Anyone have thoughts on why passions run so high around Jordan Peterson? Seems to be an unusually polarizing figure.
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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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alright, well I can't argue with your subjective experience of relative frequency of topics in the media you personally consume. have you seen anyone deny or write apologia about the Great Depression though?
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No. But nor have I seen capitalists accept the death count of the Depression and WWII Western front as accruing to them and then comparing it to the deaths of communism. Let alone accept the death counts of various famines and genocides as in India and N. America.
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I think it's a bit disingenuous to group in WW2 deaths with deaths due to economic mismanagement. These are different categories of excess deaths. The issue of genocides due to colonialism is also another serious one, but not due to capitalism specifically, and not denied.
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I'm just trying to focus the discussion here basically, instead of letting it drift off into grouping together every bad thing ever done by "The West".
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his proposal for an AI to label Marxist Pomo courses people shouldn't take because they are destroying western civ did him no favours. Calling entire disciplines worthless and calling for a boycott does not make friends.
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that's true, it was a bad idea, a lot of people told him that in public and private, and he was persuaded by the criticism and so dropped the idea.
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Yep this is a pretty good assessment!
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