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

[bennyboy]

Still schlepping a parody of the pc position as a justification for your white victimization complex.  

You're the person associating yourself with racists, Benny.  Own it.  Personal responsibility and all that.  If you say the shit racists say to the same effect that racists employ it, you're going to be categorized as a racist.  You're putting in the work.  If you're not a racist, then you need to figure out how you ended up putting that work in and how you can -stop- convincing people that you're a racist, going forward.

If it matters to you at all, ofc...and if it doesn't, hell, own that too.

I'm perfectly fine with being called racist, and have already called myself so, and I believe that any person who claims NOT to differentiate in some way among races is either a saint or a liar, with the latter being infinitely more likley.  I do, in fact, believe that there may be fundamental differences between the races.  I really do believe that Asians are the smartest, and that black people are the most athletically gifted.  For many, simply acknowledging that there might be any difference at all is enough for them to go off on a triggered rant.  But I consider that racist, too-- white guilt, with a burning desire to show that one is not representative of the villainized majority, is ALSO racism.  The idea that black people, and there are many millions of them, need some douche with his Starbucks satchel to stand up at a dinner party talking about cultural appropriation or whatever, is patently racist.  Who the fuck is HE that they need HIS help?  However well-intentioned, it implies that he thinks they are beneath him-- his individual gesture is in his mind a magnanimous one, since as a special snowflake, his opinion is super-duper-important.

But let me say that there's no particular demographic that if they showed up at my birthday party, I'd be upset or disappointed.  If a black guy sat on the same sofa as me, I would feel equally as uncomfortable as I would feel when I met any other stranger. And if I was ever lucky enough to have a full PC Left black person and a full card-carrying alt-right person show up, I'd hope I had extra popcorn available.

But do you know what I think would happen?  Put in an environment like that, in which they were both guests, I think they would almost for sure treat each other civilly.  Neither would want to stand out as a nutjob-- they would see they were in civilized company, and would behave accordingly. Because one thing, in my view, that the noisiest in the fringe need is numbers-- probably they are classic bullies, whose rage is an expression of insecurity. (As you've quite often said with regards to the alt-right, but which I think likely applies to the more hardcore among the PC Left as well).


That's what I would hope for society-- that those who will surrender completely to tribal instinct, who would most easily get triggered into an irrational rage, no matter how good their intentions or strong their positions, will be drowned out by a more moderate majority who will identify social problems and accept progressive improvements in society over time.