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

[bennyboy]

For example..the phrase "I don't like identity politics" - has become a euphemism for ones discomfort in discussions of racial discrimination or gender inequality....because of a feeling that one is constantly being blamed for those things.  Now, you can tell me I'm wrong and that I'm full of shit but...this thread exists and you've laid your heart bare on that count multiple times.

I don't need euphemisms. If I decide I don't like black people in general, that'll be the title of my next thread I promise.

I currently admire two black people I've recently worked with, and they are both from Canada. So maybe it isn't black people that are so freaking annoying-- maybe it's Americans that are annoying, responsibility-dodging bitches, or college kids or something-- or that American black people have a chip on their shoulder, and they think I'm a good enough proxy for whatever the fuck YOU assholes did to them that they're justified in unloading on me.

On a more general note, to widen the lens... let's take a dim view of identity politics as you see them.  The effect is that some uninformed asshole might complain about racism they may or may not have experienced in the past, to a person who has no obvious (or actual) connection to that in the present.  That's a thing.  It happens.  OTOH, the white male fright industry, as exemplified by talking heads like Peterson..has gifted a Trump presidency and resurgent global nativist fascism to the world.

On balance....I'll take the assholes screaming at randos all day..erry day.

You?

I don't blame Trump tbh. He's a fucking orangutan, and has really never been anything but, at least not since he was a rich young democrat. I blame the many millions who voted for him, and even more than that, the party that thought a lizard in a pant suit was going to have enough charisma to beat at TV star on TV.

As for the false dilemma, I'll take column "C" please-- I want to live my life, and for people around me to act reasonably predictably; and most of all, I don't want their stupid fucking orientations and dogma to interfere with my ability to have goals that matter and follow through on them.