RE: Peterson's 12 Rules For Life, have you heard of this?
August 17, 2018 at 8:40 am
(This post was last modified: August 17, 2018 at 9:07 am by The Grand Nudger.)
No need to get defensive with me. I don't doubt that you're doing just fine. I do note that you espouse inadequate and misinformed opinions.
It's okay...we all have them about something. Some of them we may be aware of..most of them we probably aren't.
For example..the phrase "I don't like identity politics" - has become a euphemism for ones discomfort in discussions of racial discrimination or gender inequality....because of a feeling that one is constantly being blamed for those things. Now, you can tell me I'm wrong and that I'm full of shit but...this thread exists and you've laid your heart bare on that count multiple times.
No amount of reassuring you that you are in fact not to blame and not being blamed..at least not by leftist ideology, can dissuade you from that terrible feeling. You may have been blamed by individuals in the past, but why do you care what those assholes think? They're wrong. Theyre not wrong in that racial discrimination and gender equality exists and is an issue that we need to address....but they're wrong in laying it at your feet..except insomuch as your response to it is to minimize it and delegitimize the subject and turn the conversation into an exposition of your white fright. If you could manage to stop doing that..they really -wouldn't- "have anything on you".
You're handing them..and me..the ammo.
On a more general note, to widen the lens... let's take a dim view of identity politics as you see them. The effect is that some uninformed asshole might complain about racism they may or may not have experienced in the past, to a person who has no obvious (or actual) connection to that in the present. That's a thing. It happens. OTOH, the white male fright industry, as exemplified by talking heads like Peterson..has gifted a Trump presidency and resurgent global nativist fascism to the world.
On balance....I'll take the assholes screaming at randos all day..erry day.
You?
It's okay...we all have them about something. Some of them we may be aware of..most of them we probably aren't.
For example..the phrase "I don't like identity politics" - has become a euphemism for ones discomfort in discussions of racial discrimination or gender inequality....because of a feeling that one is constantly being blamed for those things. Now, you can tell me I'm wrong and that I'm full of shit but...this thread exists and you've laid your heart bare on that count multiple times.
No amount of reassuring you that you are in fact not to blame and not being blamed..at least not by leftist ideology, can dissuade you from that terrible feeling. You may have been blamed by individuals in the past, but why do you care what those assholes think? They're wrong. Theyre not wrong in that racial discrimination and gender equality exists and is an issue that we need to address....but they're wrong in laying it at your feet..except insomuch as your response to it is to minimize it and delegitimize the subject and turn the conversation into an exposition of your white fright. If you could manage to stop doing that..they really -wouldn't- "have anything on you".
You're handing them..and me..the ammo.
On a more general note, to widen the lens... let's take a dim view of identity politics as you see them. The effect is that some uninformed asshole might complain about racism they may or may not have experienced in the past, to a person who has no obvious (or actual) connection to that in the present. That's a thing. It happens. OTOH, the white male fright industry, as exemplified by talking heads like Peterson..has gifted a Trump presidency and resurgent global nativist fascism to the world.
On balance....I'll take the assholes screaming at randos all day..erry day.
You?
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