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SIO110: No, Steven Pinker Isn't Alt-Right (but he's still wrong...)

Serious Inquiries Only

Thomas Smith

News, News Commentary, Politics

4.61.1K Ratings

🗓️ 11 January 2018

⏱️ 57 minutes

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*I mention Eiynah as the one who sent me the video. I just want to emphasize she had the full context and I didn't mean to imply she was spreading the fake news version without thinking. She has a great thread on it here. Recently, an edited video circulated and caused an uproar among liberals. It features Steven Pinker seeming to praise the intelligence of the alt-right and asserting that there are certain "truths" to be found there. Is there more to the story? Always. But it doesn't mean he isn't still wrong about stuff. I talk about that video and a few others of his that I've analyzed, including an incredibly frustrating one called "Why Do Progressives Hate Progress?" (this video features absolutely zero examples of progressives hating progress.) Full Redpill Video; Free Speech Video; Progressives Hate Progress Video; PZ Myers Post; Quora Article on Larry Summers; Pinker's Self Confessed Political Leanings; Shaun King on Why US Isn't the Best; US Life Expectancy Down; How Liberal Are Professors; BREW CITY BENEFIT!! Leave Thomas a voicemail! (916) 750-4746, remember short and to the point! Support the show at seriouspod.com/support! Follow us on Twitter: @seriouspod Facebook:  https://www.facebook.com/seriouspod For comments, email thomas@seriouspod.com Direct Download

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0:00.0

You're listening to serious inquiries only. Oh, Hello and welcome to serious inquiries only this is episode 110 I'm your host Thomas Smith

0:34.7

well let me take you through my thought process for today's episode I had mentioned on

0:39.8

Facebook and other places that I had planned on talking about the book Fire and Fury because I grabbed it on audible and was listening to it.

0:49.0

But you know, after I said that, I heard like every podcast in the world that I listen to talk about it.

0:57.4

And I kind of feel like it's already been covered.

1:01.1

So I'll leave it open.

1:02.1

I'm a little over halfway through the book. I'm still going through it. It's interesting. I like reading it. But what I had planned to do was hit on some of the criticism of it and the facts that might be wrong hit on why people don't

1:16.8

like this Michael Wolf guy I see people reference it but I I don't ever see

1:21.0

specific so I was going to look into that so that's what I had thought of doing for an episode. I'm not going to do that today because I think we might kind of be over it in terms of this book. I think it's maybe been covered but I throw it out there because if you

1:35.7

want me to do that feel free to shoot me a message or email. I could do that next

1:39.0

Thursday but if not I might just let that one pass by and then my next thought so I had another idea my next thought was the whole Oprah thing

1:48.2

happened and then I saw that Hassan piker guy

1:51.8

tweet something like I would vote for Oprah over Joe Biden and I

1:56.6

responded and I quoted it and I thought that was insane I mean the last thing we

2:02.4

need is another person with no leadership or political experience and by the way I don't hate Oprah or anything but if you look into her history she's has a lot of really suspect

2:15.9

decision-making and people that she promoted and woo and all that and I was

2:20.6

thinking okay maybe this is something I need to talk about.

2:23.0

And then I was pretty heartened by seeing virtually everyone in my circles,

2:28.0

and liberal circles and Facebook and social media,

2:30.0

pretty much everyone that I am friends with and who I listen to saying nah.

2:36.4

So I don't think I need to cover that.

2:38.9

It seems as though virtually everybody in my circles the consensus seems to be let's not do that and

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