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Finally watching some Jordan Peterson lectures to get caught up on that situation. I have some major disagreements with him:
1. His idea that "respect must be earned." No. Etiquette is the art of respecting people by default. There's nothing postmodern about it.
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2. His idea that using preferred pronouns necessarily involves a capitulation to Marxist/postmodern ideology. No—
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The idea of "basic human respect" should never be earned, it should be automatic.
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Respect needs to be earned etiquette is the art of being a pussy.
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Maybe in CoD teamspeak but not in academic settings
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etiquette is how you should treat people regardless of who they are, while respect is something we give people because of who they are.
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I truly don't understand the problem with pronouns. Do they take issue with names? "Hey, Sally." "My name's Susan, actually." "CENSORSHIP!"
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Agree. "Respect must be earned" is only a useful in regard to a skills or knowledge. Not our humanity -no need to earn being seen as people.
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Man I'm bad at tweeting. All those extraneous As and no edit function! I'm so ashamed.
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