RE: Peterson's 12 Rules For Life, have you heard of this?
September 11, 2018 at 6:58 am
(This post was last modified: September 11, 2018 at 7:14 am by The Grand Nudger.)
(September 11, 2018 at 12:49 am)bennyboy Wrote:The idea that you are just broaching taboo topics is...in point of fact, a huge part of the normalizing script, as the many links you've been given on the subject go to great lengths to point out and debunk.(September 10, 2018 at 11:00 pm)Rev. Rye Wrote: A position I share, but, honestly, throughout the past 82 pages of this thread, you've shown you're edging towards the latter.
I can see that you have that perception. Is it because I'm broaching taboo subjects, or is it because of the policies which I've extrapolated from them? I'm fairly certain that my policy positions fall well on the left side of the spectrum.
Quote:Is it sufficient that I act in accordance with the left to establish myself as left, or is it necessary also think and feel in particular ways? And if I don't. . . should I pretend?The disaffected left has become a prime target for this narrative, notably, through popular skeptic podcasts which uncritically gave a voice to the rebranding of an old mistake as they competed with each other for hits and subs....and even more specifically, by ingratiating itself to people who have a skewed idea of free speech and it's status as imperiled. That's category number one. The abrogation of rights.
It is possible for a person to affirm the normalizing language of white supremacy without being an out and out white supremacist.
Most of the people who do so do not identify as alt right.
A growing number of the people who do so come from the left.
Some unknown portion abhor racists and racist ideology and..because of this very fact..rankle at the suggestion that they might have come down with a bad case of white anxiety -because they're not racists, godamnit!......
Quote:I choose not to. I will examine whatever positions seem right to me. It seems right to me that the black population in the States is in dire condition, and that it's not exclusively due to racist oppression. It's TRACED ultimately to slavery, for sure, but unless you want to completely disregard the agency of black people to act on their own behalf or to express their own values in their behavior, then it's not only the views of white supremacists that need to be cleaned up.There are many reasons for the dire condition of everyone in the lower socioeconomic rungs of the US...but institutional and societal racism (not in some distant slaving past - today) is a significant factor for the african american population in addition to all of that. Minimizing this is a pointless endeavor, and will mark you out as someone who's swallowed the koolaid on that issue.
-Accurately- mark you out. While you may ultimately be mistaken for a racist, no one is mistaken in the fact that you've determined that fantasies of white victimization by the pc and sj and the articles of scientific racism are The Hard Truth.
After all..you're just broaching taboo topics with facts, reality is under attack by the pc left..right? Right......? Well, wrong, but you've made it clear that you believe as much regardless of whether you identify as a racist or alt right. Which is the bog standard for people fully aligned with the positions of the alt right and racists. The truly ironic thing in this, is that both the pc left and the alt right recognize this place that you're at. The only people who ever seem to be completely blindsided by it, are those residing within the demographic.
Quote:I would love, absolutely love, to hear what Khemikal's wife thinks of all this. I'm currently under the impression that the PC Left are almost entirely white, and probably mostly men. I wish I had access to more black friends who I could speak freely with about this kind of stuff.She has far less patience for the alt lite and alt right than I do. It took her a long time to acclimate to the south....and she doesn't extend the same benefit of the doubt that I do on account of being more familiar with how effortlessly racists and racist ideology moves through otherwise decent people. She's certainly not impressed with Peterson and his acolytes, while we're on the subject of my saintly wife, lol.
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