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Re:The limitations of Steven Pinker’s optimism by taeric on Sunday February 25, 2018 @09:44PM (#16462675)
If you are trying to signal to an out crowd that Pinker is misguided, ill informed, or otherwise wrong, provide evidence.

If you are signaling to a crowd that they are right to ignore him for reasons they know, this is how you do it. With a broad grin and no effort to actually engage. :(

That is, this seems to be setting up a battle of "elites" where the call to action is to loudly decry Pinker without having to read him.

Is there more to this story than this? Was this just a particularly bad quote?

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Re:The limitations of Steven Pinker’s optimism by chickenfries on Sunday February 25, 2018 @11:08PM (#16463040)
He's trying to "signal" that he wants you to read the article that he linked, and to entice you into doing so he has picked a few quotes that sum up the author's point of view. If you disagree, perhaps you should click and find out if the article is any good...
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Re:The limitations of Steven Pinker’s optimism by taeric on Sunday February 25, 2018 @11:44PM (#16463198)
Apologies, my criticism was at the linked article. The quoted part was particularly bad. To the point that it really detracted from any point and only seems to exist for the signaling aspect.
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