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Rubbish - Pinker is exactly the person that should be protected and there's no need to 'rehabilitate him' from anything. Celebrities of various kinds interact
by jollybean 5y ago
Rubbish - Pinker is exactly the person that should be protected and there's no need to 'rehabilitate him' from anything.
Celebrities of various kinds interact with each other, that's how that works.
If you were invited to a conference and the CEO invited you on his plane because you had something interesting to say, and 10 years later we find he was a rapist, do we cancel you?
If you're going to tell me that Pinker was 'on rape island sleeping with teens girls' - then obviously that's another matter, cancel away, but as far as I know that's not the case.
This is exactly the kind of petty, toxic, vindictive posturing exemplary of bad cancel culture.
- tptacek 5y agoFunny, I can't think of that many other "celebrities" that contributed directly to Jeffrey Epstein's sweetheart sentence in 2008, which enabled him to continue trafficking and abusing minors in the ensuing decade.
- gjm11 5y agoWhat do you think Pinker should have done when Dershowitz wrote to him asking "what exactly do you think this statute means"?
- prutschman 5y agoI genuinely hope both of you continue this thread, even as I think it's unlikely that you'll come to common ground. I'm finding it extremely helpful to clarify my thoughts on this type of situation.