Peterson's 12 Rules For Life, have you heard of this?

[bennyboy]

The right certainly could have included themselves in the effort to reduce marginalization and inequality.  They chose to court racists instead.  That's probably the lefts fault too.

Ayup.

You think I'm giving peterson..or you..shit for being white or male, rather than for being wrong in a downright idiotic and dangerous way?  That's mighty white of you, lol.

Now, why would anyone want to make this or that word illegal?  I know that hate speech laws have alot of fans in some countries..but that's not really how it's done here.  We don't make it illegal, we make it socially and professionally suicidal.  Dumb white kids...and grown white men..-are- allowed to get together and scream ethnic slurs at the top of their lungs.  There's a whole club dedicated to it, they have fun christian themed night time bbq/costume parties and bitch about how the black man and pc left are all holding them down and denying them their rightful white privilege.  That's why they have to make america great again, lol.  

How much more time am I going to waste on your ridiculous complaints before you convince me of something I find next to impossible and, even more..don't -want- to believe?  That you really did come up with all of this shit entirely by your one-sies..and it doesn't have it's origins in the propagandists screeds that it perfectly mimics...and that you really are, in fact, one of Those People™....?

Yeah, see, you have your hand over your ears.  Because I will condemn identity politics of any ideology.  I stand for the KKK even less than I stand for the PC Left, because I know they are likely to act on their ideology, and in pretty horrible ways.

Americans, apparently, have a deep-seated need to view the world through population demographics.  On the one side, you have the racist assholes who reduce their political opponents or disliked minorities to racial slurs, and real violence.  On the other side, you have stereotyping ideologues, fart-sniffing hypocrites who will likewise reduce the humanity of a collection of individuals down to a slur or to a set of euphemisms.

You know what I'm starting to think?  Maybe there's something in the drinking water there, that makes hatred and division the only social currency that matter.  Maybe Americans simply cannot get out of bed in the morning until someone has told them who to hate.

As for me-- I'm not having it. You can indict me or insult me all you want, but in the end, I will not be told that demographic divisions are anything but divisive. I will judge individuals on their merit, and I will expect people to judge me on my own merit. That you are casting increasingly explicit aspersions on my own merit is fine-- it is up to you.

But let me say this in closing, and I think it IS definitely time to close this argument: your arguments, and the way you have made them, have for me been consistent with the negative views I had of the PC left, and rather than persuading me, have demonstrated to me why politics based on the sense of self-justified righteousness of demographic division are dangerous. You can say your racist comments dismissing me or the stories I told are justified, or keep parroting "That's JUST what the alt right say. THEY don't like their opinions and experiences being discarded off-hand due to their race, either!" Well, I'm sure they agree that the sky's blue and that bacon's delicious, too.

When they do THEIR version of fart-sniffing, then I'll say the same exact things to them. I'll give examples of how racist prejudice leads to great harm. Perhaps they'll say stuff like "That's JUST what those nigger-loving commies say." And I'll say all the same stuff to them in kind: I don't care about drawing lines in the demographic sands and picking sides. There are those who will enable me to more easily follow my goals in life, and those who will impede me with political distractions and hatred. The former, I will love no matter how they identify, and the latter I will resent, no matter how right they think they are.

And with that said-- I gotta step away from this thread and go achieve something in life beyond smelling my OWN farts all day.