Some of Steven Pinker's fanboys took offense over my connecting Pinker to various alt-right types.
But if anything Pinker continues to confirm his connection to the alt-right, such as his most-recent promotion of alt-right Quillette. But then, Quillette, fellow promoters of "race realism" are big fans of Pinker too.
So Pinker & Lehmann promote the idea that women are intellectually inferior to men, Lehmann's Quillette, enthusiastically supported by Pinker, promotes the idea that blacks are intellectually inferior to everybody else, and McInnes (with help from "new atheists" like Sam Harris) promote the idea that Islam is worse than other religions.
Less than a year ago, Quillette's founder Claire Lehmann appeared in a video together with alt-right extremist Gavin McInnes in support of the alt-right's favorite victim James Damore.
Of course Steven Pinker is also a defender of Damore, but he'd have to be since Damore's memo is simply a regurgitation of Pinker's own evolutionary psychology theories, much like Larry Summers' speech informing women of their STEM inferiority - at a conference on women in STEM careers - was.
What Pinker and his crowd represent is the resentment of white men, most clearly demonstrated by Trump voters, whom, a study in the news today indicates, are not worried about money but instead are worried about status:
Trump support was linked to a belief that high-status groups, such as whites, Christians or men, faced more discrimination than low-status groups, like minorities, Muslims or women...
Although Quillette doesn't conspicuously support Trump, Ezra Levant, former employer of Claire Lehmann and Gavin McInnes, does. And McInnes can be seen claiming that Trump's election signaled a return to "masculinity."
The Toronto van massacre was perpetrated by a member of the mens' rights movement, apparently an "incel" who admired that other male supremacy champion, mass-murderer Elliot Rodger.
But meanwhile Claire Lehmann's buddy Gavin McInnes is trying to push the idea that the real enemy is Islam.
So Pinker & Lehmann promote the idea that women are intellectually inferior to men, Lehmann's Quillette, enthusiastically supported by Pinker, promotes the idea that blacks are intellectually inferior to everybody else, and McInnes (with help from "new atheists" like Sam Harris) promote the idea that Islam is worse than other religions.
The Trump-supporter dark triad in a nutshell.