Episode Transcript: #1073 - Steven Pinker
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And we're live first of all Steve, thank you very much for doing this. I really appreciate it
Oh, thank you for having me. I've been a big fan of your work for a long time and you you bring up some really fascinating subjects
and we were talking right before the podcast about
Social media and how weird it is that you got lumped in with the alt-right for a comment saying
something along the lines of
That you find what was the exact quote something along highly intelligent people seemed to which is not
Saying they're good people. No, that's right. And I think a lot of people who are
ignorant of the alt-right
equate them with the the skinheads and the neo-nazis carrying the tiki torches
Yes, but when I was referring strictly to the alt-right from its origin in internet discussion groups, right?
And I you know, I know some of them some of them are former students and some of them are highly intelligent and
highly read so
But but that's not what people often think of when they think of the alt-right and that's why I was referring to
I said, you know people in tech there's some people in universities to stay undercover and I was
Made some remarks on how to starve that movement not how to feed it
But so many people jumped on it as if you were endorsing the alt-right
It was what was the exact quote you were just basically saying something along lines of there's a lot of intelligent people that are involved in this
Well, it wasn't so much that it was also that that because of the