RE: Peterson's 12 Rules For Life, have you heard of this?
August 17, 2018 at 7:12 am
(This post was last modified: August 17, 2018 at 7:15 am by The Grand Nudger.)
(August 17, 2018 at 7:07 am)bennyboy Wrote: That being said-- I personally still hate the PC left, I still think that socially, if not in government, there is a real fight to dogmatize identity politics in a way that disgusts me. So while my position on Peterson is now more informed, my position on the PC left is unlikely ever to change.-and if your view of the pc left is as fundamentally wrong as your view of peterson was...? If you, for example..are the person engaged in identity politics, despite thinking that you hate it...?
And just to distinguish what I mean by PC left, I should describe those leftist opinions which I fully share:
-I'm pro-choice, and pretty rabidly so.
-I'm for equal rights for all, so long as they are in good standing with the social contract themselves
-I believe in basic income, welfare, and free or affordable health care for all
-fuck Trump and the majority of Republicans
As for ideas I dislike:
-my opinion is irrelevant because of my demographic identity
-I should expect to tolerate a certain degree of insult or abuse due to the hardships of others, which constitutes a reasonable expression of frustration if coming from people of certain demographics, but must never insult or abuse people of certain demographic identities because my elevated level of privilege
-I have to use euphemisms: words like "differently abled" when someone is handicapped. If you want to say someone is handicapped, I feel you should just say so. If you want to refer to him, try using a name: "I saw John yesterday."
-I DO agree with Peterson about equality of outcome. I think an employer should pay whoever they want whatever they want, and if someone thinks they are undervalued, they should fight for a raise or leave.
Are those things you just mentioned actually leftist ideology, or do they represent something in your head, something whipped up by people like peterson? Something confirmed by shitty life experiences..which are..in all likelihood, also informed to some extent by the very contentions they now support in your mind?
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