I've finally gotten around to watching some Jordan Peterson, after seeing someone calling for his 'followers' to be shot. This is an eloquent, rational man, and I've seen a lot of strong evidence that his detractors are a bunch of murderous loons.
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When someone as mild as Peterson is considered to be too controversial, we have a broken politics, and most significantly a broken left. Soon we will have a broken society. The result, sooner or later, one way or another, is going to be a reboot back to more traditional society.
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Replying to @ColumPaget
on the one hand, he has basic theory of mind about his political opponents and advocates good practices like "first put your house in order" on the other hand, "enforce monogamy", "gee does casual sex necessitate government tyranny" stating these calmly doesn't make them "mild"
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He didn't really say 'enforce monogamy' though, from what I recall, he said the reason why societies often do that is to prevent a few males monopolizing all the females. I don't think that's a contraversial statement.
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Jordan B PetersonVerified account @jordanbpetersonFurthermore, anyone motivated by the NY Times to assume that what I meant by "enforced monogamy" was anything other than social convention favoring stable pair bonding can think whatever they want, as they no doubt will anyway... https://twitter.com/jordanbpeterson/status/998087424814256128 …2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
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well, yes, but that is how societies function, and it's preferable to tribalist polygamy, where very few males monopolize all the females. I understood his point was that the reason societies do this is to prevent the later situation. Now, I understand he went on to say...
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i like how you just breeze past the part where we abrogate the freedom of every single woman because "oh that's just what societies need to function"
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