RE: Peterson's 12 Rules For Life, have you heard of this?
September 1, 2018 at 2:57 pm
(This post was last modified: September 1, 2018 at 3:07 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
That Peterson manages to talk about other things isn't much of a pass on those moments when he decides to spread conspiracy theories about cyrpto marxists trying to kill free speech dead (they aren't) or that white privilege is a non thing (it is), or that lobsters make cogent comment of social hierarchies vis-a-vis gender and race gaps (they don't) or that the painful anxieties felt by a subset of young white men should lead to a softening of anyone's stance or language on race or gender issues (fuck em).
It's not his filler that's a problem, except insomuch as this filler is part of the legitimizing device of his internet persona. That someone might say some given thing in a softer way does not mean that the idea is qualitatively different than the vulgar and overt things that we've long since pushed to the fringes of acceptability, nor..for that matter...does a person have to be a hood wearing klansman to transport those ideas from one place to the next.
That Peterson's missteps are entirely predictable in light of his traditionalist bent isn't something that escapes a critical reading (or his contemporaries) and insomuch as conservative ideology has been coopted by white supremacy or the normalization of white supremacy he will be invariably forced to make excuses for it regardless of whether he, personally..is a racist or not.
Which he eagerly does.
(even the seemingly innocuous comment above misses the mark so completely a person might wonder how a smart guy could fuck the pooch so hard)
It's not his filler that's a problem, except insomuch as this filler is part of the legitimizing device of his internet persona. That someone might say some given thing in a softer way does not mean that the idea is qualitatively different than the vulgar and overt things that we've long since pushed to the fringes of acceptability, nor..for that matter...does a person have to be a hood wearing klansman to transport those ideas from one place to the next.
That Peterson's missteps are entirely predictable in light of his traditionalist bent isn't something that escapes a critical reading (or his contemporaries) and insomuch as conservative ideology has been coopted by white supremacy or the normalization of white supremacy he will be invariably forced to make excuses for it regardless of whether he, personally..is a racist or not.
Which he eagerly does.
(even the seemingly innocuous comment above misses the mark so completely a person might wonder how a smart guy could fuck the pooch so hard)
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