In a relatively uninspiring listicle interview with Steven Pinker, there as this gem.
What’s currently bugging you?
The stupidification of academia in pursuit of dubious “social justice”: logical and statistical fallacies, primitive word magic, character assassination, censoring and memory holing controversial articles, rhetorical dirty tricks such as straw men and guilt by association.
He clearly thought that one through. And he's not wrong.
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