Peterson's 12 Rules for Life v2.0-- actual book discussion

[bennyboy]

You are telling white people to accept unequal racist policies because they are oppressors and they have it coming to them, no?

That's clearly a caricature mischaracterization of what I said. I can't make you see anything if you're that blind.

Hmmmm. You seem to be doing quite the tap-dance right now. Did you or did you not say that white people are privileged, and that for this reason it was not possible for other groups to be racist toward white people?

So. . . are you ready to accept that all citizens should be accorded the exact same privileges and protections without regard to the color of their skin, or do you want to keep being racist?

I'm totally ready. But are the powers that be ready? Is the current system, tainted by racism and sexism, fit to get this ready?
I chuckle everytime you label me a racist for all the wrong reasons. I don't have a problem being called out for saying something legitimately racist. But it's so hard to take "reverse racism" seriously, because it's nothing more than an expression of white person's persecution complex. White people are not victims of institutional racism, as much as you would like it to be (just to fit your narrative). Even if they're not all privileged in the exact same ways.

Why do you keep saying "reverse racism" in quotes, when nobody is using that term but you? There's racism, and it's wrong. Predicating beliefs, comments or actions based on the perceived race of another is wrong.

Your special pleading to allow some racism as merited and justified, but other racism as institutional and wrong, is pointless. Repeat after me: "Racism is bad." That's all we need to say.

Read the title of the thread, bud.

Yes, I can read the title. What about it?

I already said I'm happy to discuss the contents of the book. I don't have to read a whole book to do that, however.

Well, let us know what parts, specifically, you've read for yourself, and what you think about them and why. Then I will welcome you back to the thread.

Until then, I will say that I find you to be quite racist, and unrepentently so, and that it has been quite unpleasant attempting to hold a discourse with you. Unless you are willing to say that all citizens should be extended the same privileges and protections, without regard to skin color, then I have little else to say to you.