Anyone have thoughts on why passions run so high around Jordan Peterson? Seems to be an unusually polarizing figure.
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the original polarization seems to have come from Peterson being a public opponent of legislation with some ambiguous interpretation problems (the C-16 bill and the gender pronouns issue), and that this bill was supported by a VERY hyper-polarized and extreme activist faction.
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The polarization originated from the response to his opposition. He was immediately smeared and called a transphobic bigot. He reacted. Became a proxy for a larger culture war issue.
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The discourse around him now is based very heavily on what has already been said about him, which has been hyper-polarized since he originally rose to notoriety.
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Very little of the discourse is authentically engaging with his ideas, which range from interesting interpretations on existing ideas, to banal trad/con takes on personal responsibility.
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It is really a sign of the times we're living in though that saying something as self-evident as "Stalin's and Mao's regimes were responsible for megadeaths due to starvation" causes people to get upset though.
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All the deaths related to the Great Depression rest on capitalism, but somehow that doesn't get pointed out much. (And arguably those include many of the WWII deaths). We are good at seeing the sins of our enemies, but that's intellectually worthless if we can't see our own.
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it doesn't? are you sure? in my very conventional mainstream public high school history courses we studied the Great Depression in a lot of detail and it was represented as both a tragedy and an enormous policy failure that could have been prevented/mitigated.
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I certainly do not see it mentioned nearly as often in public debate as the Communist famine deaths. (Or the fools screaming Venezuela, as if it isn't just a mismanaged petro state.) Nor do I see people actually tote up the number of deaths.
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