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this is y a lot of the advice needs to be mixed with “look, i’m not JUST preaching, here is my life experience as proof. i understand and empathize w where you are at”

there are also some viewpoints that can ONLY come from privilege. a lot of extremely talented artists and academics for example have parents who are extremely talented and taught them from a young age

the “i was a loser and now i’m not join my cohort so i can so you The Way” is limited in where you’ll end up. a 30 year old man in ALL the cohorts will NEVER become an 8 year old prodigy at ANYTHING

*this* i suspect why there is such hatred for individuals like peterson. he is interpreted as taking the moral high ground saying “it’s easy, just clean your room and don’t complain” for someone in real pain they understandably want to lash out at this preaching

and this becomes a problem because to hate peterson hates his entire body of work. once the decision to hate is made the brain will reject EVERYTHING he says even if it would’ve felt “right” if it was heard prior to the hate decision

the thing is... people ARE born to privilege and because of that they DO have real advantages in just overall being a better person

what makes this feel unfair is that it is also CORRELATED with race. so if u grow up in a family that doesn’t understand correlation it will feel like systemic oppression

even though many (but definitely not all) in positions of privilege are not blind and ignorant to their privilege. they literally try to help for free by giving advice (which is necessarily hamfisted bc they were born to privilege and don’t have everyone’s perspective)