Point being, Shapiro is an unrepentant Jewish supremacist easily as far right as Molyneux, though he pretends harder not to be.
And he's Peterson's personal friend and political ally (the latter being more important). Peterson may claim to draw a line. I don't think he does.
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He draws a line at overt Nazis. Which shows to go you that he does not understand this game.
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If the fascists really do win, Peterson will die in the second or third round of purges.
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Nah, I think he would be saved much like Wittgenstein. Too difficult to off him quietly. Problematic optics.
Unless you mean globally, in which case, yeah...
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He'll eventually burn out. I hope he returns to more academic lectures on a higher intellectual plane & has time to parse such issues as brought up here.
He's mentioned that in prep for upcoming debate w/Sam Harris, he's read *all* Harris's books. I wish I had that fortitude.
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I don’t have the fortitude to finish a Harris blog post.
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I hadn't read or heard much of Harris until his debate w/Chomsky a few years back. Noam wouldn't let Harris get beyond Bill Clinton's bombing of that pharma plant which supposedly led to deaths of 10k people b/c not getting their meds.
Harris seemed the epitome of the below.
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❝We judge others by their behavior. We judge ourselves by our intentions.❞
—Ian Percy
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Chomsky eviscerated him. People who think they're smarter than Chomsky are always wrong when they go head to head with him. Always.
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Truth. Chomsky isn’t right about everything, but his wrong opinions are still smarter than my right ones.
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he is genuinely a genius. Probably was wrong about universal grammar, but was wrong in the way a genius is wrong. ;)
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No way in hell he wasn't wrong about universal grammar, unless this whole thing operates on a substrate beyond only human language.
But then, that wasn't what he posited.
Agree on the genius part, though.