has gone down and is much less common today, and that there's a massive hysteria surrounding it and it's alleged causes (like "rape is about power not sex." Which was accepted uncritically in academic circles despite there being no evidence for it). Too he showed that non-state societies are far more violent than state societies. Leftists hate hearing this because "muh noble peaceful savages."
I guess rightists might hate him because he showed that violent crime and homicide are also down too.
Leftists hate him because he showed rape has gone down and is much less common today, and that there's a massive hysteria surrounding it and it's alleged causes (like "rape is about power not sex." Which was accepted uncritically in academic circles despite there being no evidence for it). Too he showed that non-state societies are far more violent than state societies. Leftists hate hearing this because "muh noble peaceful savages."
The people in the replies complaining about cancel culture are the real warriors. He's not getting heat for saying the n word in 1978, he's implicated in a global pedophile ring that raped children on a private island lmao
Harvard psychologist Steven Pinker is that guy. He thinks many people are very unreasonable, and makes sweeping claims about their irrationality and moral imbecility, but often doesn’t bother to listen to what they actually say. While insisting for page upon page on the necessity of rationality, he irrationally caricatures and mocks ideas he hasn’t tried to understand. Then, when the people who believe those ideas become upset, he sees this as further proof of their emotion-driven thinking, and becomes even more convinced that he is right.
Then, when the people who believe those ideas become upset, he sees this as further proof of their emotion-driven thinking, and becomes even more convinced that he is right.
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1 SnapshillBot 2019-07-13
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1 Chomsky_Minaj 2019-07-13
Good. Pinker is the biggest threat to radical centrism.
1 DrunkDeity 2019-07-13
Imagine if he get's investigated. I wonder how many people Epstein will try to take down with him.
1 smokeyphil 2019-07-13
Ideally all of them and then some extras that had nothing to do with it for the lulz.
1 Slump_o 2019-07-13
LiterallyWhoPill me on this guy and why he hates centrists.
1 Chomsky_Minaj 2019-07-13
The guy people will think you like if you say you’re a radical centrist.
1 DrunkDeity 2019-07-13
Steven Pinker is basically a pseudo intellectual, psychologist and linguist, and popular science "author". He's pretty much a shitty cosmopolitan elitist that likes writing about "how everything is getting better", which is fuel to both the far left and right.
1 freet0 2019-07-13
Extremists outraged at man who says things aren't that bad
1 the_marx 2019-07-13
smart people annoyed by man who acts like a retard
1 freet0 2019-07-13
don't bring your personal problems into this
1 AugustinesBitchBoy 2019-07-13
This but ironically
1 Plzbpatienthavetism 2019-07-13
We're annoyed by you but I wouldn't call us smart
1 TheLordHighExecu 2019-07-13
whut
1 ClinicalGazesUrBulge 2019-07-13
Seriouspost: just finished his book on violence and loved it and am curious what's wrong with it.
In his defense: No, it's not a scientifically rigorous work, but it's not intended for that purpose. It's not an academic study, and some small details might be wrong. But even with some wrong details, "violence has declined" is a "sky is blue" tier statement. The real value of the book is in its power to convince you of this very thoroughly.
1 Hobbesian_Tackle 2019-07-13
Would you say he is Malcolm Gladwell adjacent?
1 impatienthalima 2019-07-13
He's nothing like Malcolm Gladwell
1 watermark002 2019-07-13
Gladwell is worse
1 preserved_fish 2019-07-13
Gladwell is the dude who wrote a hasty book report on one of Pinker's book he didn't read.
Pinker is a little annoying, but he's several orders of magnitude less bad than Gladwell
1 TheLordHighExecu 2019-07-13
If anyone ever calls me that, I will shoot him and then myself
1 Hobbesian_Tackle 2019-07-13
How about Chuck Klosterman perpendicular?
1 TheLordHighExecu 2019-07-13
You submit opinion articles to the New York Times
1 9171fffff05bskloti92 2019-07-13
mod him
1 ClinicalGazesUrBulge 2019-07-13
Seriouspost: just finished his book on violence and loved it and am curious what's wrong with it.
In his defense: No, it's not a scientifically rigorous work, but it's not intended for that purpose. It's not an academic study, and some small details might be wrong. But even with some wrong details, "violence has declined" is a "sky is blue" tier statement. The real value of the book is in its power to convince you of this very thoroughly, not to be perfectly accurate cause that's for autists
The guy might be an obnoxious cunt IRL or something but I really loved that book tbh so lmk what's so bad about the dude or his books
1 clairmint 2019-07-13
The World's Most Annoying Man
tl;dr he's the reddit of intellectuals
1 NormanImmanuel 2019-07-13
>Current Affairs
Robinson is a contender for that title, himself.
1 DeweaponizedAutism 2019-07-13
Lol he sounds huffy as fuck in that article. So mad lmao
1 SideFumbling 2019-07-13
Imagine writing a multi-page cope because somebody said your leftoid politics are retarded and irrational, thereby proving them exactly correct.
1 AlecOzzyHillPitas 2019-07-13
Robinson authoring an article with that title surely opened up a rift within the space-irony continuum that split our reality from the prime reality. It explains a lot.
1 watermark002 2019-07-13
That's long
1 preserved_fish 2019-07-13
Why do you read that garbo rag?
1 impatienthalima 2019-07-13
I don't see how he's a threat to centrism - doesn't he boost it?
He collected a tonne of data on violence and general societal badness and showed that the world's is generally getting better, not worse. That's something extremists hate to hear because they need you to believe that the sky is about to collapse.
Leftists hate him because he showed rape has gone down and is much less common today, and that there's a massive hysteria surrounding it and it's alleged causes (like "rape is about power not sex." Which was accepted uncritically in academic circles despite there being no evidence for it). Too he showed that non-state societies are far more violent than state societies. Leftists hate hearing this because "muh noble peaceful savages."
I guess rightists might hate him because he showed that violent crime and homicide are also down too.
1 watermark002 2019-07-13
It was a popular science book, his data didn't even go through peer review
1 SideFumbling 2019-07-13
By communist blowhards with 'theory', not so much evidence.
1 Plexipus 2019-07-13
So you would say he's an expert on rape 🤔
1 ButtWhole_Surfer69 2019-07-13
White male, so yeah.
1 SideFumbling 2019-07-13
Based as fuck. Based beyond reproach.
1 mltnstrk 2019-07-13
> he showed that non-state societies are far more violent than state societies
He did? Where?
1 ImHereForTheBussy 2019-07-13
Is moderate centrism the biggest threat to radical centrism?
1 Chomsky_Minaj 2019-07-13
Anything that has the effect of controlled op is controlled op.
1 Tytos_Lannister 2019-07-13
centrist purity testing certainly is
1 YHofSuburbia 2019-07-13
That guy in the middle in the picture... LMAO
1 haulingtaters 2019-07-13
Physicists all look like perverts
1 PM_ME_UR_RARE_PUPPER 2019-07-13
You mean Lawrence "Incest is ok as long as you use contraception" Krauss?
1 Coonass_alt 2019-07-13
30 seconds of reading that dudes twitter and i already wanna puke.
1 newcomer_ts 2019-07-13
The thread is filled with dramatards brushing off suggestions of minimum moral behaviour with
lmao the cope is real
1 LittleBittyBigJohn 2019-07-13
The people in the replies complaining about cancel culture are the real warriors. He's not getting heat for saying the n word in 1978, he's implicated in a global pedophile ring that raped children on a private island lmao
1 Doctor-Pavel 2019-07-13
Ass
1 -9069x- 2019-07-13
this is nice comment
1 watermark002 2019-07-13
Nice
1 DeliciousPaste 2019-07-13
Epstein, Pinker, Dershowitz... what do they all have in common? These shifty sneaky dangerous mayos really need to be stopped
1 Clean_lt_Up_Jannie 2019-07-13
Literally pizzashill
1 zergling_Lester 2019-07-13
Emotiondrivencels fragility 101 lmao
1 watermark002 2019-07-13
I always knew Pinker was a pedo somehow
1 DrunkDeity 2019-07-13
Imagine if Epstein starts mentioning also some of the British Tory Party members. I don't know what is it about rich men that love children so much.
1 GaysianSupremacist 2019-07-13
How and why?
1 MajorLeagueSwagdOut 2019-07-13
https://i.warosu.org/data/lit/img/0107/49/1519454043412.png
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Anglo intellectualism, not even once.