# Stephen Pinker gets harassed on his birthday

**URL:** <https://discourse.peacefulscience.org/t/stephen-pinker-gets-harassed-on-his-birthday/1699>\
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**Created:** [September 18, 2018, 7:36pm UTC](https://discourse.peacefulscience.org/t/stephen-pinker-gets-harassed-on-his-birthday/1699 "2018-09-18T19:36:31Z")\
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**Author:** ![Patrick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/b2d939/32.png) [@Patrick](https://discourse.peacefulscience.org/u/Patrick)\
**Post date:** [September 18, 2018, 7:36pm UTC](https://discourse.peacefulscience.org/t/stephen-pinker-gets-harassed-on-his-birthday/1699/1 "2018-09-18T19:36:31Z")

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> **[Pinker gets harassed on his birthday](https://whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com/2018/09/18/pinker-gets-harassed-on-his-birthday/)**
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> As I mentioned in today’s Hili Dialogue, Steve Pinker was born in 1954. When I sent him birthday greetings, I had forgotten that that makes him 64, which accounted for his reply that he’…

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**Author:** ![swamidass](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.peacefulscience.org/swamidass/32/3_2.png) [@swamidass](https://discourse.peacefulscience.org/u/swamidass)\
**Post date:** [September 19, 2018, 12:34am UTC](https://discourse.peacefulscience.org/t/stephen-pinker-gets-harassed-on-his-birthday/1699/2 "2018-09-19T00:34:06Z")

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> Despite Pinker’s hyper-documentation of how the world has improved in the last several centuries, and his persuasive argument that this improvement is due largely to **reason, secularism, and science** , The Woke don’t like him. I’m not quite sure why (see a suggestion below), but they’ve attacked—as this article does—both his claim that the world has improved as well as his analysis of why it’s happened.

Jerry Coyne and I may not agree on everything or even very much, but I can go with this. Not that secularism is not atheism, especially in [A Secular-Confessional Society](https://discourse.peacefulscience.org/t/a-secular-confessional-society/1607). Maybe we might find a path towards an alliance of the reasonable.

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/uploads/peacefulscience/original/2X/6/6b7bf72453a5c60b0919b6b89a27dc18bc52382c.png) [@system](https://discourse.peacefulscience.org/u/system)\
**Post date:** [September 10, 2019, 4:36pm UTC](https://discourse.peacefulscience.org/t/stephen-pinker-gets-harassed-on-his-birthday/1699/3 "2019-09-10T16:36:16Z")

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