PZ Myers lies again, or maybe he's just very, very dumb:
I have now been accused of “smearing” and “distorting” Pinker’s words, and gotten all kinds of fun hate mail. Alas, nobody has been able to show where my arguments actually distort Pinker’s claims; he really does argue that “political correctness” is driving people to the alt-right, and that there are all these “facts” that Leftist Academics refuse to discuss on campus, which drives students further right when they discover that they’ve been lied to. It is a bullshit contrafactual, wrong and dishonest in every way, and the best people can do is say, “well, there’s some parts afterwards that are more nuanced, and you ignored those”. Nope, that’s irrelevant. When someone states outright lies, it doesn’t matter if later they say something else.
No, the best people can do is say "look at the news on campus, and look at what conservative groups are saying and who they're inviting to speak, you fucking dipshit". Apparently Peezus has never heard, or pretends to have never heard, of the Evergreen College brouhaha, or the Laurier scandal. He never took a look at the rising popularity of Jordan Peterson among many young people, and never asked himself why, and what it has to do with the Pronoun Wars.
Ask yourself WHY the conservative students invited Milo fucking Yannopoulos or Ben Shapiro to speak, and like them, or why the students in your own fucking university put a conservative paper in your mailbox. Pinker gave you the answers, if you bothered to stop visualizing your students as mermaids and listened to what they're talking about you'd understand that he's right.
He thinks maybe I was a leetle too aggressively in-Pinker’s-face, to put it mildly, but then I think he’s a leetle too charitable,
Quit trying to write like a kid, Myers, you're a grown ass adult, that's fucking pathetic, and not a "leetle" creepy.
If you look at the kinds of arguments Pinker often makes, they reduce to blaming the Left/Progressives/Liberals for things that the Right/Republicans/racists do. Somehow it’s always possible to make the worst things the alt-right does entirely the fault of those who oppose them, and also, he never bothers to say what we’re supposed to do instead. Encourage racists? Say kind things about them? Compromise on fundamental issues: suggest that maybe black people are only a little bit inferior rather than a lot inferior?
You fucking dishonest cunt. Pinker answered to those questions in the part of the interview which you've refused to watch: counter the alt-right narrative without denying data, like explaining differential rates of commission of crimes with differential rates of poverty. You dumbass.
No. He clearly says that the alt-right’s beliefs are the fault of the “PC” Left, which says nothing about making better arguments to oppose them, and is a falsehood. His talk was about doling out the blame to the Left, not about fighting the alt-right. If you listen to the whole 8-minute video, what you hear is Pinker first saying that you can’t voice certain facts on campus, then stating those facts (self-refutation, anyone?), then explaining that his facts are more complex than he let on,
which is what the college professors he’s blaming already do.
Is it possible to really be this stupid? In the same paragraph PeeZee says that Pinker's talk is "not about fighting the alt-right" and then he talks about how Pinker is "explaining that his facts are more complex". THAT's Pinker's strategy for fighting the alt-right, you moron!
And you have the gall of accusing Pinker of "self-contradiction" (projection, anyone? :lol: ) for saying that you can't voice certain facts WITHIN CAMPUS CULTURE, then voicing the same facts WHILE HE WAS AT AN EVENT THAT WASN'T RAN BY CAMPUS AUTHORITIES.
How did Myers get a degree in biology, or even just graduate high school? I really hope he's just playing dumb for the sake of his brain-dead Horde.