People, 'It looks like many comments are going to support my observation' is very different to 'Any comment supports my observation.' https://twitter.com/goddoesnt/status/958418983065149441 …
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I see. It doesn't matter what people actually say very clearly and explicitly. We just mindread them & insist we know what they really mean. I'm sure you'd be fine with people doing this to you. You want a white ethnostate in which homosexuality is illegal & women have no rights
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I don't see how that's fundamentally different than what James did in the essay. He paints the audience as a monolith & interprets their motivations, then asserts that they're being duped rather than expressing a philosophical difference. So you should understand the annoyance.
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I don't think he does!
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Well, I don't think he paints them as a monolith. The piece begins by setting out the attractive and interesting features of Peterson & his approach and then looks at how this has escalated into something approaching a movement.
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It is OK to say we think those who think his approach worthwhile are mistaken. He can be criticised just like everyone else. It is fine to think people have been taken in by a wrongheaded religion, political position, set of ideas etc even if this is a philosophical difference
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OK but if you acknowledge the philosophical difference it seems to me you have a duty to engage with it on a deeper level than just assuming it's wrong, paticularly if you're attempting to occupy a position of objectivity.
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Not all essays have to be about this tho. This one isn't. Its about a phenomenon. It responds to Douglas Murray's discussion of the phenomenon. This is what James does. He wrote a book about the psychological draw of religion & used the same knowledge here.
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