Pinker says things worth listening to.

@jamescarr4662

10 ай бұрын

Free Palestine. Bet you hate that, as a Times reader and listener.

@thomaswhitelake

10 ай бұрын

@@jamescarr4662 No you're completely wrong about that James.

Pinker is a respected intellectual heavy weight. Bizarre that he even has to fight this fight. The world is going backwards :-(

I was a student in the early 1970s and students back then were loud and always demonstrating about something. Most were fashionably left-wing. Trotsky and Sartre were all the rage. It is different today. Many academics and students seem to want to deliver punishment beatings to people who don't share their views. The nastiness is contemptible.

I agree with him that he's not "defending the right from the left" but defending fundamental freedoms and common sense because despite the fact that the far left are to blame for this issue, he's not defending either political wing but defending free thinking in academics. I'm a left leaning independent and I consider the agenda of the far left as problematic as the agenda of the far right. The far left are not allies of mine when they're attacking fundamental freedoms and I know for fact that I'm not alone in that sentiment among people on the left or other left leaning independents like myself. I firmly believe that social media leads us to believe that most people are on the extreme side of whichever political spectrum they prescribe to when in reality, the vast majority of people are realistically closer to center than the extreme side of their political preference on both sides of the isle. I wish there was a way to squash the illusion that social media has created.

@bungalowjuice7225

Жыл бұрын

Yeah, I feel lost as a lefty-center guy. They do not represent me in the slightest.

@danguee1

Жыл бұрын

Absolutely. I am a moderate lefty. I have strong egalitarian, social democratic - sometimes even slightly socialistic - tendencies. And I am a 'progressive'. But this New Left I find quite deeply regressive, authoritarian and ultra-orthodox. Identity politics, CRT, reparation philosophy etc are divisive to their core. And scapegoating of many who are blameless and are not privileged.

@bungalowjuice7225

Жыл бұрын

@@danguee1 In fact, they want the old system to be kept intact. That's why the ones who owns "progressives" today did a complete 180 and wants to reintroduce racist concepts. Their theories don't work unless there's racism, so they push for it indirectly through bs stuff.

@celorfiwyn8193

4 ай бұрын

Hear hear!@@bungalowjuice7225

Respect for Harvard and Yale continues to spiral down the toilet of political correctness.

Universities should be raging ideological battlefields, not pacified occupied territories.

If it is permissible to oppose authority, then we all ought to oppose *authoritarianism* --- by which I mean intolerant NeoPuritan, NeoRacist, NeoSexist, Neo-Conversion-Therapy Regressivism.

@ChristopherRayMiller

2 ай бұрын

You will need to define what each of these terms means in your estimation.

Thank God! Truly sad to see this brand of wokeism move around the world. Sooo many examples, too many examples.

@la7dfa

Жыл бұрын

There is a balancing act between bigotry, historical racism, and being too woke. Probably it is a healthy debate and we can not all have the same opinion. The worst thing is when it creeps into politics and gets weaponized. We should not cancel anyone making a statement. E.g. comedians who kick in all directions should have the leverage to continue that. It is first when they keep on targeting a minority it becomes a problem.

Need some professors? Texas will have many non-tenured leaving.

@thomasd4738

Жыл бұрын

tenured as well

Is not Jordan Peterson required to undertake a re-education program? Is Canada becoming authoritarian?

You mean like wondering, truly wondering, not making a statement, but begging the hairy questions. Questions like at what point is wanting a sex change a form of body disphoria or dismorphia?

Lying needs to be a crime. As it causes chaos, that’s why the truth will set you free.

If you want to be seen as representing both sides then put a left ( being cancelled) example in your opening statement.

@StillAliveAndKicking_

Жыл бұрын

How about Germaine Greer, Pat Phoenix and many others. Rod Liddle is on the left, but is routinely attacked online.

Free speech does not mean that anyone owes you a podium, a megaphone or a speaking engagement.

@patavinity1262

Жыл бұрын

Firstly, that depends entirely on your definition of 'free speech'. Secondly, the active silencing of the expression of certain opinions, ideas or scientific facts is not really the same thing as denying someone a speaking engagement, wouldn't you agree? Thirdly, the point at issue here is not only the freedom of speech, but academic freedom, which in fact *does* require that a variety of ideas be listened to.

@thomasd4738

Жыл бұрын

what does that have to do with the content of the video?

@df7263

Жыл бұрын

Actually it does, you give one voice a platform but not allow another then its not balanced and not free speech. Social media needs to be inclusive, decentralised and free for all to post content. You cant have regulated free speech, its a contradiction