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So many spiteful character assassinations right now. Don't do that. When you disagree really strongly with someone on something you think is very important, this is the time to be particularly charitable about their character and intentions & stress what you can agree on.
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Replying to @HPluckrose
I couldn't finish the article. I'm so tired of snide, smug, pseudo-intellectual attacks on Peterson and particularly tired of criticism of fans of his, of which I'm firmly one.
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Replying to @Soulstorm99
I am not one but the character assassinations won't help. We need to say what ideas we disagree with and why. Sam Harris did well with that and I think Pinker will too when they talk.
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Replying to @HPluckrose
I think a lot of the trash aimed at Peterson is based on resentment at his success which has come about by a rather random series of events. He's not infallible and I don't always agree with him, but he doesn't deserve this snide vitriol.
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Replying to @Soulstorm99
But 'You're just jealous' is akin to 'You're only in it for the money' and is never helpful. As soon as you dismiss someone as insincere & ill-motivated, you end the conversation. We need to be able to talk about the ideas.
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Replying to @HPluckrose
Yep. I completely agree. Harris and a few others apart, few seem willing to openly debate him, especially on his criticisms of the neo-Marxist post-modernist elements of the far-left, and instead attempt to label him as an alt-right Nazi. I wonder why...
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Take people as they are. Reasonable criticisms of Peterson's understanding of postmodernism and conflation of it with Marxism exist. So do far-left loons who call everyone who disagrees with them alt-right Nazis.
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Replying to @HPluckrose
Sadly it's the loons on both sides of the divide that are the loudest, to the detriment of the reasoned being heard.
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