What’s So Dangerous About Jordan Peterson?
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What’s So Dangerous About Jordan Peterson?
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#2Surprisingly well written and balanced article in today's world of demonizing those we disagree with and deifying those we agree with. Something increasingly lost in the noise is that in the end we're all just people -- something that this article emphasizes.
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#3This is the first time I've heard of Booger McBoogerson, be sounds like the flip-side of everything he whinges about. I choose to not use his preferred proper noun.
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#4Below is a very good related article about the "intellectual dark web" consisting of academics like Peterson who are being driven out of the academy by orthodoxy and instead work through podcasts, Youtube, Patreon, etc
http://conatusnews.com/rise-intellectual-dark-web/
edit:
I made a thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16189120
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#5In an environment where non-progressives are shunned, he refrains from shunning them.
Where non-progressives are demonized, he dispels the myth that non-progressives deserve to be demonized.
And so forth -- we are en an environment where progressives are increasingly assertive and increasingly hostile to non-progressives, for whatever reason.
We can wax poetic about the quality of his zealots' character until the cows come home but it doesn't address the fact that people will always seek an icon to revolve around. The only solution to such a situation, like insurgencies in war-zones, is de-escalation and re-integration (of militant progressives and social conservatives into a cohesive society where they both achieve political representation and fairness in the eyes of the law).
Unfortunately modern-day progressives (regressives) have no interest in this and as such social conservatives will continue to gravitate towards those that they don't fully understand but nevertheless find appealing.
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#6This is the first time I've heard of Booger McBoogerson, be sounds like the flip-side of everything he whinges about. I choose to not use his preferred proper noun.
And you have every right not to.
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#7The article mentions the first interview Sam Harris did with Jordan Peterson. It appeared frustrating for both parties because they got caught up in definitions of words, etc. Still, it was civil so they parted and agreed to talk again. Harris says, "I’d received more listener requests for him than for Neil deGrasse Tyson, Richard Dawkins, Steven Pinker, Edward Snowden—or, indeed, any other person on earth."[0]
Notably, but not in the article, Harris interviewed Peterson again, two months later.[1]
[0] https://samharris.org/speaking-of-truth-with-jordan-b-peters...
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#8It’s worth pointing out that Peterson is actually not against using a variety of gender pronouns per se. So many people get this wrong.
He is against being compelled to use a variety of gender pronouns by legislation which is internally inconsistent, scientifically inaccurate, and additionally lacks clarity by punting process and standards to the Ontario human rights commission which can change their process and definitions without involvement from an elected legislature.
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#9In an environment where non-progressives are shunned, he refrains from shunning them. Where non-progressives are demonized, he dispels the myth that non-progressives deserve to be demonized. And so forth -- we are en an environment where progressives are increasingly assertive and increasingly hostile to non-progressives, for whatever reason. We can wax poetic about the quality of his zealots' character until the cow…
progressives have been shunned and demonized for so much longer. What did you expect would happen?
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#10His interview with Camille Paglia is a gem.