Anyone have thoughts on why passions run so high around Jordan Peterson? Seems to be an unusually polarizing figure.
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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