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

[bennyboy]

So, are you going to actually read the article and not make ad homs about it mentioning Sam Harris (an intelligent man who goes from making good points to the absolutely asinine on a fucking dime) in the first paragraph?

Really, dude?  You thinking I'm intellectually lazy at this point in the thread?  I mean. . . you can dislike my position, or (hopefully) have more sensible ideas about how to bring black people into a more equitable position in American society, but if you think I've not been doing my homework, you are pretty unobservant.

First of all, not only did I read the article (it took about 20 seconds), I also tracked some of the links FROM that article, and did my own googling on Harris' issue with this. Second, Harris isn't mentioned as an aside. It is a particular issue in Harris' life (and career, I'd say) which involved one of the most conspicuously left-leaning figures in the public arena (I mean, dude is a spiritual Buddhist and a humanist) being maligned by the PC left, leading him to shy away from social media, and which led the quoted author to write that article. Basically, Harris is a perfect example of how active demonization from the PC Left is used to shut down honest intellectual discussion. You literally couldn't provide an issue which better supports my view of the PC Left than this one.

I'm pretty sure that there's already been a thread about this, and that his interview with Joe Rogan was linked at that time, but here's a clip of him talking about the whole manufactured drama about it:





But yeah, I could very easily have said-- if you're citing Sam Harris as a racist, then you've just alienated a bunch of people on these forums, and maybe 50% of the secular liberal left.  (the 50% is a guesstimate, but I think it's likely to be a pretty big chunk). You might also want to consider that Harris and Peterson have been engaged in active debate-- remember how I keep saying that Harris is "running circles around" Peterson?

So if you stand against both Peterson AND Harris, then where does that leave Team Truth™? A house divided cannot stand, eh?

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Since we're having fun with articles, here's one about the dangers of atheism:

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/3k7jx...-alt-right

So, either atheists are horrible, horrible bigots-- a bunch of nasty white males.  OR, and this is my position, atheists are tired of dogmatic bullshit, and are unlikely to consider PC Left dogmatic bullshit a worthy substitute for religious dogmatic bullshit.



Khem, Rye, let's check that privilege.  Hands up, black women?  Anyone, anyone?  Do we even have one black person in these forums, other than Huggy74? You guys gonna talk about white privilege, and you spend your days on a forum that consists almost exclusively of white people. Why oh why are atheists so unwilling to allow black people to join these forums!?!?!? Why oh why have black people been prevented from participating in this, a thread that's almost entirely about issues of race?

Don't say that's not what's happening-- because the lack of black people clearly means that white people are actively preventing them from participating equally. . . right?