Re: A quick reminder that Jordan Peterson is a cunt
It's not a word I'd use, that's just a meaningless and unhelpful expletive, but his philosophy and politics is mostly right wing and will for the greater part jar with those contributing here. Our intellectual problems arise when they have opinions on matters that you actually agree with, eg, Tucker Carlson on the Ukraine war for instance, or Jordan Peterson on gender identity. I think it's better to criticise the man for what he says and thinks, at the risk of taking a few more words to do so. His political ideology is usurping what should be his and everyone's moral conscience and does him ill. He is criticising supporters of the Palestinians because he sees them in his distorted vision as yet another example of an extreme left wing "victimhood" ideology. (He's been going on about this for years) . Sorry, Mr Peterson, 10,000 dead people including thousands of children are indeed victims and for you to appear to dismiss their suffering because you see others' concerns as part of a dubious wider victimhood ideology is logically absurd, as well as morally repugnant. Palestinian supporters and marchers take action because no-one else is, whereas Israeli's suffering is never ignored or dismissed. You don't even have to understand the wider context of Israeli / Palestine history to understand the moral ambivalence and hypocrisy of what is happening right now.
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