I’ve known Dawkins was a shithead for a while, but somehow I’ve missed Pinker being one as well. The fact they are trying to get help from JK Rowling shows they are much bigger pieces of shit than I originally thought.
I’ve donated to the FFRF for a while. I’ll have to wait and see how this shakes out.
Oh god, he seems to be milling about the Longtermism crowd, which believes that future (potential) people have as many rights as current people, so any theoretical gains that effect future people are worth doing, even at the expense of current ones,
Billionaires and powerful political people all are jumping on that bullshit.
I’ve known Dawkins was a shithead for a while, but somehow I’ve missed Pinker being one as well. The fact they are trying to get help from JK Rowling shows they are much bigger pieces of shit than I originally thought.
I’ve donated to the FFRF for a while. I’ll have to wait and see how this shakes out.
Pinker keeps a lower profile, but there have been a lot of questionable things he’s said in the past.
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2021/sep/28/steven-pinker-celebrity-scientist-at-the-centre-of-the-culture-wars
Oh god, he seems to be milling about the Longtermism crowd, which believes that future (potential) people have as many rights as current people, so any theoretical gains that effect future people are worth doing, even at the expense of current ones,
Billionaires and powerful political people all are jumping on that bullshit.
Ick. That one is new to me. But it makes a lot of sense.
Pinker has been the Pangloss du jour for as long as I’ve known about him, only recently replaced/supplemented by Harari.