Jordan Peterson is best known for thinking himself a hero for refusing to use trans students' preferred gender pronouns.
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I support his right not to do that and respect him for standing up for free speech although I myself will use pronouns.
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By extension do you support his students' right to call him "ma'am" without being sanctioned for being disrespectful?
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Yes. I thought I came up with that idea. Or similar.https://twitter.com/HPluckrose/status/859890487234367489 …
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He could just as well argue that he should be allowed to make lewd remarks at his students, justified by free speech. Seems absurd.
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I don't see that. Not sharing someone else's concept of gender is not the same as making sexual comments about them.
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For sure it isn't the same, but he could make the same argument. "Laws preventing me from commenting on a student infringe my free speech"
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No. He's not arguing to be able to make comments about other people, just not to have to accept their beliefs on gender in his speech.
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Weirdly uneasy reading. Wondering if this is some nutjob, some sectarian ideas, or a caricature.
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He's very influential including among supposed sceptics and rationalists which worries me.
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People who describe themselves as sceptics seldom are sceptics when it comes to their own beliefs.
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But they still shouldn't admire religious irrationalists just because they support free speech & oppose authoritarianism.
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Sometimes you have to make common cause against greater threats.
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Of course. We can ally with anyone with liberal aims even if their beliefs are irrational and not based on evidence.
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Agreed - at least in the classical sense of liberal :)
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So much silliness.
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This guy's ostensibly deep reasoning led him to conclude that 1950s social values about gender and sexuality were perfect.
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He's very conservative and gender essentialist. Can't agree with that.
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Literally a fedora-wearing Men's Rights Activist.
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