InevitableSwing [none/use name]@hexbear.net to chapotraphouse@hexbear.netEnglish · 1 month agoHarvard author Steven Pinker appears on podcast linked to scientific racism. Psychologist and writer’s appearance on Aporia condemned for helping to normalise ‘dangerous, discredited ideas’.www.theguardian.comexternal-linkmessage-square24fedilinkarrow-up186arrow-down10 cross-posted to: us_news@lemmygrad.mlscience@lemmy.world
arrow-up186arrow-down1external-linkHarvard author Steven Pinker appears on podcast linked to scientific racism. Psychologist and writer’s appearance on Aporia condemned for helping to normalise ‘dangerous, discredited ideas’.www.theguardian.comInevitableSwing [none/use name]@hexbear.net to chapotraphouse@hexbear.netEnglish · 1 month agomessage-square24fedilink cross-posted to: us_news@lemmygrad.mlscience@lemmy.world
minus-squareIlixtze@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up29·1 month agoI thought this guy has always been known to be Alt right adjacent; One of the little pseudo intellectual figureheads the evolutionary psychology goons love to quote.
minus-squareihaveibs [he/him]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up24·1 month agoHe is just straight up a eugenicist that couches it in reactionary liberal optimism
minus-squarekrolden@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·edit-21 month agoWasn’t alt right a creation of the liberal media so as to make incels feel better about being pieces of shit to everyone?
I thought this guy has always been known to be Alt right adjacent; One of the little pseudo intellectual figureheads the evolutionary psychology goons love to quote.
He is just straight up a eugenicist that couches it in reactionary liberal optimism
Wasn’t alt right a creation of the liberal media so as to make incels feel better about being pieces of shit to everyone?