Anyone have thoughts on why passions run so high around Jordan Peterson? Seems to be an unusually polarizing figure.
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Replying to @KennethFolk
that's really hard to answer in a medium like this one. at this point I'd say we're just very deep into a feedback loop of amplifying negative emotions.
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Replying to @danlistensto @KennethFolk
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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Replying to @danlistensto @KennethFolk
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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Replying to @danlistensto @KennethFolk
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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Replying to @danlistensto @KennethFolk
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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Replying to @danlistensto @KennethFolk
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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