2) A belief that inequality is the natural state of things, and that attempts to alter it are misguided violations of that natural hierarchy, is the defining trait of Social Dominance Orientation (SDO) personalities. http://web.bvu.edu/faculty/goodfriend/documents/surveys/Social%20Dominance%20Orientation%20Scale/Social%20dominance%20orientation-A%20personality%20variable%20predictiong%20social%20and%20political%20attitudes.pdf …
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3) SDOs are essentially narcissists on steroids. We have one as president.https://www.newscientist.com/article/2151060-narcissists-arent-very-conservative-but-believe-in-inequality/ …
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4) They're closely associated with Right Wing Authoritarians, because SDOs are basically designed to rule over RWAs, who form their eager and angry authortiarian armies. Robert Altemeyer explored this is in his book "The Authoritarians." https://www.theauthoritarians.org/
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5) Here's how Altemeyer describes SDOs and their view of equality. It's almost as though he just straight-up predicted Peterson's script.pic.twitter.com/DARTPPBLrQ
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6) A last note: An obsession with "intense competition for quality living space and reproductive opportunity" was the hallmark of a book I know of. It called this competition "lebensraum."
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The astronomy comparison here is the most mind-numbingly ridiculous thing I've ever heard. "Don't like trickle-down economics, lib? Ever heard of a little thing called THE SUN?"
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You know, it's never occurred to me that the Earth's failure to undergo hydrogen fusion is a form of dispossession.

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Jesus...he's basically just plagiarizing social Darwinists from 100 years ago.
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at least Social Darwinists didn't rope in non-living objects!
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By his own account, Lobster Moron was INVITED to publish this trash in a Penguin edition. Something's really screwed up. https://www.patreon.com/posts/gulag-19010847 …
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really? are they hoping to get the Peterson fanbois to read it? I read The Gulag Archipelago when I was 16, not long after it came out in English. No need to have a completely unqualified hack write an intro then.
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