idealistic liberal garbage.

The world is indeed getting better all the time. Now you must excuse me. I have a very important meeting with Bubba "Heinrich" Evil who - of course - is the CEO of EvilCorp. He is responsible for the majority of my funding and my groundbreaking human biodiversity research which is leading to some surprising results. Mr. Evil is very enthusiastic.

He is just straight up a eugenicist that couches it in reactionary liberal optimism

Wasn't alt right a creation of the liberal media so as to make incels feel better about being pieces of shit to everyone?

The initial purpose of evolutionary psych was to find the reasons humans would evolve mental illnesses with the intent of creating better treatment. For example, Bipolar Disorder may have evolved in areas where humans had limited time outside each season. So bipolar people would have only a few months to do a year's worth of work stockpiling food and firewood. Then they'd be cooped up somewhere safe for months while it snowed and dropped below freezing.

It would make sense, then, if they had bursts of mania followed by bouts of depression. Manic episodes to DO ALL OF THE THINGS NON-STOP CAN'T STOP WON'T STOP and then depressive episodes to increase sleep time and suppress their appetite. Fast forward tens of thousands of years where humans can stay indoors or outdoors all year round. Bipolar conditions that used to be evolutionary necessities are more like vestigial organs, thus causing people distress.

Of course, evolutionary psychology was immediately hijacked by racist eugenicists to do phrenology.

The first two paragraphs alone seem pretty damning to me and 100% on brand for Pinker. It's just coincidental but the term "human biodiversity" sounds like something he would say.

The Harvard psychologist and bestselling author Steven Pinker appeared on the podcast of Aporia, an outlet whose owners advocate for a revival of race science and have spoken of seeking “legitimation by association” by platforming more mainstream figures.

The appearance underlines past incidents in which Pinker has encountered criticism for his association with advocates of so-called “human biodiversity”, which other academics have called a “rebranding” of racial genetic essentialism and scientific racism.

He believes that Ashkenazi Jews are genetically superior to other races if that helps clear anything up

Are you talking about his associations with Epstein, or his associations with eugenicists. Because in both cases, as we know, if there are 9 fascists and 1 liberal sitting at a table, there are 10 fascists sitting at a table.

Fuck that.

Friends with a white supremacist? Guilty of being perfectly comfortable with white supremacism.

Bring back ostracism.