Before this furore, another academic “freedom fighter” had fallen to earth and was kicking up a storm. Canadian professor Jordan Peterson, handsome, incisive and enemy of progressives, got himself a fellowship at Cambridge University. This best-selling author of regressive tomes gets his fans worked up over “unfair” discrimination, propagates the idea that white privilege is a “Marxist lie”, and had a happy pic taken with a man from New Zealand whose T-shirt displayed the words, “I am a Proud Islamaphobe”.
Cambridge University withdrew his fellowship, suggesting that Peterson did not “uphold our principals”, and the messiah of masculinity, mightily dismayed, is talking about it relentlessly.
Jordan Peterson had hoped to research at the University of Cambridge
Canadian professor Jordan Peterson.
By the weekend another bloke had joined this gallery of the peeved. And it’s Bret Easton Ellis, American lit’s bad boy, now turned into a sad mass of resentment. His new book, White, is a polemic against contemporary life, especially social media. Lacking self-awareness, he bangs on and on, just like those sleepless, hopeless blokes who tweet rubbish all night.
He is furious that gay jokes are “banned”, that millennials are weak and weepy, that Orwellian censors are everywhere, that a female friend thought he was horribly wrong to criticise the “aesthetics” of Black Lives Matter. (Sir, did you want the bodies presented like art objects?) What he hates most is “self-victimisation”. And yet, like other unreconstructed cultural dinosaurs, he rants hysterically about the changed world where men like him can’t walk tall any more; in which they are victims.
These free speech fundamentalists, it seems, can’t live by the credo. Their ideas are now more assertively challenged. As natural born elitists, they find that disorienting and awfully hard.
Shall we call them snowflakes? Or, better, help them understand that they no longer dominate the world of ideas, and really should stop acting like spoilt, entitled, intellectual aristocrats.
Whirly says, dam straight!
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Your Lord knows very well what is in your heart. Your soul suffices this day as a reckoner against you. I need no witnesses. You do not listen to your soul, but listen instead to your anger and your rage.
__________________ Chicken Boo, what's the matter with you? You don't act like the other chickens do. You wear a disguise to look like human guys, but you're not a man you're a Chicken Boo.
I read the entire article. Putinbot, I demand my time back. That commentary offered nothing insightful, and it looks like her knowledge of Dr. Peterson stems from clips she saw on twitter.
Her title, "on the right, not on the left", is evidence of her ignorance. A decade ago, Dr. Peterson would have been viewed as left-leaning tbh. It's a sliding scale, and using it to categorize people, is lazy and intellectually dishonest.
__________________ Chicken Boo, what's the matter with you? You don't act like the other chickens do. You wear a disguise to look like human guys, but you're not a man you're a Chicken Boo.
My dude, just because you say someone took shit out of context or is misrepresenting beliefs doesn't mean it actually is. You ahve to actually show it's out of context.
Example: Peterson explicitly says society needs people to do what higher authority tells them
You: No he didn't!!!!!!!!! You're a depressed edgelrd.
If you're too lazy to backup what you say, what's the point of saying shit?
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